Blackbeard & Stede Bonnet: True Story Behind Our Flag

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Our Flag Means Death is dubbed "the gay pirate show" for good reason. Based on the true unlikely partnership between Blackbeard and "The Gentleman Pirate", the show has more nods to true history than you'd think. But what IS that history? Who, really, were these two pirates? Come learn with me!

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Sources:

Blackbeard: America’s Most Notorious Pirate by Angus Konstam

The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet by Jeremy R. Moss

Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 by Mark G. Hanna

Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly

The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard

Why We Love Pirates by Dr. Rebecca Simon

More Monsters Than Men? Uncovering the Meanings of Piracy and Sodomy in Early Modern England by Jacob Miron

Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity By Hans Turley

Men and Matelotage: Sexuality and Same-Sex Relationships within Homosocial Structures in the Golden Age of Piracy, 1640-1720 by Nicole Keegan

“The Sea Will Make a Man of Him?”: Hypervirility, Effeminacy, and the Figure of the Queer Pirate in the Popular Imagination from the Early Eighteenth-Century to Hollywood By Isabel Karremann

Blackbeard, Buccaneer By Ralph Delahaye Paine

‘Our Flag Means Death’ Team on Stede & Blackbeard’s Romance and Letting Go in the Finale
By Meaghan Darwish https://www.tvinsider.com/1037781/our-flag-means-death-season-1-finale-blackbeard-stede-romance-rhys-darby-taika-waititi-hbo-max/

The truth about Blackbeard’s Flag by Kevin P. Duffus https://ocracokeobserver.com/2021/08/18/the-truth-about-blackbeards-flag/