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'Black Sails' Depicts the Untold Story of Queer Pirates

Starz’s “Black Sails” has been giving fans an inside look into how Captain James Flint found himself in the Bahamas through intense flashbacks of his past life in the British Royal Navy. Sometimes—very rarely—there will be one relationship that lasts more than a season, though chances of that decline the more seriously a show tries to take itself. Although it aimed to be prestige TV for much of its run, the queer characters on Black Sails were never secondary.

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Captain James Flint is the glue that holds Black Sails to Treasure Island, so Toby Stephens’s portrayal definitely takes liberties with Flint’s sexuality. In fact, James’s whole mission is to fulfill his former lover Thomas Hamilton’s goals of saving Nassau. Intimacy on Black Sails is unconcerned with the trappings of traditional heterosexual relationships, i. Open relationships abound.

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The series revolves around Captain James Flint and serves as a prequel to the Robert Louis Stevenson novel *Treasure Island*. Whatever you have that's *Black Sails*-related, post it here. Now that Black Sails is finally on Netflix , millions of viewers worldwide who had never heard of the Starz series will get to experience one of the best and most underrated prestige television series of all time. The historical fictional nature of the show sets it in the early 18th century during the Golden Age of Piracy, and while there are depictions of real historical figures , Black Sails takes many liberties with these characters.

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After her husband’s death, the officer assumes the identity “Captain Flint” and moves with Miranda to the Pirate Republic of Nassau. .

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‘Black Sails’ Star Toby Stephens Talks Flint’s Gay Romance: ‘He Became Himself’ TheWrap K subscribers Subscribed. .