History HoYay / Literature

* Christina Rosetti's poem "Goblin Market," even if they are sisters. "Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices!" And then there's the part where Laura licks and kisses the juice off Lizzie...

* ''ALittlePrincess'': I can't be the only one to have noticed hints of this in Sara's relationships with Becky and Ermengarde.

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** "As soon as someone like Hunter paid him attention and wanted to tell him something, even just asking him to come outside for a minute, to be alone, without his stepfather, he blushed like a virgin and started agonizing, bleating like a lamb…"
** "Artyom suddenly regretted that he had succumbed to Hunter’s strong charms and hypnotizing gaze."

--> "Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg’s arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost thought I had been his wife."

** In his review of the movie version of ''Eclipse'', RogerEbert writes this about Edward and Jacob: "The two of you are making eye contact. Edward’s been a confirmed bachelor for 109 years. Get in the brokeback spirit."

-> “Come to my arms!” he cried, and kissed me hard upon both cheeks.

* May be considered NoYay / FanDisservice to some but...Lord Gro and King Gorice XII in E. R. Eddison’s ''TheWormOuroboros''. We have the king ''kissing'' Gro early on and it all comes to a head later on when the King invites Gro to a private conference ''in his private bath''. The King’s naked body is described in great detail in this scene.
** Also some hints at incestuous HoYay lust between Lords Juss and Goldry Bluszco. With Queen Sophonisba acting as an enabler [[spoiler:informing Juss he must kiss his brother on the lips to break the spell of stasis under which he’s held]] it just becomes that much more perverse.

--> "Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg’s arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost thought I had been his wife."

** In his review of the movie version of ''Eclipse'', RogerEbert writes this about Edward and Jacob: "The two of you are making eye contact. Edward’s been a confirmed bachelor for 109 years. Get in the brokeback spirit."

-> “Come to my arms!” he cried, and kissed me hard upon both cheeks.

* May be considered NoYay / FanDisservice to some but...Lord Gro and King Gorice XII in E. R. Eddison’s ''TheWormOuroboros''. We have the king ''kissing'' Gro early on and it all comes to a head later on when the King invites Gro to a private conference ''in his private bath''. The King’s naked body is described in great detail in this scene.
** Also some hints at incestuous HoYay lust between Lords Juss and Goldry Bluszco. With Queen Sophonisba acting as an enabler [[spoiler:informing Juss he must kiss his brother on the lips to break the spell of stasis under which he’s held]] it just becomes that much more perverse.

* ''PrideAndPrejudice'': Mr. Darcy convinces his best friend Mr. Bingley to leave town with him to protect him from surely getting his heart broken by Jane. The two do everything together and go everywhere together, including dances and balls, even though Darcy hates dancing and socializing.
** Not to mention Elizabeth remarking Bingley 'never stirs without him [Darcy]'.
** Georgiana Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett are also ''extremely'' happy about becoming joined in marriage... okay, so technically it's through Elizabeth's marriage to Mr. Darcy. Just a formality.
** {{Emma}} Woodhouse and Harriet Smith -- baby, the LesYay vibes are through the roof! Mr. Knightley doesn't even buy Emma's "matchmaking" excuse and accuses Emma of breaking up Harriet and Robert Martin because "you want Harriet all to yourself!" Emma maintains that neither Robert Martin nor any man on Earth is good enough for sweet, perfect, tender-hearted Harriet with her [[WhatBeautifulEyes beautiful blue eyes]]!
*** Not to mention the wording of Emma's relationship with her former governess.
** Catherine Moreland of ''NorthangerAbbey'' finds herself in a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship LoveTriangle with Isabella Thorpe and Eleanor Tilney.

** Wait, bath scene? That reminds me of the [[BrotherSisterIncest sexual overtones]] of a scene in ''Splinter of the Mind's Eye''. So apparently even the HoYay of ''Eragon'', the one non-''Star Wars'' thing in the whole series, is ExpandedUniverse NoYay.

** ...note also that Bisclavret is [[spoiler:''lying on the king's bed'']] at this point. This troper can't be the only one who sees it.

* In the medieval epic [[TheSongOfRoland The Song of Roland]], Roland is engaged to his best friend Olivier's sister Aude, but he never thinks of her or mentions her once. He seems much more fond of his companion and "ami" Olivier himself.

* In the medieval epic [[SongOfRoland The Song of Roland]], Roland is engaged to his best friend Olivier's sister Aude, but he never thinks of her or mentions her once. He seems much more fond of his companion and "ami" Olivier himself.

* In the medieval epic ''The Song of Roland'', Roland is engaged to his best friend Olivier's sister Aude, but he never thinks of her or mentions her once. He seems much more fond of his companion and "ami" Olivier himself.

-->'''Gilbert:''' I was a very constant and attentive visitor to him throughout the whole period of his illness and convalescence; not only from the interest I took in his recovery, and my desire to cheer him up and make the utmost possible amends for my former 'brutality,' but from my growing attachment to himself, and the increasing pleasure I found in his society - partly from his increased cordiality to me, but chiefly on account of his close connection, both in blood and in affection, with my adored Helen. I loved him for it better than I liked to express: and I took a secret delight in pressing those slender white fingers, so marvellously like her own, considering he was not a woman, and in watching the passing changes in his fair, pale features, and observing the intonations of his voice, detecting resemblances which I wondered had never struck me before.

* Rather obscure, but the narrator Emil Sinclair in Herman Hesse's ''Demian'' waxes poetic about the title character to the point that one of this troper's classmates actually asked the teacher if Sinclair was supposed to be gay. Became pretty bizarre, though, when Sinclair ended up falling for Demian's [[HotMom mother]] (who's said to look a lot like her son).
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* [[RobinsonCrusoe Robinson Crusoe]] and Friday. Even BEYOND the fact that they're two guys all alone on a deserted island for years and years . . .

* No love for E.M. Forster? Being a real life StraightGay, his novels were full of homoerotic subtext: ''A Passage to India'' is certainly on a level with ''BridesheadRevisited''. And as for ''Maurice''...

** This Troper's little brother had to write about whether "Gene wanted to ''be'' Finny, or he wanted to be ''with'' Finny." SoYeah.

* Read any [[PGWodehouse Wodehouse]] lately?
** The [[JeevesAndWooster Jeeves]] novels are a prime example. Bertie tends to spend paragraphs at a time going on about how awesome Jeeves is, and Jeeves is always on hand to help with anything Bertie needs - especially if it involves getting rid of women hoping to marry him. There's even a short story narrated from Jeeves's perspective (usually it's from Bertie's) where Bertie is musing on how nice it would be to raise a daughter. Jeeves is so alarmed by this, since it would disrupt the rhythm of their household, that he sabotages the plan by arranging for Bertie to visit a girls' school and see what girls are really like.
** And then there's Psmith and Mike. [[XJustX ...Good grief, Psmith and Mike.]]
---> 'It is saddening me to a great extent, Comrade Jackson,' he said, 'this perpetual parting of the ways. When I think of the happy moments we have spent hand-in-hand across the seas, it fills me with a certain melancholy to have you flitting off in this manner without me.'