Was Shakespeare gay?

I know that a lot of you have at least once thought about the following question: Was Shakespeare gay? 

We know that at the age of 18, he and Anne Hathaway got married and they had three children: Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. (However, Hamnet died at the age of 11.)

A lot of people were gossiping about Shakespeare's sexuality. While Shakespeare was writing in London, his wife and children were at home. Shakespeare was free in an artistic way- and why not try to kiss with a man? Or another woman? It is not a sin. On the contrary, it was really popular in the 16th century.

The answer for the question asked in the first sentence is: TRUE. He was gay. Or at least he was bi. 

We can find many proofs if we really dig into his works including the sonnets - especially Sonnet 144.

Please, read the sonnet first and then continue.

Two loves I have of comfort and despair, 

Which like two spirits do suggest me still 

The better angel is a man right fair, 

The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. 

To win me soon to hell, my female evil 

Tempteth my better angel from my side, 

And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, 

Wooing his purity with her foul pride. 

And, whether that my angel be turn’d fiend, 

Suspect I may, yet not directly tell, 

But being both from me both to each friend, 

I guess one angel in another’s hell. 

   Yet this shall I ne’er know, but live in doubt, 

   Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

In this sonnet, he describes two loves (a man and a woman) and he expresses his sorrow because he does not want to accept the fact that he loves a man!

(Shakespeare was in a really good relationship with Christopher Marlowe, although we don't know anything about them. )

If you would like to know more about Shakespeare's young self, watch "Will" on TNT or online. 

PLOT:

Young William Shakespeare is a struggling playwright who tires of making gloves in order to support his wife and three children. He travels to London and sells one of his plays to a theatre owned by James Burbage. In doing so, he befriends the rest of the company, pushes out the previous playwright and falls in love with Burbage's daughter, Alice. While seeking fame and fortune in London, Will keeps his Catholicism secret from those who would threaten to kill him and exploit his connection to the wanted Robert Southwell. As he makes a name for himself, he finds that he is saddled with saving a dying theater company and finding a place in a city that is hostile to his religion.

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