Is dr house gay
Was Shakespeare Gay?
Image: Dedication in Shakespeare's Sonnets, discussed in this episode.
This week's guests (in direct of appearance) are:
- Dr Elizabeth Dollimore, Outreach and Central Learning Manager at the SBT
- Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute
- Professor Sir Stanley Wells, Honorary President of the SBT
- Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Narrator: Jennifer Reid
Transcript
REID: Hello, and welcome to the seventh episode of “Let’s Talk Shakespeare”, a podcast brought to you from Stratford-upon-Avon by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. I’m Jennifer Reid, and today we’re asking, “Was Shakespeare gay?”
So before we obtain started, just wanted to give you a wee cause warning: although there’s nothing in this week’s content that’s meant to bring about offence, it might raise some questions about some more adult themes, so you probably desire to just provide it a whizz through before listening along with any young listeners. And in previous podcasts, I’ve played you lots of concise clips from a variety of speakers, but this week I’m going to do it slightly differently, and act you fewer,
Me: In S6 E15, “Black Hole” House tells Wilson to acquire furniture for their shared condo and after Wilson has a decorator choose all the furniture for him Property returns it and tells Wilson to pick something himself, one single piece of furniture which says something about him. Wilson agonises over this, spending a whole time trying to uncover something and then bemoaning his inability to do so to Cuddy, who tells him it says more about him that he’s letting House create him think this much about it. In the finish he pays another decorator to furnish the condo, but does pick out one thing for himself....... For Home. He buys Dwelling an organ piano, Wilson cannot participate the piano himself and bought it specifically for Property, admitting to himself, House and the audience that Cuddy was right; Wilson defines himself by his relationship to House and wants House to understand this, and Property accepts it as Wilson having picked that to be the thing Wilson wants to tell about himself, it’s as good as a marriage plan, And in this essay I will
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House and Schrödinger’s Queerbait
I’m pretty confident in saying that House changed my life.
A bit uninspiringly, House didn’t change my animation with any life lessons. What changed my experience was House and Wilson’s dynamic, and its undeniable gay subtext.
Is it queerbait? Queerbait is defined as cis, straight creators manufacturing a relationship between two people of the alike gender that seems to be going beyond friendship as a way to attract an LGBT audience, but never committing to it, as it would alienate the cis, vertical part of their audience.
There were plenty of vertical cis people involved in the creation of Home and Wilson’s dynamic, which never goes anywhere beyond two dysfunctional best friends But there are also two writers, Liz Freidman and Sara Hess, both of whom are women-loving women and who wrote some of the most subtext-heavy episodes in House. The actor who played Home, Hugh Laurie, spoke favorably of a romantic meaning, and one of the producers, Katie Jacobs, was known in the LiveJournal days as the patron saint of House/Wilson.
So what happened there? Was it all a ploy to attract a ga