Reading the Grinch as Gay to Piss Off Dr. Seuss

Kalea Martin
Life is Lit.
Published in
3 min readDec 9, 2020

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If you think I’m about to ruin your childhood by reading the Grinch as gay character, you’d be even more disappointed to discover the truth about Dr. Seuss.

Did you know that The Cat in the Hat was based on blackface performance, and that The Sneetches was originally written as an anti-Semitic narrative? Did you know that And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, originally…

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Kalea Martin
Life is Lit.

An editorial writer and linguist with a background in trade book publishing and a B.A. in Romance Languages & Literature.