Peter the Kidnapper
As the story goes, Peter and the Lost Boys are the boys who “fall out of their prams when the nurse is looking the other way, and if they are not claimed in seven days, they are sent far away to the “Never Land” where Peter Pan is their captain. In the eyes of someone from this generation, this can be seen as a queer allegory.
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Herrera expressed, “Peter Pan’s defiance is read as an abdication of the responsibility of maturity, and like gays, an abdication of the responsibilities of patriarchal heterosexual masculinity.” He continued that “Peter finds a non-procreative, homosocial world to be ample enough for his everlasting happiness? That’s pretty darn queer.”