Contents:
- 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
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 .
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA WAS A GAY MISF WHO CREATED A NEW TYPE OF WARFARE AND HELPED SHAPE THE MIDDLE EAST
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.