Learn about matelotage, which many believe to be an early form of gay marriage honored among pirat of the 1700s and 1800s. the legal civil unns bound two sailors together an rmal partnership, ung one's fortune and future to the other's, and were rpected by ship ptas and pirate crews. (same-sex marriage, queer history, history of marriage)
Contents:
- MATELOTAGE : GAY MARRIAGE AMONG PIRAT OR JT A BS PARTNERSHIP?
- GAY PIRAT: AN EXPLANATN TO THE ILLY SHIRTS?
MATELOTAGE : GAY MARRIAGE AMONG PIRAT OR JT A BS PARTNERSHIP?
Matelotage was a gay marriage of sorts practiced by male pirat om the seventeenth century. Some of the most succsful pirat had relatnships wh ... * history of gay pirates *
Matelotage was a gay marriage of sorts practiced by male pirat om the 17th century. Spartan boys were traed om a young age by other Spartan men, Roman soldiers were allowed to have same-sex relatnships wh slav or prostut, samurai practiced wakashudo (translated as "the way of the youth" and very siar to the Greek tradn of men trag boys), and "suatnal homosexualy" exists all-male prisons. Matelotage, as an stutn that veloped on ships full of men, is another one of the "homosocial" relatnships on the high seas were not unique to the 17th and 18th centuri eher.
There are acunts of the Heli, an ancient Germanic tribe, practicg homosexualy their warrr-based culture as mercenari and pirat of Europe was iologilly agast same-sex relatnships durg the 17th and 18th centuri, scribg them wh terms like "sodomy" and "buggery. " Homosexualy uld be punished by ath, although rarely was. Ironilly, homosexual relatnships European society were associated wh (and often tolerated, as a rult) the wealthy and ele, who were nsired to be above the law.
GAY PIRAT: AN EXPLANATN TO THE ILLY SHIRTS?
* history of gay pirates *
In Sodomy and the Pirate Tradn: English Sea Rovers the Seventeenth Century Caribbean, Profsor Barry Richard Burg wr that matelotage was “an stutnalized lkg of bucneer and another male — most often a youth — a relatnship wh clearly homosexual characteristics. All but the wealthy ele uld be jailed or even killed for homosexualy.
Even the pirate world, homosexualy wasn’t que accepted as the norm. In terms of exactly how mon same-sex romance was among pirat, historians today generally believe that rat of homosexualy likely mirrored what would have been found the populatn at large.
At most, they will feature a supportg character who's "revealed" to be gay or bisexual, wh maybe a love tert who gets killed or disappears tragilly.