Queerg Romeo and Juliet South Korea: Homonormativy as Gay Utopian Fantasy - Volume 47 Issue 3
Contents:
- 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 REVIEW – GAY ROMANCE RIFF ON ROMEO AND JULIET IS A GIDDY LIGHT
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?
QUEERG ROMEO AND JULIET SOUTH KOREA: HOMONORMATIVY AS GAY UTOPIAN FANTASY
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. 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. A gay film versn of Romeo and Juliet seems h and new.