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Tennesee Williams was gay, sheds some light on his stuff, yep.
Same as with Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, E.M. Forester, Oscar Wilde
(if for any reason you didn't know) Melville, most likely.
Shakespeare was obviously a man of conflicted selves. Of many selves.
Identity, changing it, transforming who you are, the wearing
of disguises, strong sympathetic identification with women, all
of these things point to a man who wasn't just one thing.
He was full of things, all things. So, now in the 20th century,
little minds who sit on the internet can cast some kind of
limits on shakespeare and feel satisfied, well, good for you.
But everything he wrote tells a different story, it speaks
otherwise. He was a man as bright and whole as the day,
as dark and full of shadows as the night. But stick him in a box if
it makes you feel good.
Posted by Bill Routhier on April 12, 1997 at 22:36:54
In Reply to "Poppycock" posted by Bruce Spielbauer on April 09, 1997 at 15:38:23
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