10 Queer Fairy Tale Retellings Better Than the Originals

The article recommends queer retellings of fairy tales, arguing that they bring LGBTQ+ characters and perspectives into stories that have often centred on heterosexual relationships. It presents the books as a varied way to revisit familiar tales, spanning romance, fantasy, graphic novels and horror.

The examples include a camp, gay take on Cinderella; the anthology *Unburied Fables*, which ranges from polyamorous stories to an aromantic protagonist; and *The 100 Nights of Hero*, a sapphic, feminist reworking of *The Arabian Nights*. Other selections recast *Beauty and the Beast* around a gardener and a prince, and *Peter Pan* through Peter’s return after ten years living as Wendy Darling.