#I usually never reverse-apply musical canon to the general lore

[purecommemasolitude]

Canon queer Soda is actually so so funny to me because like. This is one of the most widely known and studied American books of all time. It holds a strong and famous place in American literary canon. Sodapop Curtis may be our little guy but he’s also a name known to millions of people who’ve studied him in class every year for the last 50 years or so. SE Hinton herself is slightly infamous for insisting that none of the characters from the outsiders are gay. This used to be, as far as I know, a hot piece of discourse. And then along comes the musical, and along comes a cover shortage, and now he’s just queer. That’s a canon fact about him. Sodapop Curtis in the Tony-award winning adaptation of the classic American novel is a queer man just like that