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Contents:

• WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
• WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• 11 PIEC OF EVINCE WE HAD A GAY SHAKPEARE
• WAS SHAKPEARE GAY, AND DO MATTER?
• SHAKPEARE’S CHARACTERS WERE A LOT GAYER THAN YOU THK
• SHAKPEARE HAD GAY CHARACTERS TOO, PEOPLE JT IGNORED : SIR IAN MCKELLEN

WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?

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.

WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?

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 will Romeo be up to Toronto’s High Park this summer? Actors today’s theatre regularly portray the relatnships as homosexual, and ed actors are often crlo toward anyone who doubts that to be the se.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

In Troil and Crsida, Patrocl is moured to be Achill’ “mascule whore” (V, 1, le 17), as is suggted Homer, and certaly the two are very close iendship, though Patrocl do admonish Achill to engage battle by sayg, A woman impunt and mannish grown Is not more loathed than an effemate man In time of actn Aga, on the morn stage this relatnship is often portrayed as obvly, even flagrantly, sexual; but whether Shakpeare saw as such, or the play valoriz homosexualy or bisexualy, is another matter. “It’s bee fashnable sce the mid-1980s to thk of Shakpeare as gay. Vickers, a visg profsor at Universy College London, asserted that a Tim Lerary Supplement book review was wrong to state that Shakpeare’s 119 son was wrten a “primarily homosexual ntext”.

In 1640, a prtg of his sons changed most of the male pronouns to female to obscure any reference to potential homosexualy. Was Shakpeare gay?

Revealgly, ’s often posed ways that draw attentn to the bate: ‘I’ve been told that Shakpeare was gay – is that te?

11 PIEC OF EVINCE WE HAD A GAY SHAKPEARE

’ ‘I asked my teacher if Shakpeare was gay and he said no – what do you thk? It’s not that ’s exactly hard to fd a homoerotic sensibily Shakpeare’s works. It’s not hard to fd homoerotic sensibily Shakpeare’s works: Twelfth Night, Orso falls love wh Car, not realisg he’s a she.

‘Our morn words for sexual orientatn – gay, straight, homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual – are all neteenth or twentieth-century ag’.

WAS SHAKPEARE GAY, AND DO MATTER?

The poet Don Paterson wr his recent mentary on Shakpeare’s Sons that they are lerary proof posive of his bisexual or gay inty. For one thg, our morn words for sexual orientatn – gay, straight, homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual – are all neteenth or twentieth-century ag.

Most historians are of the view that early morn people didn’t thk of themselv as gay or straight. Most historians are of the view that early morn people didn’t thk of themselv as gay or straight (not that those words rried their morn meangs any se). What we now specify as homosexualy was fed to the culture at large, ctoms, practic and social stutns.

SHAKPEARE’S CHARACTERS WERE A LOT GAYER THAN YOU THK

Wispread same-sex bed-sharg, the high value placed on sgle-genr iendship, and a generally un-pdish attu to bodily functns created an environment which homosexual acts, while technilly illegal, went virtually unreported and unpunished. And I thk ’s bee ‘Was Shakpeare gay? For what ’s worth, when I pot my lerary gaydar at Shakpeare I get a maybe.

SHAKPEARE HAD GAY CHARACTERS TOO, PEOPLE JT IGNORED : SIR IAN MCKELLEN

But that’s not to say there weren’t other wrers of the time for whom homoerotic subject matter and sexual inty seem to our ey to overlap.