me irl: the sonnets are queer, mercutio’s queer, iago wants to have sex with othello, puck and oberon are totally hooking up, emilia and desdemona are probably making out, are u fuckin kidding me with brutus/cassius rn, hamlet’s ace and doin queer shit w/horatio, phebe’s kinda gay for rosalind, nO ONE IS STRAIGHT
me in my term paper: well, the historical context is important for considering the hypothetical queerness of shakespeare’s characters, and we can’t ever really say anything for sure, but shakespeare’s ambiguous wording and use of complex scenarios that obscure gender open the texts to possibilities for queer readings maybe sometimes I don’t know