Four Wicked Step-Sisters

It is the gay fairytale that dare not speak its name, and parents are pissed:

A grouchy queen tells her lazy prince-son that it’s time he thought about marriage. "Very well, Mother," he replies, "I must say, though, I’ve never cared much for princesses."

And this, dear readers, is exactly the conversation a newly out gay man has with his older gay friends. That swamp of subtext aside . . .

It leads to a fictional royal gay marriage in the fanciful children’s book King & King, written and authored by Dutch collaborators Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland, and the source of a bitter battle in Lexington Massachusetts - where on March 24th at Estabrook Elementary School, Heather Kramer cracked open the colorful book and read it to her second grade class.

You just knew the Dutch were behind this. There being quite a bit of controversy surrounding the book, a subject as sensitive as this requires thoughtful, nuanced debate by learned, trusted figures of national stature.

In that spirit, I bring you the King and King controversy, as explained by the View women.

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Comments

[Jamie]

And this, dear readers, is exactly the conversation a newly out gay man has with his older gay friends.

LMFAO. Not fair, Robbie. When you put one-liners like that in a post, at least warn me to not be sipping hot coffee when I read it!