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GAY LIFE OF THE NEW LEGNNAIRE
“The safety and tegry of male youth as the re nstuency of postwar renstctn” was paramount as fears of slavery and homosexual sctn fueled the panic. “Narrativ of abductn st the recment of young German men not jt as enslavement but also as a form of sexual transgrsn and, pecially, of homosexual sctn, ” Bis wr.
The era was also tensely patriarchal, misogynist, and homophobic, wh some 50, 000 gay men prosecuted unr Paragraph 175, an anti-homosexualy statute that was strengthened unr the Natnal Socialists and not abolished until 1969. ” The threat of slavery at the hands of the Legn “enpsulated the terrifyg fantasy that Germans might be subjected to extreme vlence siar to the treatment they had meted out to their own victims” durg World War II, and the “figure of the rptg homosexual” served as “the negative foil of Wt German mascule cizenship.
MARQUATE'S GAY MILARY FICTN
I know the US Army at least, we have many trag and operatnal phenomena that n only be scribed as "gay. That beg said, how gay is the FFL operatnally and terms of trag? [QUESTION] What's the fate of gay men the French Foreign Legn?
MARQUATE'S GAY MILARY FICTN
I know they don't accept gay men, but what if you're already the Legn and they fd out you're gay?