Contents:
- LAWRENCE OF ARABIA WAS A GAY MISF WHO CREATED A NEW TYPE OF WARFARE AND HELPED SHAPE THE MIDDLE EAST
- BOOK REVIEW: WAS LAWRENCE GAY ARABIA?
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA WAS A GAY MISF WHO CREATED A NEW TYPE OF WARFARE AND HELPED SHAPE THE MIDDLE EAST
Lawrence of Arabia was a gay misf who created a new type of warfare and helped shape the Middle EastThomas Edward Lawrence had a thirst for adventure and is known as the foundg father of guerrilla warfareLawrence of Arabia the 1920sLawrence of Arabia’s almost mythil taste for adventure was driven by a tormented need to prove himself.
But then the explorer, soldier and thor of Seven Pillars of Wisdom was, a new book says, driven by an obssive need to prove himself bee he was born illegimate and gay. “There were qutns about whether he was ‘normal’ bee he was gay.
BOOK REVIEW: WAS LAWRENCE GAY ARABIA?
He was a reprsed homosexual and veloped sado-masochistic disorr. Satt wr, “There ntu to be a wispread belief that Lawrence was homosexual, eher practice or thwarted sire. Satt acknowledg the dntg challenge of fully probg the psyche of the man posthumoly tapulted to even greater fame than he had life as Lawrence of Arabia: “He has been hailed as a hero and nounced as another imperialist out to explo the ls fortunate, both champned and rid as a homosexual, and dismissed as a self-publicist, a fantasist, a fake.
Lawrence and Dahoum shared — one uld argue — a partnership that would stantly be regnizable to gay men today. The sodomy prosecutn London of the great gay Irish wrer, playwright, and poet Osr Wil began 1895, culmatg his rceratn and then his tragic ath 1900. Intimat among Lawrence’s ntemporari also lend crence to the ncln he was homoerotilly cled.
Woolley later seemed to pull back his characterizatn of Lawrence as a homosexual, whout temperg his anti-gay rhetoric. He was tolerant, thanks to his classil readg, and Greek homosexualy terted him, but a tached way, and the tert was not morbid but perfectly ser. Gay novelist E.