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Which of Lemony Snicket’s characters are LGBTQ+?

The subject of queer representation in children’s books remains a highly controversial matter to this day. It doesn’t stop some authors from trying or from playing with the rules. There is indeed a long tradition in classical literature of “coded queerness”, or rather of characters whose deviation from the accepted norms of sex and gender is only implied through symbols, allusions or unreliable narration.

It’s not as if the subject were taboo to Daniel Handler. The author has testified to sexual experiences with both/several genders (Link - skip to 0:52:00) and there’s a number of queer characters in his more “adult” novels: Tomas from “Adverbs”, Douglas from “The Basic Eight”, etc. How does that translate to the books he’s written under the name of Lemony Snicket?

As often in children’s literature, the matter is rather timidly present but not totally absent either. Let’s delve deeper into the subject after the cut.

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Behind the scenes photos by photographer Justin Borucki for Kerrang! magazine. New Jersey, 2004. 

“I was hired by Kerrang! magazine to follow Gerard and Ray around and revisit the making of their latest album (I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love). We visited a hospital, the bar where they played their first gig, their childhood homes (Ray’s childhood bedroom is pictured), their practice space, and a diner that they ate at a lot when making the album. Most of these images were never run or seen by the public.”

- Justin Borucki

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1. Joan of Arc, 1865, by John Everett Millais.

2. Kate Bush in Joanni

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Gerard Way’s original concept art for Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

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previously unreleased - gerard way singing superstar by the carpenters during the recording of the black parade

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These photographs were taken January 2004 in and around their hometown in New Jersey. The three images offered in this collection are part of a larger project that was commissioned to document significant landmarks associated with the recording of their debut 2002 release, “I Brought You My Bullets. You Brought Me Your Love.”

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Gerard catching a bobby pin and putting it in their mouth

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so cute

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’Hesitant Alien’ Zine - Gerard Arthur Way

‘I’ll leave you with this - When the choirboy sings - lay low. When the blood test stings -  let go. And when the mothership rings -  leave home.’

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endlessly fucked up over this. either gerard drew frank’s tattoo or gerard drew frank’s saint card with direct inspiration from frank’s tattoo

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‘my friend gerard’ UH YEAH I THINK WE KNOW

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RIOT GRRRL LEVEL TERMINAL

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Frank Iero and Gerard Way cuddling on “Yearbook 2005” on Much Music

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FRANK IERO…………………………….

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Specific category of frank and Gerard images where they look like a butchfemme lesbian couple you could run into at a shitty house party

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frank watching gerard perform cancer 2007 vs 2022

bonus for added pain: 

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Gerard Way drawing, taken by Frank Iero.