Is dr house gay
Was Shakespeare Gay?
Image: Dedication in Shakespeare's Sonnets, discussed in this episode.
This week's guests (in order of appearance) are:
- Dr Elizabeth Dollimore, Outreach and Central Learning Manager at the SBT
- Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute
- Professor Sir Stanley Wells, Honorary President of the SBT
- Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Narrator: Jennifer Reid
Transcript
REID: Hello, and welcome to the seventh episode of “Let’s Talk Shakespeare”, a podcast brought to you from Stratford-upon-Avon by the Shakespeare Birthplace Believe. I’m Jennifer Reid, and today we’re asking, “Was Shakespeare gay?”
So before we get started, just wanted to give you a wee trigger warning: although there’s nothing in this week’s content that’s meant to cause offence, it might raise some questions about some more grown-up themes, so you probably want to just donate it a whizz through before listening along with any young listeners. And in previous podcasts, I’ve played you lots of short clips from a variety of speakers, but this week I’m going to do it slightly differently, and play you fewer,
House and Schrödinger’s Queerbait
I’m pretty confident in saying that House changed my life.
A bit uninspiringly, House didn’t change my existence with any life lessons. What changed my existence was House and Wilson’s dynamic, and its undeniable gay subtext.
Is it queerbait? Queerbait is defined as cis, straight creators manufacturing a relationship between two people of the similar gender that seems to be going beyond friendship as a way to attract an LGBT audience, but never committing to it, as it would alienate the cis, linear part of their audience.
There were plenty of linear cis people involved in the creation of Residence and Wilson’s dynamic, which never goes anywhere beyond two dysfunctional best friends But there are also two writers, Liz Freidman and Sara Hess, both of whom are women-loving women and who wrote some of the most subtext-heavy episodes in House. The actor who played Residence, Hugh Laurie, spoke favorably of a romantic perception, and one of the producers, Katie Jacobs, was known in the LiveJournal days as the patron saint of House/Wilson.
So what happened there? Was it all a ploy to attract a ga
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Me: In S6 E15, “Black Hole” House tells Wilson to buy furniture for their shared condo and after Wilson has a decorator pick all the furniture for him House returns it and tells Wilson to pick something himself, one single piece of furniture which says something about him. Wilson agonises over this, spending a whole day trying to find something and then bemoaning his inability to do so to Cuddy, who tells him it says more about him that he’s letting Residence make him think this much about it. In the end he pays another decorator to furnish the condo, but does pick out one thing for himself....... For Dwelling. He buys House an organ piano, Wilson cannot play the piano himself and bought it specifically for House, admitting to himself, House and the audience that Cuddy was right; Wilson defines himself by his relationship to House and wants Dwelling to know this, and House accepts it as Wilson having picked that to be the thing Wilson wants to tell about himself, it’s as good as a marriage proposal, And in this essay I will
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