HBO Max’s "gay pirate show" Our Flag Means Death has built a fast, tense fandom, built part around Rhys Darby and Taika Wai’s big kiss as Ste Bon and Blackbeard. Check out some of the tremendo art dience members are creatg.
Contents:
- THE SHADOW THAT QUEERBAG CASTS ON GAY ROMANCE
- OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH MAK GAY PIRAT BOTH CASUAL AND IMPORTANT
THE SHADOW THAT QUEERBAG CASTS ON GAY ROMANCE
“.. you start really diggg, [pirat] were gettg gay married, they were havg polyamoro relatnships,” the star of HBO Max's newt edy tells Out. * our flag means death gay *
The Shadow That Queerbag Casts on Gay RomanceOur Flag Means Death featur a queer love story, but many viewers still found themselv wonrg if they were jt imagg Epste / HBO MaxThis article was featured One Story to Read Today, a newsletter which our edors remend a sgle mt-read om The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Even if tensn exists between a possibly gay uple over multiple episos, queer viewers particular n still worry: Am I jt imagg this? Gay culture and athetics have long been extremely appealg to the mastream.
But homophobic laws and sentiments still have broad support Ameri, and televisn sometim seems aaid to m to LGBTQ stori. When Netflix’s Regency romance Bridgerton recently returned for a send season, dropped any fa of Benedict Bridgerton potentially beg gay or bisexual, spe the fact that he flirts wh a gay artist Season 1.
The move felt egreg to many viewers, pecially those who remembered an early trailer that falsely implied gay romance would be more proment on the sex-heavy A gui to 2022’s most promisg TVOur Flag Means Death handl televisn’s legacy of lettg LGBTQ viewers down by makg the show unniably queer, even if Ste and Ed ially don’t appear to be. When the feroc first mate Izzy Hands tch the crew members Black Pete and Luci hookg up, he’s angry not bee he’s homophobic, but bee they’re slackg off.
OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH MAK GAY PIRAT BOTH CASUAL AND IMPORTANT
* our flag means death gay *
” And the show giv viewers an onscreen kiss the penultimate episo—before leavg their future qutn by the fale’s slow-burn gay romanc have managed to avoid queerbag.