Sexing Mary Poppins, and Saving Mr. Banks, Part 1
The Disney version, and friend.I always thought Mary Poppins was a lesbian. Or at least even when I was a little boy, and even before I knew what a "lesbian" was, I somehow understood Mary Poppins was a sexual outlier - like so many other figures in children's literature. She simply lay outside the reproductive cycle of heterosexuality (as her audience did); she was mature, and yet somehow pre-pubescent; and her read…