LGBTQ history often foc on the hero. The creators of the Bad Gays podst expla their missn to fill the gaps.
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?
- WHY WE NEED TO GET TO KNOW THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY
- WAS T. E. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA GAY ? PART 1
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.
He was a reprsed homosexual and veloped sado-masochistic disorr. The ascetic soldier and wrer has often been scribed as a homosexual.
'It was never clear whether he was homosexual or not, ' Wilson said. 'Lawrence of Arabia' an actively gay person?
BOOK REVIEW: WAS LAWRENCE GAY ARABIA?
Often recent years, the life and achievements of Lawrence have been somewhat overshadowed by ntroversial claims published posthumo bgraphi ncerng his sexual orientatn, accatns that he had been a closet or self-reprsed homosexual. In the wake of his beg immortalized the 1962 David Lean classic “Lawrence of Arabia” a host of other bgraphers ro Aldgton’s at tails, makg the tillatg claim that he had been both homosexual and sadomasochistic. Prisons and garrisons often had personnel who specialized this abe, although there was nothg homosexual about .
WHY WE NEED TO GET TO KNOW THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY
The Turkish soldiers perpetratg this war crime certaly never nsired themselv gay, like male rapists prison the act has nothg to do wh the sexual orientatn of the attacker or victim. Then as now the fear of beg labelled homosexual as a rult of such disclosure was a legimate fear, society havg the tenncy of blamg the victim of sexual asslt rather than the perpetrator.
Homosexualy was a taboo subject at that time, same sex rape was even more taboo. The spicn Lawrence was homosexual is likely to have been a natural by-product of his shockg disclosure, some rears fdg a homoerotic unrtone to his retellg of events.
Then as now few unrstood the cint s historic ntext, the nsens beg only homosexuals are victims of same sex rape, that a man n protect himself and if he’s raped ’s bee he wanted to be. There are certaly aspects of this post trmatic trospectn Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which many rears have mistaken as homo-erotic fluenc. If he was homosexual, though most likely asexual, wouldn’t add or subtract om his legacy, but the terts of historil scholarship ’s important to view facts their proper ntext.
WAS T. E. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA GAY ? PART 1
Although Lawrence lived a perd durg which official opposn to homosexualy was strong, his wrg on the subject was tolerant. It happens to be one of my favore morn gay art piec.
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.