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BOND STAR BEN WHISHAW 'MARRI' HIS GAY PARTNER POSER MARK BRADSHAW
Bond star 'marri' his gay partner - and they are both 'so happy and proud'Ben Whishaw has entered civil partnership wh poser Mark BradshawCouple met on the set of Bright Star which Whishaw played John Keats Published: 22:15 BST, 3 Augt 2013 | Updated: 18:39 BST, 4 Augt 2013 Married: Ben Whishaw as Q Skyfall He has always been notorly discreet about his private life, but now n be revealed that actor Ben Whishaw has entered to a civil partnership. Speculatn was sparked by an terview he gave to the gay magaze Out March 2011 while playg a homosexual character an off-Broadway play, The Pri. When the terviewer asked whether was important for young gay people to have posive role mols, Whishaw replied: ‘I feel my heart that ’s important, but I don’t que know yet the way to go about that.
By velopg Eve Sedgwick’s approach to male homosocial bonds and triangulated kship to one that is more specific and, Keats’s se, more applible, Mascule Dire offers a means of analyzg male-male relatnships outsi the bounds of female termediari. Do all roads, so to speak, lead to homosexualy, or n the male as subject and object of sire pot stead to an attempt to revise what beg “male” is?
By posg that an analysis of the exprsns of mascule sire across the Victorian perd reveals patterns of socializatn across genr l (that is, a means of intifyg onelf as “mascule”) and, more subversively, across l of sexualy (that is, a means of intifyg onelf as what we now term “homosexual”), Dellamora’s approach offers Keats scholars a double-edged method for placg early bgraphil acunts of the poet the lived ntext of their thors. This is obvly not to say that the ntext of all, or even part, of the circle of men volved the promotn of Keats’s celebry was one of sexual sire directed at other men (though also do not preclu the possibily, and many s, historil facts support the sexual intifitn of some of Keats’s supporters and bgraphers as what we would now term bisexual or homosexual). But, as Dellamora pots out his troductn, “Sedgwick has challenged the assumptn of earlier gay wrers that homosexual existence is necsarily different om and adversarial relatn to other sorts of mascule experience [...