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<p dir="auto"><strong>spookydblack</strong> — <em>9 years ago(December 25, 2016 02:48 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Was He supposed to be gay like in Willy Wonder? I liked POTC BUT the three main characters were a sexual retentive blacksmith,the biggest super bitch of all times and Depp's weird super feminine pirate captain WAS he ment to be gay or bisexul?? Give me the Kraken anytime.</p>
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<p dir="auto">To be absolutely accurate, Depp's pirate was a fop. We associate the behavior of a fop as gay, but strictly speaking a fop is not necessarily gay. Tony Randall played Felix Unger as a fop.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16703</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16703</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Was Johnny Depp&#x27;s Pirate gay? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:26 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>Snaggelpuss</strong> — <em>9 years ago(December 30, 2016 07:31 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Was He supposed to be gay like in Willy Wonder?<br />
just cause he lived alone with all those male (or did the females just look male?) midgets doesnt make him gay.<br />
"Depp's weird super feminine pirate captain WAS he ment to be gay or bisexul?"<br />
Just cause pirates had a huge tradition of sodomy on the high seas (hence the term butt pirate etc) doesnt mean they where gay if doing it or even receiving!</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16702</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16702</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Was Johnny Depp&#x27;s Pirate gay? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:26 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>spookydblack</strong> — <em>9 years ago(December 27, 2016 06:02 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">I guess that goes with out saying. Does it not.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16701</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16701</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Was Johnny Depp&#x27;s Pirate gay? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:26 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>WillEd</strong> — <em>9 years ago(December 26, 2016 09:51 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">My take is a little different. I don't expect realism from those Disney pirate movies. What is going on in them has absolutely nothing to do with historical reality. It is all fantasy.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Maybe do a little reading on the subject.<br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sodomy-Pirate-Tradition-Seventeenth-Century-Caribbean/dp/0814712363" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.amazon.com/Sodomy-Pirate-Tradition-Seventeenth-Century-Caribbean/dp/0814712363</a></p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16699</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16699</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Was Johnny Depp&#x27;s Pirate gay? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:25 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>spookydblack</strong> — <em>9 years ago(December 26, 2016 08:41 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">No not threatened just think that pirates esp a feared captain would have to be tough not a prancing fool or they would have been killed by their own men. And I guess I could be accused of fearing strong women because I felt that girl was a super bitch.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16698</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16698</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Was Johnny Depp&#x27;s Pirate gay? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:25 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>WillEd</strong> — <em>9 years ago(December 26, 2016 04:59 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Nobody is threatened. But Depp is doing an obvious stereotype of a gay man. That is his choice and what he has been doing lately in many of his performances.</p>
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<p dir="auto">The real question is, why are the two of you so threatened by effeminate men?<br />
Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre<br />
Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16696</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16696</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Was Johnny Depp&#x27;s Pirate gay? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:25 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>WillEd</strong> — <em>9 years ago(December 26, 2016 05:21 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">It is like watching Paul Lynde play, as he sometimes did, a married man with children. He is supposed to be straight, but he doesn't act like he is. And Jack Sparrow acts like he would rather be with the boys. Why does Depp do it? Because it is fun to camp it up. He would probably sissify James Bond.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Limp wristed( my phone changes words).</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16694</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/16694</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Was Johnny Depp&#x27;s Pirate gay? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:11:25 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>spookydblack</strong> — <em>9 years ago(December 26, 2016 04:32 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">More than drunk,he acted limp twisted and foppish to say the least.</p>
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<p dir="auto">His character was supposed to be drunk, that's all.  Anything else is you reading into it.<br />
If it matters, heterosexual encounters of his are alluded to in the fourth one, where Bloom/Knightley's characters do not appear.  I doubt it is a case of retconning with "the not-gays", it's just that Jack Sparrow's lovelife wasn't exactly relevant to the earlier plots.  But if you want him to be bi, I see no reason to contradict you.<br />
Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre<br />
Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois</p>
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<p dir="auto">And Mad Hatter. Depp likes to play swishy.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Didn't notice that one Will. His Barnabas seemed Gay too though.</p>
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<p dir="auto">His Tonto was gay, too.<br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/johnny-depp-characters-gay_us_5642401ce4b0b24aee4c0f29" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/johnny-depp-characters-gay_us_5642401ce4b0b24aee4c0f29</a></p>
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