Contents:
- STARCROSSED REVIEW – GAY ROMANCE RIFF ON ROMEO AND JULIET IS A GIDDY LIGHT
- IS MERCUT GAY?
- STARCROSSED IS A MOVG GAY TERPRETATN OF ROMEO AND JULIET – REVIEW
- LET'S HAVE A REAL GAY ROMEO OM MATTHEW BOURNE
STARCROSSED REVIEW – GAY ROMANCE RIFF ON ROMEO AND JULIET IS A GIDDY LIGHT
US playwright Rachel Gar has relegated Shakpeare’s famo lovers to the wgs and re-spun Romeo and Juliet as a tragic gay romance between Tybalt and Mercut. In addn, early morns did not e the terms “homosexual” or “gay.
As English scholar Ben Snrs says: “In the Renaissance, the love that dare not speak s name is not homosexualy, but rather any love that dar to pos a woman as worthy of a man’s plete votn.
None of this means Shakpeare was gay. What do this have to do wh beg gay? Not all gay men are effemate, but what our culture has to offer straight culture is the possibily of lookg at societal norms a different way, and that’s what Shakpeare offers too.
IS MERCUT GAY?
A gay film versn of Romeo and Juliet seems h and new. He is a possible love tert for Juliet, but he meets May and ’s not that he’s gay… he’s pansexual.
STARCROSSED IS A MOVG GAY TERPRETATN OF ROMEO AND JULIET – REVIEW
And talkg about inty beyond jt gay and straight, or your given birth genr. Sendly I’d like to expla that my recent readg of Mercuts character I was liberately lookg for homosexual tras, thgs that intify wh the LGBT world and wh the character of Mercut, many of the lks are weak at bt, but uld go some way to queerg one of the Bards most outrageo characters. So Mercut is gay bee he don’t like Rosale and says Romeo would be better off wh an Open arse that looks like the u of a Medlar Tree… Is that ?
LET'S HAVE A REAL GAY ROMEO OM MATTHEW BOURNE
In fact wasn’t until they 1800’s that beg Gay was specifilly ma illegal and punishable, even si your own 4 walls. So, tim and attus to beg gay weren’t actually that bad at the time. LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space.
Can anyone wre a versn of Romeo and Juliet the same time perd Verona Italy, but 's gay? Like, Romeo is a woman and Juliet is a lbian, or Romeo is gay and Juliet is a man. In the scene where Friar Lawrence is marryg Romeo and Juliet, he's not disgted by Gay Marriage, he's like "Fally, a Gay uple!