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HAMLET CHARACTERS RANKED BY HOW GAY THEY ARE

First off we have our tular character, who I’m rankg as the gayt bee he is legimately one of the gayt characters I have ever seen, not jt this play but possibly ever. His entire personaly is jt the epome of Deprsed Gay Drama Queen. He is like Peak Gay.

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In sence, Horat is the only person the play that Hamlet ever tly tsts, and I thk that’s very gay of him. If you manage to get the two and Hamlet and Horat all the same scene together, then the chaotic gay energy is palpable.

Hamlet acc them of beg manipulative and playg him like a pipe (which out of ntext, also sounds gay) but really, all they do throughout most of the play is try to make their iend happy.

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But, as Hamlet’s foil he shar a lot of the gay drama queen tennci wh Hamlet, albe to a lser extent.

And what’s gayer than mutually assured stctn wh your homoerotic rival? I’m actually somewhat surprised that Horat end up this far down on the list, bee this man is 100% gay. He’s the quiet gay.

This is a man that is not only obliv to the fact that both his children are gay, but also obliv to the fact that he is also gay. She marri two men, which isn’t very gay of her.

A GAY HAMLET

I was wonrg if there's any speculatn over whether Hamlet is gay, or at the very least not entirely straight. 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?

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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. Elsewhere the terview, Ian McKellen reflected on his momento cisn to e out publicly as gay durg a live BBC Rad broadst 1988.

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“But of urse when I grew up and unrstood what the actual laws were – and this pernic new ltle law [Sectn 28] that was beg brought , very mean spired, hibg children to beg troduced to the fact of homosexualy society – was only when I realised that there was grave jtice, that I realised was a grave jtice agast me and I took personally, and once I’d taken personally beme obv not what I had to do, but wanted to do. But then aga, havg directed the siarly vivac “Merry Wiv” at the Delarte Theater and “Nollywood Dreams” at MCC Theater last year, Ali is at his bt when given an ocsn to celebrate Klwich/The New York TimJuicy knows about trma — after all, he’s a gay Black man North Carola.

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