Painting Fuels Speculation That Shakespeare Was Gay
from the much-ado-about-not-a-hell-of-a-lot dept.
From Reuters comes this story of a 16th-century portrait, long believed to be of a British noblewoman, but now believed to show a foppish male friend and patron of William Shakespeare, leading London tabloids to speculate that The Bard was actually light in the loafers. Asked for comment on his supposed outing, Shakespeare would only say, “The course of true love never did run straight – er, smooth. Never did run smooth.”
