Gay and Lbian soldiers faced extraordary discrimatn durg World War II. Most found new muni of people and thrived spe the opprsn. Disver the film Comg Out Unr Fire that shar their story.
Contents:
- ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ CORPORATE EDN: DESANTIS WANTS TO WAGE WAR AGAST BUD LIGHT
- "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
- CONFERATE AND UNN: THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
‘DON’T SAY GAY’ CORPORATE EDN: DESANTIS WANTS TO WAGE WAR AGAST BUD LIGHT
* homosexuality in war *
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Homosexualy BraIn 1885, the Brish penal was modified to “improve the moral climate of the unty”, acrdg to Profsor Mort his book, Dangero Sexuali.
Labouchere advoted the outlawg of any homosexual ntact whatsoever and parliament duly passed the bill to law.
"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
Misrmatn asi, 22 officers and 270 enlisted men were urt-marshalled for homosexualy durg the war; this figure, though no doubt only reprentg a small sample of the totaly of such experience, is remarkably smaller than I might have gused.
However, examatn of evince om the trench by psychologists and historians turn up far more evince for homoerotic feelg than tent or actn and seems to suggt that homosexual clatn was wily reprsed.
CONFERATE AND UNN: THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
Any laws prohibg sodomy were repealed 1791, durg the revolutn, and so homosexualy was technilly legal France durg the war. However, this do not mean that the French attus towards homosexualy were much better than across the channel.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
Homosexualy was viewed as herently immoral and un-French – the practice of homosexualy was actually seen synonymoly wh Germanns both France and Bra. There are suggtns that this might partly be the reasong, too for some Brish rerv about homosexualy at the time – as homosexualy do not lead to procreatn, prived the natn of children wh which to fend self.