Was Anne Shirley from Green Gables a lesbian?

I'll resurrect Lucy Maud Montgomery and ask.

OP is most definitely not a kindred spirit!

[quote]Shirley married actor John Payne August 22, 1937, in Montecito, California.[5] They had a daughter, former actress Julie Payne. Her second husband was film producer and screenwriter Adrian Scott. When he was blacklisted and decided to move the family to Europe, at the last minute she wrote him a "Dear John" letter saying she'd rather stay behind and divorce him.[6] Her third husband was Charles Lederer, nephew of Marion Davies. They had a son named Daniel Lederer. Shirley had also a brief relationship with younger western star Rory Calhoun and another with French movie star Jean-Pierre Aumont.

Not that Anne Shirley, R3.

She and her bosom friend, Diana, definitely would have been lesbians today.

They were chest chums?

Wasn't Anne of Green Gables just an obvious rip-off of Annie? I mean, the red hair, the name, and the fact that the adoptive families wanted a male orphan and ended up with a girl instead?

Little Orphan Annie was written in 1924.

Anne of Green Gables was written in 1908

I never understood the appeal of Anne of Green Gables. Poorly written and boring. I guess you have to be Canadian to appreciate it.

The first book was OK, and has enormous opportunity for parody, which I am shocked no one has really capitalized on.

The rest of the series was dull as dishwater.

That Anne Shirley always referred to Diana Barry as her "bosom" friend, which I always found highly suspicious. Everyone knows that Anne got Diana drunk off of Marilla's currant wine so that Anne could have her way with Diana's bosom, and that's the real reason Mrs. Barry didn't want Anne around Diana.

Don't forget her jealous butchery when Diana got engaged.

*Bitchery! BITCHERY, DAMNIT.

She did end up fucking the hot Gilbert Blythe. Lucky cause he was damn good looking.

The Anne series was written for girls of 9 or so. So, it's no wonder adult men would not find them stimulating.

I have no idea if Anne had wet dreams about Diana.

[quote]Anne Shirley always referred to Diana Barry as her "bosom" friend

In my version of the book she says they're "Tit Friends"

Lol R17

R15, meet R14.

I always figured there had to be something more behind her being able to turn down Gil so many times. One session of us painting the outhouse together would have broken me.

R14 But she put it off for decades. The guy almost dies and she made him wait another decade after that.

Although, maybe Gil was in on it. Maybe Gil had his own preoccupations at medical school.

[quote]Little Orphan Annie was written in 1924. Anne of Green Gables was written in 1908

Actually, Annie was the one who was always getting touchy with other girls.

R15 Thank goodness, the masculinity trolls have arrived to be sure we don't discuss any subjects that haven't been pre-approved by them first. Back to stoic anti-intellectualism, anyone. Thinking is for little girls.

The Japanese love her.

We were forced to read it in school. I hated it and couldn't relate to some girl living in Prince Edward Island over 100 years ago. I remember thinking that the writing was too over the top, especially the dialogue. Plus, it was a story about an ugly orphan, what kid wants to read that.

Gil would NOT have fuck a red haired, he hated carrots of all kinds and you know Anne would not bath properly so she'd smell REALLY bad down there.

Was Shirley from [italic]What's Happening!![/italic] a lesbian?

She was a gorilla.

I hate you!! You're a sour old gossip, R11!!

The actor who played Gilbert died.

Anne Shirley was never convicted of putting strychnine in the well.

R31, do you suppose that Anne poisoned Matthew and that's how he died?

The actor that played Gilbert was gay too. Sad he's gone.

Jonathan Crombie was his name. He died of a brain hemorrhage

The writer did a great job describing the "smash" between the two girls, which is what teen same sex relationships were called in those days.

Young ladies were expected to outgrow them, as Anne and Diana did.

For R10, from Newfoundland comedy troupe Codco

In Japan, they call her "Ahn."

The bully from [italic]A Christmas Story[/italic] was in it too, and isn't he also gay?

Aunt Hetty pinged off the charts.

Then why was she called Hetty?

R39, my sister used to think she was called "Hattie" because she always wore hats like in that photo.

Also, Aunt Hetty was not a character in the Story Girl books, she was specifically created for the Avonlea TV series, I'm guessing they wanted a Marilla Cuthbert type spinster character.

So my question is -- did Hetty take over teaching the school after Anne left?

In the books, beside her relationship with Diana, Anne had a big crush on the young minister's wife.

R42, I remember that. I also remember she had a crush on her teacher Miss Muriel Stacy. Anne loved that they both wore puffed sleeves. Anne had such a fetish for puffed sleeves.

[quote]So my question is -- did Hetty take over teaching the school after Anne left?

Yes she did, but then after Anne's old teacher came back she bought a hotel and succeeded where the Golden Girls failed, as the show survived two or three years without Sarah Polley.

They had some impressive guest stars from both sides of the US/Canada border (Madeline Kahn, Ned Beatty), and they even managed to get Colleen Dewhurst right before she died and Jonathan Crombie, but not Megan Follows.

Why wouldn't Megan Follows guest star on "Avonlea"?

Meagan Follows wasn't famous enough to snub Avonlea

I never understood why someone as cool and pretty as Diana would want to even be acquainted with someone as ugly and vulgar as Anne, much less her tit pal.

[quote] The actor who played Gilbert died.

And I'm still here.

[quote] Why wouldn't Megan Follows guest star on "Avonlea"?

In the actual episode with Marilla's death (where Colleen's role was put together from outtakes and from other Sullivan productions), Gilbert returns for the funeral and says Anne has cholera or some disease that's easily treatable today.

[quote] Meagan Follows wasn't famous enough to snub Avonlea

That's why she took [italic]Facts of Life[/italic] when they offered it to her. Norman Lear actually is partly responsible for discovering her as she was cast in [italic]The Baxters[/italic] after T.A.T. sold the rights to a Canadian company.

Aww . I used to watch it when I was a child. Loved it.

Hetty

r47

LOL

Ilse in the Emily books always struck me as a power lipstick lez. She and future-politician Perry clearly had a lavender marriage of convenience.

Dean Priest was clearly into little girls: Thank God Emily shut that creepy shit down.

Only she knows.

Marilla and Matthew always seemed like depictions of what gay people’s life would have been like in rural turn of the century Canada.

Aunt Hetty was surprisingly the most robustly heterosexual character on Road to Avonlea, she had at least one new male love interest every season. Sarah Stanley was way gayer.

As a kid I loved Anne. I rewatched it as an adult and Marilla was my favorite. She is a real gem.

Jealous Butchery would have made it a whole different book. Maybe even a better one!

If Anne lived in 2020, she would most certainly be bisexual, perhaps non-binary because of gender dysphoria resulting from Marilla not wanting her because she wasn’t a boy, and she would hate Gilbert because he represented the patriarchy. Her teacher’s pets would be little latent gay boys like Paul Irving from the second book.

Also, I’m pretty sure Anne’s son Walter who got killed in World War I was a closet gay.

Remember, OP: there's a reason she went to live At the Rim of the World.