Conferate and Unn: The untold history of gay Civil War soldiers - LGBTQ Natn

homosexuality in war

The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy and persecuted gay men between 1933 and 1945.

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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. * homosexuality in war *

And then on June 30, the last day of Pri Month, DeSantis released a bizarre homophobic ad that showed a mashup of clips, headl, and statement ma by Tmp support of the LGBTQ muny juxtaposed wh a mashup of DeSantis dog his bt to make himself look tough while attackg LGBTQ rights. A glossed-over element for me, however, is the experience of the gay man this perd.

Before I do so, however, I have to apologise twice: once for the very fleetg verage I n give to the subject matter owg to nstrats of space and, nnected to this, aga for the impersonal way this brief treatment necsat I portray the very real liv of homosexual men durg the perd.

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.

Any laws prohibg sodomy were repealed 1791, durg the revolutn, and so homosexualy was technilly legal France durg the war.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.

CONFERATE AND UNN: THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF GAY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS

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. In this way, too, one might view the chief Brish sentiment at the time towards homosexualy as a treasono act, only ma more poignant by the very real loss felt by so many fai durg the lk between homosexualy and Germanns French and Brish mds durg the early twentieth century is probably part due to the Eulenberg sndal, where key members of Kaiser Wilhelm’s bet and entourage were ‘outed’ between 1907 and 1909.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Homosexualy Germany was illegal durg this time, and homosexualy the ary was punished wh a long prison sentence (pared to the ntemporaneo Brish practice of a floggg). However, spe the harsh nsequenc for natural feelg, there appears to have been a much higher cince of German homoeroticism the trench beg exprsed (based solely on private acunts, which is all we really have to measure this sort of thg).

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