I just read this article in the most recent issue of The Advocate, titled "Not Your Bubbe's Yentl: A story made famous by Barbra Streisand gets a queer 21st-century retelling." Jill Sobule, the queer singer-songwriter of the 1995 hit "I Kissed a Girl," has written an updated stage musical of Yentl. The article states: "Sobule's Yentl story is about a transgender boy's coming-of-age rather than a straight girl's secret."
Interestingly, at the end of "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," the Isaac Bashevis Singer short story on which Yentl is based, Yentl moves to America at the end to continue living as a man. Food for thought...
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