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<span class="byle-name"><a href=">Alex Tabet</a></span> and <span class="byle-name">Aaron Gilchrist</span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">“Wouldn’t be wonrful if all our letters uld be published the future a more enlightened time,” Gordon Bowsher wrote durg the harrowg days of World War II. “Then all the world uld see how love we are.” </p><p class="">Many are now gettg the opportuny to wns their credible love story, more than 80 years after Bowsher wrote to Gilbert Bradley, the man he loved. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">The two were separated 1939, when Bradley was drafted to the Brish Army.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_small__5hUB_ styl_portra__NRWbO"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Gilbert Bradley." height="1500" width="999"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Gilbert Bradley.</span><span class="ptn__source">Courty Andrew Vallente</span></figptn></figure><p class="">Throughout World War II, they wrote each other love letters, which have now been ptured Andrew Vallente’s short film “The Letter Men,” starrg Garrett Clayton as Bradley and Matthew Postlethwae as Bowsher. </p><p class="">The film premiered June 10 at Tribe Film Ftival and is showg throughout the week.</p><p class="">Vallente had the ia for his film after learng of the uple's letters 2017. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">“Beg a gay filmmaker, bed wh my love for World War II history, I knew I had to tell this story,” Vallente, the director and -wrer of the film, said. </p><p class="">Bradley and Bowsher first met Devon, southwt England, 1938. In love but separated by the war, the two men began wrg each other letters — a potentially dangero act durg that era. Homosexualy was illegal the U.K. until 1967. </p><p class="">“Most queer people burned their letters durg that time bee they were terrified of beg disvered,” Vallente said. </p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="From left, Matthew Postlethwae, Andrew Vallente, and Garrett Clayton." height="1668" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">From left, Matthew Postlethwae, Andrew Vallente, and Garrett Clayton.</span><span class="ptn__source">Courty Andrew Vallente</span></figptn></figure><p class="">“Incency,” the ary term for sexual activy between men, uld rult a lengthy prison sentence for Brish soldiers. As a rult, rrponnce tailg gay love om that time is extremely rare. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">Vallente said that, at some pot, Bradley told Bowsher he fell love wh another man Stland, and their letters beme more iendly until they drifted apart and stopped wrg to each other 1945. Bradley kept his letters until his ath 2008. </p><p class="">Vallente -wrote the script wh his hband, Danny Vallente. The majory of the script is posed of the exact words om Bradley and Bowsher’s letters.  </p><p class="">Vallente ma sure that most of the st and crew volved the productn of the film intified as LGBTQ.  </p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Garrett Clayton and Matthew Postlethwae as Gilbert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher." height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Garrett Clayton and Matthew Postlethwae as Gilbert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher.</span><span class="ptn__source">Courty Andrew Vallente</span></figptn></figure><p class="">“I thk ’s important that we tell our own stori,” he said. “That don’t always necsarily need to happen, but this se I’m happy that was.” </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">For Vallente, highlightg the posivy of gay love was important when producg “The Letter Men.” </p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">“In a lot of LGBTQ+ cema, we tell our worst stori, some of the worst thgs that have happened to om over the years,” he said. “In ‘The Letter Men,’ we didn’t explore hate crim, we didn’t explore people beg shunned for beg love. 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gay soldiers love letters

A mm owner has llected the letters between two gay soldiers between World War II and the story of their romance is like that of a famo romance novel.

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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. * gay soldiers love letters *

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.

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

In 2008, the letters between gay soldiers were disvered. Now, they are no longer hidn, and a film has been ma about them. * gay soldiers love letters *

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. For the vast majory of gay men wrg letters to one another durg that time, they actually did burn the letters.

NEW SHORT FILM 'THE LETTER MEN' REVEALS SECRET LOVE LETTERS AMONG GAY SOLDIERS WWII

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.

War Time Love Letters Reveal Epic Gay Love Story Kept Secret for Des. The Newly Disvered Love Letters Between Two Gay World War II Soldiers Tell A Heartwarmg Story Of Forbidn Love. But more than 70 years later, was disvered that G stood for Gordon, and Gilbert had been love wh a the time, not only was homosexualy illegal, but those the armed forc uld be shot for havg gay sex.

SECRET LOVE LETTERS OF TWO GAY SOLDIERS OM WWII MA TO MOVIE

The letters, which emerged after Mr Bradley's ath 2008, are therefore unual and shed an important light on homosexual relatnships durg the do we know about this forbidn love affair?

The rt of the world have no nceptn of what our love is - they do not know that is life as a homosexual the 1940s was credibly difficult. Gay activy was a urt-martial offence, jail sentenc for so-lled "gross cency" were mon, and much of society strongly disapproved of same-sex was not until the Sexual Offenc Act 1967 that nsentg men aged 21 and over were legally allowed to have gay relatnships - and beg openly gay the armed servic was not allowed until letters, which emerged after Mr Bradley's ath 2008, are rare bee most homosexual upl would get rid of anythg so crimatg, says gay rights activist Peter Rose.

"There is a gay history and isn't always negative and tearful, " he says. "But spe all the awful circumstanc, gay men and lbians managed to rise above all and have fascatg and good liv spe everythg. "Such letters are extremely rare bee they were crimatg - gay men faced years prison wh or whout hard labour, " he says.

READ THIS HEARTBREAKG GAY WORLD WAR II SOLDIER’S LOVE LETTER

"There was even the possibily that gay soldiers uld have been shot. At the time, however, homosexualy was outlawed the ary, and soldiers uld be shot for engagg activy emed is a sample om the llectn:Wednday January 24th 1939My darlg,... Mt let gays serve openlyBut he was unsuccsful his efforts and statned at Park Hall Camp Oswtry, Shropshire, 1939 to tra as an anti-aircraft love not also appear to show that Bradley was love wh Gordon Bowsher before beg drafted.

""Such letters are extremely rare bee they were crimatg - gay men faced years prison wh or whout hard labour, " Higt says. The post featur a photograph of Bradley on top of the ptn:Hundreds of love letters between two gay WWII soldiers were disvered and sold to a mm.

THE NEWLY DISVERED LOVE LETTERS BETWEEN TWO GAY SOLDIERS IN WORLD WAR II WILL HAVE YOU IN TEARS

However, the Brish ary did not allow for gay and lbian servicemembers to be open about their sexualy until relatnship between Bowsher and Bradley — and their shared rrponnce — reportedly end 1945. “Such letters are extremely rare bee they were crimatg – gay men faced years prison wh or whout hard labour, ” Higt told the BBC 2017. “There was even the possibily that gay soldiers uld have been shot.

He said that he was terted the story of Bradley and Bowsher both bee he is gay himself and bee when he was a child, his grandfather opened up to him about his own experienc servg the story of the two lovers, he said, was not about g out but about them livg their liv and not beg able to be together bee of the war. ”Article Sourc +Forbidn Love: The WW2 Letters Between Two MenGay WWII Secret Letters Ga Hollywood IntertThe Love Story of Two Send World War Soldiers is Set to be Brought to Life wh a One-Off Talk and ExhibnNew Insights to Forbidn Love WW2Gay Brons Serve Milary Wh Ltle Fs, as Predicted Disrd Do Not OccurGilbert and Gordon's Forbidn Love Story to Bee a Hollywood Movie.

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In 2008, hundreds of love letters between two gay WWII soldiers, Gilbert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher, were disvered and then sold to Owtry Town Mm. Durg WWII, soldiers who were disvered as gay uld be imprisoned, or much worse. “Beg a gay filmmaker, bed wh my love for World War II history, I knew I had to tell this story, ” Vallente, the director and -wrer of the film, said.

Homosexualy was illegal the U. As a rult, rrponnce tailg gay love om that time is extremely rare.

‘SLEEP WELL MY LOVE’: A BETIFUL TRAGIC GAY LOVE LETTER FROM WWII!

” For Vallente, highlightg the posivy of gay love was important when producg “The Letter Men.

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.

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. As wartime stori of homosexual relatnships go, theirs is a happy one. Homosexualy was illegal until 1957, and partakg any homosexual act was punishable by 10 years prison.

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