Homoeroticism in Shakespeare's Sonnets

Two things you need to know about those computerized tests--the questions get more difficult based on how well you're doing, and there are 42 questions total. Tierra Ford was 31 questions in when she raised her hand to ask a question.

Tierra: "Mr. Vonn, how many questions does this test have?"

I could tell by her body language she was ready to be done.

Me: "Forty-two." I glanced at the screen and noticed Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, so I tried to encourage her. "Just eleven more, and you're doing really well if you're on Shakespeare at this point in the test. Good job, Tierra!"

Tierra: "Man this poem is gay!"


Now, wait--gay in the sense that many scholars have detected a distinct homoeroticism in Shakespeare's later sonnets? Or gay in the, say, Lord of the Flies, anything-with-printed-words-is-gay sense?

We may have an aspiring professor on our hands.