Gay and Lesbian Adoption: Banishing the Pied Piper

Authors

Amy D. Ronner, St. Thomas University College of Law

First Page

207

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In my recent book, Homophobia and the Law, Robert Browning's Pied Piper, "the strangest figure" with a "queer long coat from heal to head, inducts a core chapter, the one on Children. After all, it is this notorious Pied Piper, who absconds with the town's children, leads them through a "wondrous portal" into the mountain-side cave, and renders their laughter inaudible forever. The Pied Piper has evolved into a menacing conceit that perpetuates discrimination against gay and lesbian couples. It is predicated on an irrational notion that homosexuals will, by coaxing children toward their own sexual orientation, seal them in some cavern of prurient doom.

Recommended Citation

Amy D. Ronner, Gay and Lesbian Adoption: Banishing the Pied Piper, 18 St. Thomas L. Rev. 207 (2005).
Available at: https://scholarship.stu.edu/stlr/vol18/iss2/2