The seri om Rodi, a gay novelist, playwright and ic book thor, and Lewis, a queer artist who's worked for Oni sce 2009, is not simply an off-kilter, clever versn of a story that everyone already knows. In talkg to the creators, 's clear that their visn and ambn is a gree higher: "Merry Men" will be a pellg, dramatic, even vlent seri (albe wh lighter moments) starrg men who 21st century rears would jt happen to intify as gay.
Contents:
- MERRY MEN EXPLOR THE QUTN 'WHAT IF ROB HOOD WAS GAY?'
- REIMAGG ROB HOOD AS A BADASS GAY OUTLAW
- ROB HOOD, MERRY MEN REIMAGED AS GAY ‘BURLY MEN THE WOODS’
- NEW IC TWIST ON ROB HOOD TO SHOW ROUGH, TOUGH 'MERRY MEN' -- WHO HAPPEN TO BE GAY
MERRY MEN EXPLOR THE QUTN 'WHAT IF ROB HOOD WAS GAY?'
We talk to the creative team of Merry Men, a ic that re-imag Rob Hood and his Merry Men as gay. * robin hood is gay *
What if they were all gay? This alternate take on the classic hero and his patrts go back to the legend’s roots and rebuilds around an LGBT talked to the creative team about where this ia me om, how gay people were perceived back those days (’s very different than today), and how beg historilly accurate adds to the story. A few years ago I me across some discsn of whether "Rob Hood" was gay—i.
IGN: How, if at all, do beg gay change the character of Rob Hood? What sort of rearch did you do to how homosexualy was perceived and treated the era of Rob Hood? In other words, there were— morn terms—gay acts, but not gay people.
REIMAGG ROB HOOD AS A BADASS GAY OUTLAW
England's legendary outlaw Rob Hood was gay, preferrg his "merrie men" to Maid Marian, a leadg English lerature profsor ntends. * robin hood is gay *
(“Homosexual” is a much later term. That's how I'm treatg them Merry Men; though even there, some of the st are exclively gay, and some are ls so.
Was important to you to reprent not jt gay men but the entire LGBTQ spectm? In the book, "merry" is a term that's analogo to our "gay, " but 's much more poro; clus anyone whose sexual life strays outsi the bonds of the strictly heterosexual norm.
Men aren't notorly monogamo, and pecially not 12th century gay men livg the fort. And gay guys get to be actn hero, which hardly ever happens. <i> From Rters</i> LONDON — England’s legendary outlaw Rob Hood was gay, preferrg his “merrie men” to Maid Marian, a leadg English lerature profsor reasssment of one of Bra’s greatt folk hero was greeted by gay activists as a wele, if belated, “outg.
ROB HOOD, MERRY MEN REIMAGED AS GAY ‘BURLY MEN THE WOODS’
In a new ic book seri by Oni Prs, the legendary swordsman Rob Hood and his Merry Men are a bunch of burly gay guys the woods * robin hood is gay *
Stephen Knight, profsor of English lerature at Cardiff Universy, cid Rob Hood was gay after studyg 14th century ballads that are the earlit known acunts of his eds. “The ballads uld not say outright that he was gay bee of the prevailg moral climate, but they do nta a great al of erotic imagery, ” he said the ballads showed that Maid Marian--always scribed as Rob Hood’s te love--never thks her name was add by 16th century thors who wanted the outlaw who robbed om the rich to give to the poor to be more rpectable to heterosexual theory won backg om Barry Dobson, profsor of medieval history at the Universy of Cambridge. “In the 12th century homosexualy was accepted, but the 13th the church beme much ls tolerant, and such people were driven unrground, ” he Hood has always been portrayed as an aristocrat who beme an outlaw after his lands were nfisted by Kg John the Tatchell of the gay rights group Outrage was lighted by the new theory: “His liftyle alone was enough to provoke speculatn.
It’s about time school history lsons acknowledged the ntributn of famo homosexuals. Tled, simply enough, Merry Men, the ic book is wrten and created by out wrer Robert Rodi, wh art by Jackie Lewis, and featur a bold new story that rests the faiar medieval characters as gay Men might sound at first like a lightfully mpy seri, but is que the oppose.
NEW IC TWIST ON ROB HOOD TO SHOW ROUGH, TOUGH 'MERRY MEN' -- WHO HAPPEN TO BE GAY
The ic is a ground, realistic look to a world where Rob Hood, still the faiar rogueish lear livg the woods wh his band of outlaws wh a good e, is now also a badass homosexual who ris up the face of discrimatn and opprsn. Rodi: I'm a history buff -- ancient and medieval pecially -- and I was lurkg around some webs when I me across the qutn "Was Rob Hood gay?
One of the tertg thgs you haven't seen yet, bee 's an upg issue, is the revelatn that our villa, Prce John, cis to e the oft-quoted passage Levic for polil reasons; 's a means of gettg at the gay alli of his brother, Kg Richard. One of the ways I'm tryg to be te to the perd is that the 12th century there was no ncept of homosexualy per se; the term self was hundreds of years om beg was same-sex activy, of urse, but that was seen as a behavral issue, not as an exprsn of inty. Acrdgly, some of the Merry Men are bisexual, others entirely gay, and there's one -- I won't say which right now -- who is actually straight, but who feels a sense of gratu and loyalty to another member of the group that manifts self as a kd of romantic love.
It was a liberate choice, and a b of a difficult one for me, bee I'm prcipally known as a satirist; my novels om the '90s -- Fag Hag, Closet Case, Kept Boy, and so on -- were all farcil tak on gay archetyp. Also, my first ics seri was a spy spoof lled Coname: Knockout, whose heroe had a gay sikick named Go-Go Fias.