Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet: The True History Behind Our Flag Means Death

Head to to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code KAZROWE. 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! Find me on Twitter: I’m on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: Buy my comics: Send me a ko-fi: Read my webcomic: Catch it on Tapas: Line Webtoons: Filmed using: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k– Blackmagic Video Assist 5” HDR – Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro– Samsung Portable SSD T5 - 2Tb– Edited using DaVinci Resolve Studio 17 and the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor: 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 The truth about Blackbeard’s Flag by Kevin P. Duffus