A Look at Queerness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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The first 100 people to go to https://www.blinkist.com/kazrowe will get unlimited access for 1 week to try out Blinkist! You'll also get 25% off if you want the full membership. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has long been known for its homoerotic subtext. What is the history of that, and how does it relate to the mishandling of queerness in the new The Green Knight movie? Come learn with me! Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KazRowe I'm on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/kaz.rowe Buy my comics: https://gumroad.com/kazrowe Send me a ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A347K4X Read my webcomic: https://www.cunningfire.com/ Catch it on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/cunning-fire Line Webtoons: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/cunning-fire/list?title_no=59016 - Sources: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous MASCULINITY AND CHIVALRY: THE TENUOUS RELATIONSHIP OF THE SACRED AND SECULAR IN MEDIEVAL ARTHURIAN LITERATURE by KACI MCCOURT The invention of sodomy in Christian theology by Mark D. Jordan Sir Lancelot Of The Lake: A French Prose Romance Of The Thirteenth Century Anna Klosowska Roberts, Queer Love in the Middle Ages Knight : the warrior and world of chivalry by Jones, Robert W The Green Knight’s Ending, Explained by Joanna Robinson https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/07/green-knight-ending-explained-does-he-die-gawain-dev-patel ON LESBIAN AND GAY/QUEER MEDIEVAL STUDIES by DAVID LORENZO BOYD Sir Gawain’s Penitential Development from Attrition to Contrition by patrick outhwaite Gay Knights and Gay Rights: Same-Sex Desire in Late Medieval Europe and its Presence in Arthurian Literature by Dorien Zwart 'A Mayde, and Last of Youre Blood': Galahad's Asexuality and its Significance in "Le Morte D'arthur" by MEGAN ARKENBERG A Kiss Is Just a Kiss: Heterosexuality and Its Consolations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Carolyn Dinshaw Knight in Tarnished Armour: The Meaning of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by Gordon M. Shedd Medieval Misogyny and Gawain's Outburst against Women in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by Gerald Morgan Genesis and Gender in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by Catherine S. Cox Sodomy, Misogyny, and Displacement: Occluding Queer Desire in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by DAVID L. BOYD