Terence Davi on explorg the life of gay First World War poet Siegied Sassoon ‘Benedictn’ | Featur | Screen

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One of the reasons we’re able to unrstand, wh such vivid knowledge, what life was like durg WW1 is thanks to some great poetry. But did you know some of the most famo war poets were revere gay, bi and queer?

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THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF BRA’S FIRST WORLD WAR POETS REVEALED

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This time, brought to life and revealed wh all their gay ntext left .

BRA’S GAY WAR POETS

The poets lived their liv at a time was illegal to be gay, wh the partial crimalisatn at least 50 years away. “In the two World Wars gay and bisexual men and women fought and died for a untry that rejected them.

Very few plac were as homophobic as Bra the first half of the 20th century wh a very active prosecutn policy for gay men. The new podst piec together the gay, bisexual and queer poets’ liv through their own words.

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TERENCE DAVI ON EXPLORG THE LIFE OF GAY FIRST WORLD WAR POET SIEGIED SASSOON ‘BENEDICTN’

Bra’s Gay War Poets. But many of the ft poems of the Great War—cludg “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “Dulce et Dem Est”—might not exist were not for the pivotal bond between two gay men who were the era’s ft war poets: Siegied Sassoon and Wiled Owen.

WAR GAY POEMS

Cavafy is a 20th century Greek poet, known for his highly homoerotic and sexually explic poetry.

While he remaed mostly obscure durg his lifetime, he's now e to be revered as one of the great gay poets of the past hundred years. Ifti Nasim was a gay Pakistani-Amerin poet who moved to the Stat to pe persecutn for his sexualy back his hometown.

Baldw is known as one of the great, proud gay artists of all time. Walt Whman is one of the great poets of all time, and a champn of homoeroticism the lerary form. “Obvly, I was terted the fact that he was a great poet, and that he was gay and got married to a woman, like many did that day.

WATCH BENEDICTN TRAILER: BPIC OF GAY WWI POET SIEGIED SASSOON

Though many were aaid of persecutn and hid their sexual orientatn, others boldly me out a time when homosexualy was pletely nmned.

EXCLIVE: JACK LOWN ON EMBODYG GAY WAR POET SIEGIED SASSOON BENEDICTN

Here we take a look at 10 of the greatt gay or bisexual figur classic lerature.

The War Gay poems are exampl of Gay poems about War.

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Watch 'Benedictn' Trailer: Bpic of Gay WWI Poet Siegied Sassoon .

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