Matelotage was a gay marriage of sorts practiced by male pirat om the seventeenth century. Some of the most succsful pirat had relatnships wh ...
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- OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH MAK GAY PIRAT BOTH CASUAL AND IMPORTANT
- GAY PIRAT: AN EXPLANATN TO THE ILLY SHIRTS?
OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH MAK GAY PIRAT BOTH CASUAL AND IMPORTANT
* what did the gay pirate say *
In Sodomy and the Pirate Tradn: English Sea Rovers the Seventeenth Century Caribbean, Profsor Barry Richard Burg wr that matelotage was “an stutnalized lkg of bucneer and another male — most often a youth — a relatnship wh clearly homosexual characteristics. All but the wealthy ele uld be jailed or even killed for homosexualy.
Even the pirate world, homosexualy wasn’t que accepted as the norm.
GAY PIRAT: AN EXPLANATN TO THE ILLY SHIRTS?
In terms of exactly how mon same-sex romance was among pirat, historians today generally believe that rat of homosexualy likely mirrored what would have been found the populatn at large.
The progrsive story stands out as a landmark succs for gay reprentatn worthy of analysis s own right.