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'ROMEO & JULIET LAW' GIV GAY TEEN 16 YEARS MORE IN PRISON THAN HETEROSEXUAL WOULD SERVE
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. 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. LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space.