"People will always stare at the queer birds like you and me," she says, in a spirit of defiance, not empathy.
He ends the book by referring again to this odd bird, though now the addled chick of childhood has become O'Connor's "literary chickens walking backward" — against the grain, comic, tragic, queer, unnatural.
The Queen of the Corner is repeatedly called a "faggot," a "sissy queer," a "silly bird," "a ridiculous old queen".
It will be co-directed by Mellor and Antonia Bird, and Queer as Folk's Nicola Shindler and Hill will be the executive producers.
Stirling's thumbnail drawings, his doodles and overlays, his worm's-eye and bird's-eye views from queer angles, are works of art in themselves.
Moreau told me that he looks up to queer, straight, and trans producers and sites like Lucie Blush, Bonus Hole Boys, Antonio Da Silva, James Darling, Bird and Bee Studios.
Clayton is part of an unofficial lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and queer (LGBTQ) network within the V&A staff, which organises one-off events such as bringing in performance artist Bird la Bird to give queer tours and hosting London's LGBT community choir, the Pink Singers.
Bird's character, the sane one, is plopped into the middle of this queer ensemble to whinny and writhe.
