Matelotage was a gay marriage of sorts practiced by male pirat om the seventeenth century. Some of the most succsful pirat had relatnships wh ...
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Were there any famo pirat that were outright gay or at least nfirmed married via matelotage? I am plang on wrg a story based on the life of a real gay pirate but i am havg a lot of trouble fdg any. If anyone n pot out a gay pirate pecially one of renown i would be grateful.
In Sodomy and the Pirate Tradn: English Sea Rovers the Seventeenth Century Caribbean, Profsor Barry Richard Burg wr that matelotage was “an stutnalized lkg of bucneer and another male — most often a youth — a relatnship wh clearly homosexual characteristics.
All but the wealthy ele uld be jailed or even killed for homosexualy. Even the pirate world, homosexualy wasn’t que accepted as the norm. In terms of exactly how mon same-sex romance was among pirat, historians today generally believe that rat of homosexualy likely mirrored what would have been found the populatn at large.