Maude Adams and the LGBTQ History of Peter Pan

Go to to grab an 82% discount on Private Internet Access! That’s just $ a month, with 4 extra months completely for free! ~~~~ In 1905, Maude Adams took the stage as Peter Pan. She would go on to define the role for generations, making Peter the icon he is today. But the secret behind her allure was the hidden fact that Maude Adams was a lesbian, the first in a long line of sapphic actresses playing Peter Pan. Come learn with me about Peter’s LGBTQ history, and the life of Maude Adams: actress, lesbian, philanthropist, and inventor. Subscribe to the Merry Blackbird Postcard Society on Patreon to get this Maude Adams print in January! Check out Marlowe Lune’s work: Marlowe’s Instagram: Marlowe’s Twitter: Azrai’s video: Azrai’s Youtube Channel: @Azrai Buy my graphic novel, Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun: Find me on Twitter: I’m on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: Buy my comics: Send me a ko-fi: Read my webcomic: Catch it on Tapas: Line Webtoons: Filmed using: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k– Blackmagic Video Assist 5” HDR – Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro– Samsung Portable SSD T5 - 2Tb– ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sources: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie The Longest Street by Louis Sobol Maude Adams by Acton Davies Maude Adams: An Intimate Portrait by Phyllis Robbins Maude Adams: Idol of the American Theater, 1872-1953 by Armond Fields The Peter Pan Chronicles by Bruce K. Hanson The One I Knew Least of All by Maude Adams The gay & lesbian theatrical legacy : a biographical dictionary of major figures in American stage history in the pre-Stonewall Era by Billy J. Harbin, Kim Marra, and Robert A. Schanke Maude Adams by Frederic Dean for Good Housekeeping Magazine, May 1913 Heroines of the Modern Stage By Forrest Izard Maude Adams as L’Aiglon: A Pictorial Souvenir Maude Adams: a biography by Ada Patterson Barrie, the story of J. M. B. by Denis Mackail Daniel Frohman presents; an autobiography by Daniel Frohman The Great White Way; a re-creation of Broadway’s golden era of theatrical entertainment by Allen Churchill Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (The Play) By J.M. Barrie Charles Frohman: manager and man, by Isaac F. Marcosson and Daniel Frohman, with an appreciation by James M. Barrie Child Labor on the Stage -- A Symposium by Jane Addams, Henry Baird Favill and Jean M. Gordon The Maude Adams book by Charles Frohman My years on the stage by John Drew Maude Adams and the Mormons by J. Michael Hunter Maude Adams and her Long Island Farm by Gustav Kobbé for Ladies Home Journal The Legend of Maude Adams, New York Times, March 1, 1914 Peter Pan in Science by Herbert W. Forster, New York Times, Oct 2, 1921 Maude Adams: Her Life and Career by Sara Ellen Wheatley Roderer Maude Adams to Renounce Solitude by Polly Ferguson, Lima News, April 11, 1926 For Believers in Fairies, New York Times, October 18, 1905 The Silent Movie Peter Pan (1924) by Jim Korkis for Mouse Planet MASCULINE UNCERTAINTY AND MALE HOMOSOCIALITY IN J.M. BARRIE’S PETER PAN STORIES by Krystal Lynn Hawkins A Friendship in Letters: Robert Louis Stevenson & J. M. Barrie by Michael Shaw Playing Peter Pan: Conceptualizing “Bois“ in Contemporary Queer Theory by Sarah Trimble Childhood and Greek Love: Dorian Gray and Peter Pan by Holly Blackford J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in and Out of Time: A Children’s Classic at 100 by Donna R. White, C. Anita Tarr