Is Mercut Gay?

Contents:

• IS MERCUT GAY?
• IS MERCUT GAY?
• STARCROSSED REVIEW – GAY ROMANCE RIFF ON ROMEO AND JULIET IS A GIDDY LIGHT
• QUEERG ROMEO AND JULIET SOUTH KOREA: HOMONORMATIVY AS GAY UTOPIAN FANTASY

IS MERCUT 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?

IS MERCUT 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.

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

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. 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. Even when the characters adm hont nfn regardg their gay tennci, pecially a nservative Verona, they never disregard the relatnship as merely a physil tryst, but rather as an hont, emotnally sensive nnectn.

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

The weddg of Kim-Cho Kwangsu and Kim Snghwan 2013, the first public gay weddg Korea, remas a sensatn after several years. Footnote 2 In the weddg ceremony held outdoors downtown Seoul as a prott agast homophobia, a middle-aged Christian man raid the stage and threw a bucket of human faec, clarg himself God's msenger agast homosexualy. First found the mid-1990s, Korean gay and lbian anizatns have grown slowly.

The two shows serve cril attentn as the first Shakpeare productns to foreground the issue of homosexualy the Korean theatre, a manner different om those that played wh gay subtexts, transvtism or genr bendg, such as Theatre Gabyun's Trans Twelfth Night (dir.

Footnote 6 Durg the rearch, what stck me as most remarkable was the oppose dience rpons to the two shows, which took different approach to the issue of homosexualy. LAS's Juliet and Juliet, which was rather nservative gay wh s exprsn of most sexual display and sire for monogamo marriage, was hailed as a rare ‘female queer theatre’; Yohangza's Romeo and Juliet, which approximated a queer theatre wh s mp athetics fyg sexual taboo, was nounced as a near-pornographic ‘anti-queer’ ic show. Furthermore, the dream of livg an ordary life Juliet and Juliet would be subject to the charge of homonormativy, which is a highly problematized ncept current queer disurs for s plicy wh neo-liberal polics as well as margalizatn of other non-heteronormative sexuali.