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? 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.
QUEERG ROMEO AND JULIET SOUTH KOREA: HOMONORMATIVY AS GAY UTOPIAN FANTASY
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. 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.
He is a possible love tert for Juliet, but he meets May and ’s not that he’s gay… he’s pansexual. And talkg about inty beyond jt gay and straight, or your given birth genr. 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.