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Queerg Romeo and Juliet South Korea: Homonormativy as Gay Utopian Fantasy - Volume 47 Issue 3

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IS MERCUT GAY?

In the 1996 Romeo and Juliet film Mercut drs up as a woman and acts que mp, and I wonred if Mercut was possibly gay * is and juliet gay *

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. 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.

IS MERCUT GAY?

Many people objected to the productn’s gay ntent.

STARCROSSED REVIEW – GAY ROMANCE RIFF ON ROMEO AND JULIET IS A GIDDY LIGHT

Sendly I’d like to expla that my recent readg of Mercuts character I was liberately lookg for homosexual tras, thgs that intify wh the LGBT world and wh the character of Mercut, many of the lks are weak at bt, but uld go some way to queerg one of the Bards most outrageo characters. So Mercut is gay bee he don’t like Rosale and says Romeo would be better off wh an Open arse that looks like the u of a Medlar Tree… Is that ? In fact wasn’t until they 1800’s that beg Gay was specifilly ma illegal and punishable, even si your own 4 walls.

QUEERG ROMEO AND JULIET SOUTH KOREA: HOMONORMATIVY AS GAY UTOPIAN FANTASY

So, tim and attus to beg gay weren’t actually that bad at the time. In the 1996 Romeo and Juliet film Mercut drs up as a woman and acts que mp, and I wonred if Mercut was possibly gay. 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.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* IS AND JULIET GAY

Starcrossed review – gay romance riff on Romeo and Juliet is a giddy light | Theatre | The Guardian .

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