6/27/2023 0 Comments Diarey of anne frank![]() In 2015, a US radio host compared the plight of a pizzeria which said it would not provide pizzas for a same-sex wedding to Anne Frank, saying gays “trap good-hearted American families in their home.” (Getty) (Getty)Īrtistic director Greg Doran confirmed long running rumours that the playwright was likely to be homosexual, adding that the Victorians changed his work to hide the truth.ĭoran also said that a number of plays written by Shakespeare include LGBT characters, which the company can no longer ignore. The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company said earlier this year that William Shakespeare may well have been gay. There is enough straightwashing of history. it is important to shed light on times historical figures have expressed same-sex attraction.Īs Twitter user Rachel has pointed out, the passage is rarely discussed, and not widely known. Look beneath my chatty exterior.’ But I found that it was easier to think up questions than to ask them.” (Getty)Īnne never defined her sexuality, and it may not have been the most important fact about her. “I wanted to say, ‘Tell me about yourself. She continued: “I saw his shyness, and I melted. “I could read his innermost thoughts, and in his face I saw a look of helplessness and uncertainty as to how to behave, and at the same time a flicker of awareness of his masculinity. ![]() “She accepted this and it only improved our friendship and made it stronger.”Īnne also wrote about her friend Peter in the diary, saying: “It gave me a wonderful feeling when I looked into his dark blue eyes and saw how bashful my unexpected visit had made him. “But before she went into hiding I had been able to tell her where the limits were. “Years later I read that she had written about this in her diary. “Then I met up with other friends and she was jealous and unhappy.” Her passionate declarations of friendship were too much for me sometimes. ![]() She continued: “I always had to prove to her that we were ‘best friends’. “We had a close relationship and I liked being with her, but she laid a claim on me and I didn’t know how to handle that.” (Getty) On the official Anne Frank website, Jacqueline wrote about her relationship with Anne. ![]() “It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks. “I asked her whether, as a proof of our friendship, we should feel one another’s breasts, but she refused.”Īnne added: “I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. “I could not help being terribly inquisitive over her body, for she had always kept it hidden from me. She added: “I remember that once when I slept with a girl friend I had a strong desire to kiss her, and that I did do so. Speaking about her best friend Jacqueline van Maarsen, the teenager continued: “I already had these kinds of feelings subconsciously before I came here”. “Sometimes, when I lie in bed at night, I have a terrible desire to feel my breasts and to listen to the quiet rhythmic beat of my heart.” 2)Īnne continued: “After I came here, when I was just fourteen, I began to think about myself sooner than most girls, and to know that I am a ‘person.’ They “discover that they themselves are individuals with ideas, thoughts, and habits,” she wrote that the psychologist had said. Earlier this year, people all over the world drew parallels between the Muslim ban in the US and the struggles of Jewish people including Anne who tried to find refuge in the US during World War II.Īnne and her family – including her father Otto, her mother Edith and sister Margot – attempted to obtain US visas.Īnd the family’s story was recalled as thousands of Muslims were turned away at the border.Īnne wrote in the diary she kept while trapped that psychologist Sis Heyster had stated that “girls of this age don’t feel quite certain of themselves”.
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