Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men

Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men by Cashorali, Peter. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780062513083.

In Fairy Tales, Peter Cashorali artfully contemporizes classic folk and fairy tales in order to give gay men stories that tell their stories. Adapting the magical and mythic language of traditional storytelling, he brilliantly addresses the life passages of gay men. From coming out and learning to trust oneself to "looksism" and looking for lasting love, middle age and mortality to AIDS, grieving, and helping others, here are new spins on tales from around the world, drawing on favorites by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, Hans Christian Andersen, Italo Calvino, and others. Witty, romantic, and wonderfully contemporary, these stories feature fairy tale staples such as fickle princes, talking animals, and inanimate objects with incredible powers, plus personal trainers, aging boy-toys, a poignant Ugly Duckling, a movie-mad Hansel, and a Rumpelstiltskin with a riddle about HIV.