Matelotage was a gay marriage of sorts practiced by male pirat om the seventeenth century. Some of the most succsful pirat had relatnships wh ...
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THE GAY MARRIAG OF A NETEENTH-CENTURY PRISON SHIP
” In his tellg, at least a hundred men aboard the prison ships Bermuda had same-sex partners whom they nsired, the official archive of gay marriage is still s fancy: the Uned Stat, June marked the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s lg Obergefell v. Hodg, which provid gay upl wh the legal right to marry. (It wasn’t until the end of the neteenth century, when “homosexual” and “heterosexual” were vented as medil tegori, that more wrten evince of the existence of what we might ll gay muni emerged.
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.