Once upon a time--possibly 2003 or 2004--I witnessed a play in which most of the characters were played by people of the opposite sex of their characters, so the King was played by a woman, the Queen was played by a man, etc. The plot was roughly that the King loved the Queen, but knew they couldn't really get married because the King was secretly--as the audience knew--a woman. The Queen was wracked with love but could not declare herself, for woe, she was secretly--but beardedly--a man. Here's the king and queen in question.

The upshot was that the King legalized marriage for everybody so that he (if that's the pronoun I want) could marry the Queen. And when he finally proposed, the queen pointed out that she was secretly a man, and that therefore it wasn't actually necessary in their case, but hey, it was good to make such things possible for everyone else.