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The Homosexuality Discourse in "Sir Gawain and The Leafy Knight"
While Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is, for the most part, a heroic poem about a heroic knight who resists temptation, the story also has an fascinating dialogue on sexuality interwoven in its lines. From King Arthur’s “ebullience” (line 86) all the way to the sexually charged trades with the lord near the Green Knight’s residence, the poem can be taken to own a positive view of homosexuality, an almost unthinkable thing at the hour. To find this endorsement of homosexuality, one must look at the portrayal of men in the story versus women, and take that thread to one of its many logical conclusions.
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Women in the Anglo-Saxon poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, were often seen as lesser than men in a Medieval time setting. In the poem, women favor Guinevere were seen as social constructs of what an ideal woman should be in male-dominated population. These social constructs were noted in the launch of the poem at a Christmas festival in Kin
The Green Knight (BUT IT’S GAY)
A fantastically funny retelling of the medieval classic The Green Knight with the sub-text made text! (Spoiler art: it’s gay.)
Sir Gawain’s been peer-pressured into chopping off the Lush Knight’s head. And now he has to let the miraculously still-alive Emerald Knight return the favour. Disaster! King Arthur reckons this is grand as Gawain needs to be more masculine anyway and everybody knows there’s nothing manlier than a good head chopping off… so there’s really no way out.
Created and performed by award-winning (Charlie Harthill Award, Pleasance Theatre 2025) and critically-acclaimed “storytelling genius” (The Scotsman) Niall Moorjani, associate directed by Cecily Nash, and produced in association with Scotland’s award-winning, touring literary theatre company Some Kind of Theatre, this new adaptation fabulously queers an Arthurian classic for the modern world.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK) is a 14th Century chivalric Love affair poem written in Middle English. It is best acknowledged for the doubt between the two eponymous characters: at Christmas time in King Arthur’s court a terrible emerald knight appears and asks anyone to strike him a blow with the condition that he may return it. Thinking himself a big man, Gawain severs the Leafy Knight’s head from his shoulders, and the court is horrified when the knight merely picks up his severed head and leaves, calling on Gawain to keep his end of the bargain by inquiring him out in a year’s hour. It’s a trope that is seen in a rare early Romances, a challenge of courage that seems insurmountable yet is very rarely fatal. There is however an undercurrent of gender subversion and queer vs homosocial want in SGGK that marks out its position at the tail end of chivalric Romance.
It is first important to consider chivalric homosocial culture, as it was more unseal to men exhibiting affection, being emotionally close, even kissing as part of a culture of brotherhood and back, than many male spaces today. Indeed I know a man who blanches at hugging his own son, as he considers it feminine t
ANOTHER TEN GAWAIN AND LANCELOT QUOTES WHICH RENDER ME GAY AND INSANE
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10. Quoth Sir Lancelot: "By the Lord who made me, and who shall be Doom's-man at the last day, come what may thereof, since Sir Gawain rideth hence 'tis not I will bide behind! Rather will I attempt what may chance, and adventure all that God hath given me, for he sought me with all his power when I was in secret case, and brought me once more to court—for that do I owe him faith and fellowship."
-- Lancelot about Gawain, Morien
9. “When it was completely light, the king got up, readied himself, and entered the room where Lancelot and Gawain had slept.”
-- a brief one but it haunts me. why did they sleep in the same room in camelot, there are definitely enough rooms. the vulgate or whatever I NEED ANSWERS
8. “I shall go further than that my lord,’ he said, ‘because I feel that Lancelot is so innocent of the whole affair that there is no knight in the world, however good, whom I would not meet in combat to defend Lancelot if he accused him.”
-- Gawain defends Lancelot to Arthur despite knowing that he is super duper guilty, The Vulgat