Is ponyboy gay

The classic young adult novel The Outsiders, a gritty saga about teenage gang rivalry, came out 50 years ago as of 2017, and it’s remained popular ever since. Though frequently challenged for its unvarnished depictions of aggression and teen substance violence, it’s also often on syllabuses in high university English classes.

But times have been a-changin’ since author S.E. Hinton penned the book, long beloved by misfit teens, when she herself was a high schooler in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The novel, which depicts close, caring relationships between poor and rough-around-the-edges teen boys, lends itself particularly well to interpretations of homoeroticism and submerged gay romance. Though many of Hinton’s fans are eager to read these shades of queerness in her 50-year-old story, she has repeatedly, and controversially, denied that her characters are gay ― and last week, she went so far as to claim that she was “being attacked for creature hetero.”

The Hinton-vs.-readers dustup over character orientation dates back to at least October, when she responded on Twitter to a young fan who asked outright whether Johnny Cade and Dally, two of the young toughs in the novel, were secretly in lo

Ponyboy: a novel from the POV of a trans-masc ‘hot mess express’

Ponyboy, the eponymous narrator of Eliot Duncan’s incendiary debut novel, is a hot mess express. His relationship with Baby, a lesbian designer, is complicated by the question of his transition, and his continued shots to find himself outline him into cycles of addiction, escape, and – possibly – rebirth.

As the novel moves breathlessly through space and time – from the American Midwest to Paris and Berlin – Duncan creates a fascinating central figure; as compelling to behold as they are frustrating to spend time with. Railing against everything that he feels limits how to define themselves, Ponyboy is desperate to be seen as he is, with no caveats or asterisks.

But Ponyboy is much more playful than its thorny, contradictory central character might make it seem. Through a deft command of language, Duncan is capable to create a uniquely trans story that fights for the right to be seen. Ahead of the US launch of Ponyboy in New York this month, the composer talked to Dazed about nightclubs, Kathy Acker, and if gender has grow blasé.

One of the things that really jumps out of this novel is Ponyboy himself. D

This has been an curious start to the Novel 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, favor 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 brief stories, before fading from the public eye. For the most part her Twitter feed shows frequent sense. This feels dissonant, the controversy and her feed. While authors aren’t necessarily nice, Hinton seemed it up to these points. We can’t just dismiss her deleted Twitter rant or condemn it. It requires a fu

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 white 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 creator meant."

And I've seen many, many, many authors gain beaten about on Twitter for saying things about their own writing. One sci-fi author caused trouble when he said he didn't think he was very good writing women's voices. Another best-selling composer 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 author said, well, you know, I don't include many black friends. And so on and so on. You could expend days reading the results of "author twitter controversy."

Which brings us back 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, being reviewed are books written by people like me about people like me. While I was writing this p

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