Mariah Carey has endorsed a ebook a couple of homosexual child who loves Mariah Carey/ (Getty/Canva/Waterstones/Scholastic)
Pop royalty Mariah Carey has thrown her weight behind a ebook a couple of queer child who’s an enormous fan of… you guessed it, Mariah Carey.
Glitter Boy, by homosexual creator Ian Eagleton, is a kids’s ebook that tells the story of a younger boy who’s slowly beginning to realise who he’s.
Along with being an enormous Mariah Carey fan, he loves dancing, his homosexual instructor and his new good friend Joel – however all of these issues are beginning to make his dad uncomfortable.
In an emotional publish on X/Twitter yesterday (11 April), Eagleton shared an open letter with Carey, explaining how the legendary singer and Christmas herald “modified his life” after he was bullied as a teen for being homosexual.
“Once I was rising up, being homosexual was one thing to be ashamed of and I used to be bullied terribly for it. There have been no LGBTQ+ position fashions, pioneers or trailblazers who I might look as much as,” he wrote.
“That’s, till I found you, your lovely voice and your music.”
Eagleton heard Carey’s 1997 hit “Honey” on the radio when he was 11, and instantly went out to purchase her the album Daydream.
“It modified my life. You sang about being lonely and misplaced, damage and confused, of feeling like an outsider. You additionally sang about bravery, power, self-belief, love and by no means permitting others to remove your gentle,” Eagleton went on to say.
“It was such as you had been singing to me, the little child who was so scared and afraid.”
He added that he was impressed to put in writing Glitter Boy about his expertise of rising up after he and his husband adopted a child boy. He then provided to ship her a replica of the ebook.
Responding to Eagleton’s publish, Carey, who launched a movie and album named Glitter in 2001, revealed she had already acquired a replica.
“I noticed it and I acquired the ebook. You’re an inspiration. Love you” she wrote on X, alongside three coronary heart emojis.
Glitter Boy refers to Carey’s 2001 musical rom-com Glitter, which follows her as a younger singer who rises to stardom after getting right into a relationship with a DJ.
Eagleton wrote on social media that it “means the world” to him that Carey had a replica of the ebook, whereas her followers – referred to as Mariah’s Lambs – acquired emotional seeing how a lot the celebrity means to queer individuals.
“That is true for thus many people homosexual/queer males. All of us regarded as much as Mariah and took consolation in her music and lyrics,” one particular person wrote on social media.
A second mentioned: “You bought me feeling feelings @MrEagletonIan, I’m so, so joyful for you. And as soon as once more the radiant @MariahCarey exhibits precisely why she is such an ally and such an inspirational goddess.”
Whereas Glitter Boy is Eagleton’s most up-to-date work, he’s additionally the co-author of Nen and the Lonely Fisherman, which gained a Polari Prize in 2022.
Glitter Boy is in the stores now.