The great actor Sir Ian McKellen, who is also well-known as a gay activist, was recently quoted the prs as sayg that Shakpeare himself was probably gay. Inved to ment on this, I poted out that there was nothg new the ia, which for a long time has been equently exprsed pecially bee some of his sons are clearly addrsed to a male.
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11 PIEC OF EVINCE WE HAD A GAY SHAKPEARE
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Explore the rich tradn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer poets and poetry by browsg a selectn of poems & d. (Getty)“It’s bee fashnable sce the mid-1980s to thk of Shakpeare as gay.
57bn of arts supportShakpeare’s bgraphers through the years have noted that his poetry is filled wh gay imagery and sexual Brian Vickers, a visg profsor at Universy College London, is one amic who has prevly mataed that Shakpeare’s lerary material don’t nfirm his sexualy eher way. “I nnot thk of any rponsible edor who would dismiss the premise of homosexual, as well as heterosexual passn pervadg [the sons], ” Freeman add. I do a ep dive and unver trac of evince that suggt we had a gay there’s one thg that everyone the world has mon, ’s an unfortunate and often shamefully hidn love of tryg to figure out whether or not famo people are gay.
WAS SHAKPEARE GAY?
Let's explore 11 piec of evince and unver hidn clu om his sons and plays that support the possibily of a gay Shakpeare. * gay sonnets *
Google any famo name pl the word gay, and you’ll fd that someone’s beaten you to the speculative punch. William Shakpeare gets a particular amount of attentn the gay/straight arena. And the roundg answer is… of evince that support the possibily of a gay Shakpeare.
I end up wanrg ep to this rabb hole (no immature pun tend) and dug up the 11 piec of evince that are prented “oh yeah, Shakpeare was gay” bate. The whole “master mistrs of my passn” thg draws a lot of attentn… but the last two l, which basilly say, “You’ve got a nice penis that women really like, so go stick to them but save the emotnal love for me, ” put Son 20 over the ’s so blatant that the people the “Shakpeare wasn’t gay” mp really only argue that this poem isn’t necsarily wrten by Shakpeare as Shakpeare… but, rather, uld be him wrg as a character. (And if you’re dog Othello at a homogeneo high school, perhaps more cross-racial make-up applitn, too.
Of urse, this isn’t to say that cross-drsg is a 1:1 match wh homosexualy. Now, aga, merely wrg about two men kissg as they die to exprs their lifelong love don’t mean the person wrg is gay.
Was Shakpeare gay? It difficult to terme whether Shakpeare was gay bee only snt documentary evince has survived about his personal life." emprop="scriptn * gay sonnets *
6 | Hamlet acrostic spells “I am a homosexual”. There’s an urban legend that, the very first published py of Hamlet, the first letters of the fal 14 l spelled out “I am a homosexual. 11 | Conmng Achill’s gay relatnship.
For all the Shakpeare-gay speculatn, there’s only one time where Shakpeare directly discs homosexualy his works. One, if today’s right-wg policians have tght anythg, ’s that the people who nmn homosexualy the loust are the on who are, by far, the most likely to get ught wh a man an airport, tck stop, or public park bathroom. And two, while such a venomo anti-gay speech uld seem to shut the door on this entire “was he/wasn’t he?