SHAKES-QUEER? New Evidence Emerges to Prove William Shakespeare may be Gay

Ananova Breaking News Wire and the London Daily Sun ^ | Monday, April 22, 2002 00:14 GMT | What Tomorrow's Newspapers Say Staff

[codebreaker]

Ananova Breaking Wire-

What the Papers Say-The London Daily Sun

SHAKESQUEER

Me thinks new evidence has emerged that doth suggest William Shakespeare might have been gay.

I RULE

Tony Blair delivered an astonishing slapdown to Gordon Brown yesterday by stressing that Britain had elected him to run the country not the chancellor

Story Filed: 00:14 Monday, April 22, 2002 Greenwich Mean Time

[codebreaker]

I seen these same experts on cable argue this case before, wonder what this stunning 'new development' is..

[scouse]

That's right, everyone who ever lived, is living, and will live in the future is a homo.

Does that include the Neanderthals? Is that the reason they went extinct?

[Alouette]

they seem to come up with a new celebrity press release each month who 'could be' gay...

Could it be...oh, no!

[Loyalist]

In Shakespeare's day, women were not allowed to perform on stage. All women's roles were played by boys dressed in women's clothing. Shakespeare wrote women's roles for boys. Homosexuals like to go after boys. Some of them like to dress up in women's clothing. Therefore Shakespeare was homosexual. QED. < /sarcasm >

[aristeides]

Your hypothesis on the relationship between Shakespeare and his boy-actors sounds similar to that of priests and their altar boys.

The parallel is drawn pretty clearly in Olivier's classic movie of Shakespeare's Henry V.

[scouse]

boys dressed in women's clothing.

That tradition was still played in a reversal every Christmas during the pantomimes which are a theatrical staple in the UK. The lead males are all played by woman.

It can cause quite a lot of worry when a boy going through puberty gets the hots for the Dick Whittington character. Thank Heaven my mother was a wise woman.

[constitutiongirl]

They've already claimed that, too. They've even gone so far as to say that John the Apostle was Jesus' boy-lover.

[Merdoug]

Oh no, here we go again. Won't the fairies ever give-up in trying to pervert our history? I wish these deviants would just shut up, lock their doors and b***er each other out of our sight.

[hgro]

"I have no doubts that Good ole Bill was gay, but find it next to impossible to think of him as a perverted sodomite homosexual"

How about a perverted sodomite homosexual JERK?

[Betty Jane]

This is great. Shakespeare being gay takes him off the cursed dead white male undesirables. Now that he is homosexual we can see a re emergence of shakespeare being taught in public schools. I say celebrate this diversity, (if teachers still knbow how teach Othello).

[Loyalist]

Homosexuals are like Chicago Democrats: they both recruit the dead!

[aristeides]

There is strong evidence that Plato, Sophocles, and Pindar were homosexual, among leading Greek writers. There is reasonable evidence that Virgil was. That fact doesn't seem to have preserved their place in the curriculum. The leftist educrats will only use an author's homosexuality to defend or preserve him if he can be used to support their leftist agenda (well, actually, Plato could be used for that purpose, but they're too stupid to see that.)

[Thumper1960]

"Hom(e)o, Hom(e)o, where for art thou, Hom(e)o?"

[putupon]

William Shakespeare is DEAD

AIDS must have done him in.

[Ole Okie]

NEWS FLASH

William Shakespeare is DEAD

Shakespeare dead??? Oh sob.

I didn't even know he was sick.

Oh, you mean Shakspeare.

[Physicist]

Add that he was an actor. A theatre person.

Yeah, and how about that goatee?

[Gaston]

Shakespeare wasn’t gay although he was a thespian when he was younger.

[Dog Gone]

Now that he is homosexual we can see a re-emergence of shakespeare being taught in public schools.

LOL. Great take.