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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.

IS MERCUT 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. Many people objected to the productn’s gay ntent. 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. So, tim and attus to beg gay weren’t actually that bad at the time.