In 2008, the letters between gay soldiers were disvered. Now, they are no longer hidn, and a film has been ma about them.
Contents:
- IN WWII, TWO GAY SOLDIERS’ FORBIDN ROMANCE LIV ON IN THEIR LOVE LETTERS
- READ THIS HEARTBREAKG GAY WORLD WAR II SOLDIER’S LOVE LETTER
- ‘SLEEP WELL MY LOVE’: A BETIFUL TRAGIC GAY LOVE LETTER FROM WWII!
- SECRET LOVE LETTERS OF TWO GAY SOLDIERS OM WWII MA TO MOVIE
IN WWII, TWO GAY SOLDIERS’ FORBIDN ROMANCE LIV ON IN THEIR LOVE LETTERS
Letters between gay men are credibly rare bee they were almost always stroyed.
READ THIS HEARTBREAKG GAY WORLD WAR II SOLDIER’S LOVE LETTER
Letters between a gay civilian and a soldier?
This is an credibly rare photograph of a gay soldier and a man Paris durg World War II. Homosexualy was illegal at that time, and beg ught the army as a gay man was so much worse.
If he was found out, was likely that he would serve time prison, or even get shot by a homophobic soldier, and left for ad. Two gay soldiers relaxg together uniform.
‘SLEEP WELL MY LOVE’: A BETIFUL TRAGIC GAY LOVE LETTER FROM WWII!
Beg openly gay would not be crimalized until The Sexual Offens Act 1967. Even then, no one uld have gay sex until over the age of 21.
Not surprisgly, there were other gay men that were drafted to the army as well.
For the vast majory of gay men wrg letters to one another durg that time, they actually did burn the letters.
SECRET LOVE LETTERS OF TWO GAY SOLDIERS OM WWII MA TO MOVIE
For years, they had dreams of leavg England and movg to the Uned Stat, where they uld live sunny California, which was known for beg more acceptg of homosexuals. The Newly Disvered Love Letters Between Two Gay Soldiers In World War II Will Have You In Tears.
War Time Love Letters Reveal Epic Gay Love Story Kept Secret for Des. The Newly Disvered Love Letters Between Two Gay World War II Soldiers Tell A Heartwarmg Story Of Forbidn Love. Margaret’s love letters to Ruth, posthumoly gathered To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead (public library) — which also gave Mead’s prcient posn on homosexualy — are a thg of absolute, soul-stirrg bety, on par wh such famed epistolary romanc as those between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Geia O’Keeffe and Aled Stieglz, Henry Miller and Anaïs N, and Jean-Pl Sartre and Simone Bevoir.
From the wonrful 1998 anthology My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuri (public library) — a diverse llectn of missiv verg the universali of romantic love, om longg and fatuatn to jealoy and rejectn to tenrns and loyalty — the rrponnce of Beat Generatn godfather Allen Gsberg and the poet Peter Orlovsky.