As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
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WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
'Was Shakpeare Gay?' - the qutn discsed episo seven of our Let's Talk Shakpeare podst. From the Shakpeare Birthplace Tst. * captain shakespeare gay *
This is a really big qutn that people have wrten a great al about, so this episo acts as a sort of summary of some of the arguments for and agast Shakpeare beg gay.
I’m Jennifer Reid, and today we’re askg, “Was Shakpeare gay? And prev podsts, I’ve played you lots of short clips om a variety of speakers, but this week I’m gog to do slightly differently, and play you fewer, longer clips, as the clips ought to be played their was Shakpeare gay? DOLLIMORE: I don’t know whether Shakpeare was gay or not, bee he didn’t leave any personal rerd.
WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
Shall we pare thee to a summer's gay? For thou art as fabulo. * captain shakespeare gay *
So, what that actually entailed [sic] people isn’t the equivalent of what a lovg gay relatnship is, whether or not Shakpeare was gay is a difficult qutn. One thg that is fe, though, is that there was no self-inty as gay or homosexual or, as far as we know, any other term durg that time perd.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
So, Shakpeare certaly didn’t go around self-intifyg himself as homosexual or bisexual or straight or gay.
Michael Dobson explored this ia, the ia of Shakpeare’s awarens of different sexuali and sexual preferenc when I spoke to Well, sofar as the tegori of gay and straight didn’t exist, then he wasn’t gay, but that equally means that he uldn’t have been straight eher.
There's a lot of bate about whether anybody was gay, any of the morn sense, Elizabethan culture, or whether there were jt certa thgs they did, sometim, that didn’t actually fe a particular set of inti.