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The History of Homosexuality
There wasn't enough queer subtext in the movie version, as compared to the mediaeval poem. At this time, it was not all that unusual for men who have friendly relations with one another to kiss - even to kiss on the lips. Sexual sins were om pretty minor. It was the sort of thing you could indulge in and then just, you know, confess, do some penance and forget about it. That was starting to change somewhat in the fourteenth century.