The Art of Piracy
Imaginary Worlds
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A Voyage to the South Sea and Around the World by Captain Ward Cook
The show explores whether the connection between blackbeard and bonnet was more than platonic. Nuch says, this is also something people in real life have been speculating about for a long time. The degree to which we can understand pirates as kind of like a queer friendly working environmentis debated to an extent. Did men on boats have sex with each other? Yes they did. Sure two pirats coud have fallen in love. Why not? There are other gay characters in the show and a non binary character played by a non binary actor.
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