Queerg Romeo and Juliet South Korea: Homonormativy as Gay Utopian Fantasy - Volume 47 Issue 3
Contents:
- IS MERCUT GAY?
- STARCROSSED REVIEW – GAY ROMANCE RIFF ON ROMEO AND JULIET IS A GIDDY LIGHT
- QUEERG ROMEO AND JULIET SOUTH KOREA: HOMONORMATIVY AS GAY UTOPIAN FANTASY
- STARCROSSED IS A MOVG GAY TERPRETATN OF ROMEO AND JULIET – REVIEW
IS MERCUT GAY?
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.
STARCROSSED REVIEW – GAY ROMANCE RIFF ON ROMEO AND JULIET IS A GIDDY LIGHT
A gay film versn of Romeo and Juliet seems h and new. On the g of a most inic love story, another hidn romance blooms between the play’s sendary characters, Mercut and Tybalt, as they stggle and flirt a gay romance set amidst 14th century Verona. An origal play by Lulu Klebanoff ’20, “Tybalt and Mercut Are Dead” reveals a hypothetil gay romance that occurs offstage of “Romeo and Juliet.
Even when the characters adm hont nfn regardg their gay tennci, pecially a nservative Verona, they never disregard the relatnship as merely a physil tryst, but rather as an hont, emotnally sensive nnectn. It's not that swip at the US ary's approach to beg gay, per se, highlights - and also monstrat that regardls of the overarchg "policy", is down to dividual people to implement lastg change and improvements.
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 ? In fact wasn’t until they 1800’s that beg Gay was specifilly ma illegal and punishable, even si your own 4 walls.
QUEERG ROMEO AND JULIET SOUTH KOREA: HOMONORMATIVY AS GAY UTOPIAN FANTASY
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!
Then before Romeo uld m suici, Juliet wak up, and they n away to Mantua to live their gay life!
STARCROSSED IS A MOVG GAY TERPRETATN OF ROMEO AND JULIET – REVIEW
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. The weddg of Kim-Cho Kwangsu and Kim Snghwan 2013, the first public gay weddg Korea, remas a sensatn after several years.
Footnote 2 In the weddg ceremony held outdoors downtown Seoul as a prott agast homophobia, a middle-aged Christian man raid the stage and threw a bucket of human faec, clarg himself God's msenger agast homosexualy. First found the mid-1990s, Korean gay and lbian anizatns have grown slowly. The two shows serve cril attentn as the first Shakpeare productns to foreground the issue of homosexualy the Korean theatre, a manner different om those that played wh gay subtexts, transvtism or genr bendg, such as Theatre Gabyun's Trans Twelfth Night (dir.
Footnote 6 Durg the rearch, what stck me as most remarkable was the oppose dience rpons to the two shows, which took different approach to the issue of homosexualy. LAS's Juliet and Juliet, which was rather nservative gay wh s exprsn of most sexual display and sire for monogamo marriage, was hailed as a rare ‘female queer theatre’; Yohangza's Romeo and Juliet, which approximated a queer theatre wh s mp athetics fyg sexual taboo, was nounced as a near-pornographic ‘anti-queer’ ic show.