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IS MERCUT GAY?
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IS MERCUT GAY?
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. 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.