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- BOOK REVIEW: WAS LAWRENCE GAY ARABIA?
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
BOOK REVIEW: WAS LAWRENCE GAY ARABIA?
Lawrence's sexualy has been the subject of much bate, wh the suggtn first ma by the thor Richard Aldgton that he may have been gay. The Gay Love Letters of Lawrence of Arabia". Excerpts om My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuri, eded by Rictor Norton.
'Lawrence of Arabia' an actively gay person? The ascetic soldier and wrer has often been scribed as a homosexual. 'It was never clear whether he was homosexual or not, ' Wilson said.
By his own acunt, November Lawrence was ptured at Darʿā by the Turks while rennorg the area Arab drs and was apparently regnized and homosexually btalized before he was able to pe. As far as n be termed would seem that Lawrence was asexual – or a reprsed homosexual – wh a tenncy towards is a matter of some bate exactly when Lawrence disvered that he was fact TE Chapman, but there is no doubt that the permanent atmosphere of pretence, utn and spicn that was engenred the fay by this sndalo subterfuge – and remember this was the end of the 19th century – ntributed to Lawrence’s highly plex childhood, perhaps not surprisgly, was very nfed. 9 He Might Have Been Gay.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Others argue that Lawrence was probably gay, pecially given his close relatnship wh Dahoum, an Arab water boy. 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.