Queer 101 with Peppermint & Hugh Ryan EP1 - Straight Acting w/author Will Tosh 🌈 📚

Peppermint and Hugh Ryan sit down with Will Tosh to explore Straight Acting—an incisive biography that reimagines William Shakespeare as a queer artist shaped by the vibrant gender and sexual cultures of his time. From his Stratford schoolroom to smoky London taverns, bustling playhouses, and the royal court, Tosh traces how Shakespeare’s early works drew deeply from homoerotic traditions and queer spaces woven into everyday life. Together, they uncover how repression and expression coexisted in Elizabethan England, why Shakespeare eventually turned from his early gender-bending plays, and what this hidden history reveals about queerness at the heart of English literature.

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