A queer historian asss the historil accuracy of the gay stuff the Mary Queen of Sts movie.
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I am a 62 year old gay man. I have traveled on the Queen Mary 2 six tim the last three years wh my Hband. Each time there was an cint which we mostly lghed off. We even tried to lgh off beg sulted by the pta at a receptn ont of more than 100 people. * queen mary 2 gay friendly *
We spent some fantastic evengs wh some tly great crew members, homophobia jt didn't e to the mix, eher wh fellow passengers or the crew. We've sce moved away om Cunard to other l and have tried everythg om Fred Olsen to Sea Dream via Celebry and RCI, aga all wh happy memori and no homophobic issu.
O is much more laid-back than many other l and is very gay iendly, although I have to say that this day and age I prefer not to be fed by sexualy. "We know of urse that same-sex attractn and romance go back to time immemorial, but the term "homosexual" is a morn phenomenon.
Queer historians by and large see the Victorian trial of Osr Wil for "gross cency, " and the way played out the media and public sphere, as the transformative moment whereby a person who engaged homosexual acts beme a homosexual person -- and that wasn't until three hundred years later after Mary. For that reason, addn to the difficulty of "provg" feelgs or sexual acts of the past, and society's long-entrenched culture of homophobia, historians have largely shied away om intifyg historil figur as anythg other than mak Guy's clear scriptn of Darnley strikg, but rerds reveal a number of his tractors rorted to thly-veiled homophobia to discred him. We have homosexual characters, right?