Black sails gay storyline

‘Black Sails’ has finally made its way to Netflix, and we’re already obsessed with it. But we especially love the gay characters — gay pirates are in!. Rather than an inherent identity that has existed across time and space, the homosexual identity emerged directly out of a discourse of repression. Foucault was not the first to suggest that sexuality emerges out of its cultural context and power relations, and his theories are far from flawless. For example, The History of Sexuality makes no consideration of how interactions with non-Western communities shaped Western ideas of gender and sexuality.

Most of the characters on Black Sails spend the series wrestling with that question. Queer people rarely get to see themselves represented in historical narratives, let alone represented positively. Esta matéria foi originalmente publicada na VICE US. Na maioria das séries de televisão passadas antes do século 20, pouquíssimos personagens não são hétero. Às vezes — muito raramente —, o personagem queer está num relacionamento que dura mais de uma temporada, mas as chances disso acontecer caem consideravelmente quanto mais séria uma série de TV tenta ser.

Black Sails: Gayer than you remember? Not unlike Max’s more recent pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death, Black Sails uses the well-argued belief that homosexuality was common on the high seas as a. Now that Black Sails is finally on Netflix , millions of viewers worldwide who had never heard of the Starz series will get to experience one of the best and most underrated prestige television series of all time. The historical fictional nature of the show sets it in the early 18th century during the Golden Age of Piracy, and while there are depictions of real historical figures , Black Sails takes many liberties with these characters. In addition, several of the characters on the show are gay or queer in some way, reminding us of the sexual fluidity of pirates in Our Flag Means Death.

I can't say whether Black Sails is the same, I'm going to start it and hope for the best, but the way people have defended it in the comments makes it seem like they just reference a guy is gay and think that's sufficient representation. On a side note, for anyone into gay pirates, read/listen to Kidnapped by the Pirate by Keira Andrews. Sometimes—very rarely—there will be one relationship that lasts more than a season, though chances of that decline the more seriously a show tries to take itself. Although it aimed to be prestige TV for much of its run, the queer characters on Black Sails were never secondary. In fact, their choices, romantic and otherwise, were the bedrock of the show.