BBC War of the Worlds - Robert Carlyle on "potentially gay" role

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Ernst Röhm, the hight-rankg gay Nazi, prents an tertg study the nstctn and ntament of masculy by the right.

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I THOUGHT I COULD SERVE AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN THE ARMY. THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS.

In rponse, and apparently to monstrate his petency his assigned posn, the nonmissned officer had taken upon himself to approach the person he nsired cled toward mtg a siar offense the future: me, the only openly gay soldier my un. Together we approached our un’s learship, where she sisted that the ments had stemmed om the reprentative’s own homophobic feelgs and remend that he be reprimand and removed om his posn as the un’s sexual harassment watchdog.

WASHGTON’S HUNDRED-YEAR WAR ON GAYS

But by then was hard to ignore the anxiety I felt durg required social activi — “mandatory fun, ” as ’s lled the ary — or the tensn om my fellow moment I cid to bee a soldier and the moment I chose to live openly as a gay man occurred so closely time that ’s hard to remember which me first. It was still four months before the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” a double-edged policy prohibg askg any service member about his or her sexualy while enforcg a ban on openly gay service members.

A uple were more elaborate: tailed scriptns of what might happen to me if I was ught alone, and proclamatns about the wrongns of gays the ary.

There are moments when feels wrong to claim my stat as a veteran; as if beg gay ma me ls of a soldier and somehow validated my service.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

Every memory evok an emotn: rage that I had to serve wh a nstant sense of fear of my fellow soldiers; paralyzg sadns for those who endured ab worse than I n know; and, the worst, guilt over the service members — gay or straight or transgenr — who died while servg the ary while my body is still whole.

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

While DDLJ a n-of-the-l romantic drama tale to actually narrate a bizarre, formls, perhaps even unsolvable mystery story, War exam the them of homosexual sire the dividual and societal ntext, g an actn/spy story as a cematic ver.

WAR OF THE WORLDS: ROBERT CARLYLE EXPLAS HIS "POTENTIALLY GAY" ROLE BBC'S ADAPTATN

Certaly, beg the latter would also give new meang to flashbacks that show Khalid beg beaten by his schoolmat for his father’s betrayal, meang that those scen stead perhaps are a metaphoril exprsn of social stigmatizatn and vlence at the hands of one’s fellow peers for perceived homosexualy, sadly not a phenomenon unmon amongst adolcents. It is likely that this is an allegoril reprentatn of the stereotype of a gay man enterg to a heterosexual relatnship wh an unwtg woman, primarily to nceal his sir and embrace a semblance of normalcy society’s ey, although the film jtifi Kabir’s distert her as a sign of his sense of duty to the natn. In a particularly stirrg scene that volv Khalid meetg wh Kabir as he celebrat Christmas wh Naa’s dghter, the joys of fatherhood and the possibily of a homosexual uple startg a fay together are explored.

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