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IN WWII, TWO GAY SOLDIERS’ FORBIDN ROMANCE LIV ON IN THEIR LOVE LETTERS

Three hundred love letters wrten durg WWII were disvered a tnk and tell the story of a forbidn love between two gay men. * old gay love letters *

Margaret’s love letters to Ruth, posthumoly gathered To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead (public library) — which also gave Mead’s prcient posn on homosexualy — are a thg of absolute, soul-stirrg bety, on par wh such famed epistolary romanc as those between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Geia O’Keeffe and Aled Stieglz, Henry Miller and Anaïs N, and Jean-Pl Sartre and Simone Bevoir. From the wonrful 1998 anthology My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuri (public library) — a diverse llectn of missiv verg the universali of romantic love, om longg and fatuatn to jealoy and rejectn to tenrns and loyalty — the rrponnce of Beat Generatn godfather Allen Gsberg and the poet Peter Orlovsky. Burroughs, another in of lerature’s gay subculture:.

Among morny’s most tragic victims of our shameful past is Osr Wil, who was imprisoned multiple tim for his “crime” of homosexualy, driven to bankptcy and exile, and fally succumbed to an untimely ath.

300 LOVE LETTERS DISVERED BETWEEN TWO GAY MEN DURG WWII TELLS HEARTBREAKG STORY

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It was on eBay, the ter’s treasure trove, where curator Mark Higt, of the Oswtry Town Mm, unearthed remarkable love letters between two lol gay soldiers durg the Send World War. Gay rights activist Peter Rose said that fdg such a llectn of letters is rare bee most homosexual upl of this era monly stroyed any evince of their relatnships and sexual orientatn.

OUTRAGE: 6-YEAR-OLD STUNTS TOLD TO WRE GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL AND LOVE LETTER

Homosexual relatnships were only legalised (for men over 21) 1967 and beg outed as a gay soldier durg World War II uld have even rulted a ath sentence. Letters between gay men are credibly rare bee they were almost always stroyed.

Letters between a gay civilian and a soldier? This is an credibly rare photograph of a gay soldier and a man Paris durg World War II.

TOP 10 FASCATG GAY TEXTS FROM HISTORY

Homosexualy was illegal at that time, and beg ught the army as a gay man was so much worse.

If he was found out, was likely that he would serve time prison, or even get shot by a homophobic soldier, and left for ad. Two gay soldiers relaxg together uniform. Beg openly gay would not be crimalized until The Sexual Offens Act 1967.

Even then, no one uld have gay sex until over the age of 21. Not surprisgly, there were other gay men that were drafted to the army as well.

UK SCHOOL TEACH 6-Y-O KIDS TO WRE GAY 'LOVE LETTER' FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ASSIGNMENT

For the vast majory of gay men wrg letters to one another durg that time, they actually did burn the letters. For years, they had dreams of leavg England and movg to the Uned Stat, where they uld live sunny California, which was known for beg more acceptg of homosexuals.

The Newly Disvered Love Letters Between Two Gay Soldiers In World War II Will Have You In Tears.

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