Black sails gay scene

The cult-favorite queer show Black Sails is trending on Netflix, and for good reason: it’s chock-full of gay pirates. ‘Black Sails’ has finally made its way to Netflix, and we’re already obsessed with it. Black Sails is a love letter to revolutionary queerness and encapsulates queer joy, grief and rage better than many shows out there.

And I have personally rarely seen a take that so badly misinterprets the show it wants to comment on. There's no comparison, stand down. Black Sails: Gayer than you remember?

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Banning Stephen King books is silly. It's inspiring, complex, funny, tragic, and an absolute masterpiece. The Black Sails fandom has had its time to run through all the controversies and the meta posts and the debates, sure, but new people watching the show means a new influx of opinions—which are always welcome, even though some of them have really bristled the entire fanbase of people that have been gallivanting on the Walrus ever since Not only are several characters queer and shown to be having queer relationships on screen, but queerness as a whole is the major driving force behind the plot—everything started and everything continues because of it.

If you’re unfamiliar with the series, a quick primer: Black Sails aired from to on Starz. A whopping seven years after its series finale, the single best pirate show ever created is finally available to stream on Netflix. Not unlike Max’s more recent pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death, Black Sails uses the well-argued belief that homosexuality was common on the high seas as a.

Created by showrunners Jonathan E. Exceptional acting, of course, but also killer cinematography and scripts, as well as one of the best opening themes and overall soundtracks ever put to television courtesy of Bear McCreary.

We need to stop letting autograph hounds get away with this. The show is filled with heavy themes—so check for trigger warnings ahead—but these themes are handled so masterfully that it never feels exploitative. This article contains mild spoilers for Black Sails.

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Everyone 39 s obsessed : Most of the characters on Black Sails spend the series wrestling with that question

She has considered being in fandom a defining character trait since she was in middle school and wasn't old enough to read the fanfiction she was definitely reading and loves dragons, complex magic systems, unhinged female characters, tragic villains and good queer representation.

By Benedetta Geddo Apr 23rd,pm. But we especially love the gay characters — gay pirates are in!.