Abstract
9 pm on a November Saturday. Joni, Tony and I are out on the town.
Tony is from the next town over and he needs to get out. His parents
are extremely religious. It doesn't even matter which religion-they're
all the same at a certain point, and few of them want a gay boy cruising
around with his friends on a Saturday night. So every week Tony
feeds us bible stories, then on Saturday we show up at his doorstep
well versed in parables and earnestness, dazzling his parents with our
blinding purity. They slip him a twenty and tell him to enjoy our study
group. We go spend the money on romantic comedies, dimestore toys,
and diner jukeboxes. Our happiness is the closest we'll ever come to a
generous God, so we figure Tony's parents would understand, if only
they weren't set on misunderstanding so many things. Tony has to be
home by midnight, so we are on a Cinderella mission. With this in
mind, we keep our eye on the ball. (Levithan 2003, 1)
Tony is from the next town over and he needs to get out. His parents
are extremely religious. It doesn't even matter which religion-they're
all the same at a certain point, and few of them want a gay boy cruising
around with his friends on a Saturday night. So every week Tony
feeds us bible stories, then on Saturday we show up at his doorstep
well versed in parables and earnestness, dazzling his parents with our
blinding purity. They slip him a twenty and tell him to enjoy our study
group. We go spend the money on romantic comedies, dimestore toys,
and diner jukeboxes. Our happiness is the closest we'll ever come to a
generous God, so we figure Tony's parents would understand, if only
they weren't set on misunderstanding so many things. Tony has to be
home by midnight, so we are on a Cinderella mission. With this in
mind, we keep our eye on the ball. (Levithan 2003, 1)
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Cinderella across cultures |
| Subtitle of host publication | New directions and interdisciplinary perspectives |
| Editors | Martine Hennard, Gillian Lathey, Monika Woźniak, Dutheil de la Rochere |
| Place of Publication | Detroit, Michigan |
| Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
| Chapter | 10 |
| Pages | 197-214 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780814341568 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780814341551 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |