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[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I mean, have you seen how they dressed?

Pirates were also largely LGBT/PoC - the maligned of society. The practice of a captain marrying people at sea supposedly started with pirates marrying gay couples because they couldn't get married onshore.

Pirates are like the definition of Be Gay, Do Crime.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Born too late to be a gay pirate.

Born too soon to be a gay space pirate.

Born just in time for the cyberpunk dystopia.

[–] OrganicMustard 35 points 2 days ago

Born in time to pirate gay stuff from the internet

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Born too soon to be a gay space pirate.

if it happens like it does in the expanse; we'll all be incidentally bi because of polyamory and bigamy. lol

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pirates are like the definition of Be Gay, Do Crime.

For more details, please watch Our Flag Means Death

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

A more fine documentary I have never seen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

OF COURSE there would be theater queens among the groups then. lol