Eded on 18.12.08 to add an amed note to viewers om a certa "private" fom on the Legn out there: I n fictnalise as many gay legnnair as I like. Fictn, chaps, F.I.C.T.I.O.N. This is not real, this als wh Fictn. Got ? :-D Photo © pyright s owner, whout permissn. The French Foreign Legn.…
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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. 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? I know they don't accept gay men, but what if you're already the Legn and they fd out you're gay?
MARQUATE'S GAY MILARY FICTN
By CHARLES BREMNER THE warrr image of the Foreign Legn may never be the same aga after the release today of a film on the homoerotic...
France, like many European untri legalis homosexual partnerships a civil partnership, siar to Bra. Th a ban on homosexualy the Forc do not appear to be logil nor legal, and, fact, is not place.
FRANCE’S ARMED forc will accept homosexuals to s ranks provid they do not attempt to “nvert” others. Which I quote another post on attus towards homosexualy European Milary Forc.
MARQUATE'S GAY MILARY FICTN
Countri wh Laissez-faire Homosexual Polici. Scholars scribe France and Belgium as untri that have adopted laissez-faire approach to homosexual personnel. In France, difference characteriz the official attu towards homosexuals the ary.
Although homosexuals are not banned om French ary service, is regnized that they may face greater challeng than their heterosexual unterparts. Commanrs and psychiatrists n also discharge gay and lbian personnel if they feel they are disptg their uns and nnot f . Also, sce beg gay is accepted as an exce for not gettg drafted (France has Natnal Service like Germany), homosexuals would be two mds about attackg the policy.