Is anyone in the outsiders gay

As I sit watching the Patroits engage and my future ex-husband Rob Gronkowski makes yet another touchdown, I ponder, if only he "played on our team." Of course, he's a human being and he seems pretty direct, but I can dream.

It's a brief different when you read a book. When you acquire to know a character and there's only pages to get to recognize a character and how he relates to other characters. Really? Only pages to figure out back story, offer feelings, and hopes for the future of every free character.

So when we are left with filling in the blanks about characters, we improvise, dream, and dream.

Great grab GRONK! Sorry for that brush with reality for a moment.

When we load in those blanks and become relaxed with what we have build for them, for their "real" lives in our heads, their relationships and feelings with and for others in those brief pages, we don't like when something dilutes or scars that imagery.

If you want to keep those non-fictional lives you hold built for your fic

This has been an fascinating start to the Brand-new Year. We are counting down the days to when our world turns into The Plot Against Americaby Philip Roth while resolving to fight against fake news, hatred, and double standards. Also last October, S.E. Hinton, beloved writer of The Outsidersand one of the pioneers for Young Adult Fiction, took offense at the interpretation that Ponyboy and Johnny, her two main characters, were gay. Normally a story like this, wouldn&#;t have a sequel, but this one does. According to Twitter and multiple news sources, last week she got shirty with people asking for more LGBT charactersin her novels. S.E. Hinton, appreciate Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and Christopher Paolini, represents who I wanted to be as a teenager. I wanted to have a novel that would lead to a book deal. I craved her tight narrative. She wrote a handful of novels and quick stories, before fading from the public eye. For the most part her Twitter feed shows ordinary sense. This feels dissonant, the controversy and her feed. While authors aren&#;t necessarily nice, Hinton seemed it up to these

By Steve Weddle

This week, S.E. Hinton was asked on Twitterwhether she'd intended for two characters in her novel, The Outsiders, to be gay.

I spent years in academia, arguing that the colorless whale was Jesus, that Holden Cauliflower was a communist, that Nathaniel Hawthorne was readable. Heck, five years ago at this very site, I wrote a thing about "what the writer meant."

And I've seen many, many, many authors get beaten about on Twitter for saying things about their own writing. One sci-fi author caused trouble when he said he didn't contemplate he was very good writing women's voices. Another best-selling writer was in the middle of trouble when he was asked why he, a white guy, didn't write more about race in his novels. The creator said, well, you know, I don't have many black friends. And so on and so on. You could spend days reading the results of "author twitter controversy."

Which brings us advocate to Hinton.

As a white, cisgen middle-class dude, I had plenty of people to identify with in books. At times, it seems to me that nearly all of the books in the stores, on the shelves,

Turning &#;The Outsiders&#; Into a Musical Was a Mistake (Review)

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Remember The Outsiders? Most gay men and straight women over forty will. This is partly because Francis Ford Coppola&#;s movie featured all of the matinee hunks of the eighties: Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, and Patrick Swayze.

Another reason? S.E. Hinton&#;s young adult novel of the same entitle has been required reading in high schools around the country since it was released in Its popularity has soared over the last few years. BBC News has classified it as one of the top most formative novels of all time.

So why shouldn&#;t it be turned into a musical? Broadway has a complete season of literary adaptations currently underway. The innovative teams of The Notebook, Water for Elephants, and The Great Gatsby acquire all drawn inspiration from their best-selling book counterparts, and each have elevated hopes for Tony nominations. In the case of The Outsiders, however, the new Broadway musical treatment is not the top way to serve the story.

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