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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- OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH MAK GAY PIRAT BOTH CASUAL AND IMPORTANT
- GAY PIRAT: AN EXPLANATN TO THE ILLY SHIRTS?
OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH MAK GAY PIRAT BOTH CASUAL AND IMPORTANT
* what did the gay pirate say *
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.
GAY PIRAT: AN EXPLANATN TO THE ILLY SHIRTS?
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. The progrsive story stands out as a landmark succs for gay reprentatn worthy of analysis s own right. As s gay characters and their same-sex relatnships me to the fore, they did not ially seem to be the fol pot of the ma plot.