In WWII, Two Gay Soldiers' Forbidn Romance Liv On In Their Love Letters

Contents:

• IN WWII, TWO GAY SOLDIERS’ FORBIDN ROMANCE LIV ON IN THEIR LOVE LETTERS
• NEW WWI MOVIE TO FEATURE A GAY LOVE STORY
• THE FOTTEN GAY SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
• GAY SOLDIER UKRAE: “IF I’M PTURED, THEY WILL TORTURE ME”
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

IN WWII, TWO GAY SOLDIERS’ FORBIDN ROMANCE LIV ON IN THEIR 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.

Homosexualy was illegal at that time, and beg ught the army as a gay man was so much worse.

NEW WWI MOVIE TO FEATURE A GAY LOVE STORY

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. 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 FOTTEN GAY SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

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. Fans of romance, take heed: the trailer for the gay historil drama Firebird has arrived.

Share URL Embed Keywords idma EN, Producto FYI, Categoria Society, Subtegoria LGBT, war, war torn, soldiers, radil, prejudice, gay, LGBT, love, secret love, gay soldiers love, iraq, FYI_01100_EN. By the law of averag – even if only two per cent of people are homosexual, and not the one 10 that some people thk – that means an awful lot of gay men fought and died. Some people hold the belief that the Great War sparked the morn gay rights movement.

GAY SOLDIER UKRAE: “IF I’M PTURED, THEY WILL TORTURE ME”

Lrie Marhoefer, an assistant profsor of history at the Universy of Washgton, said: “Gay soldiers who survived the blood-lettg returned home nvced their ernments owed them somethg – full cizenship.

” In Germany, he add, anisatns cludg the German League for Human Rights, which had about 100, 000 members, lled for some sort of gay equaly. Although was not actually prohibed by Brish army regulatns – that didn’t happen until 1955 – homosexualy was illegal throughout the UK so most gay soldiers kept their sexualy hidn, possibly addg to the misery they were already experiencg the trench of the Wtern Front: livg, eatg and sleepg mud, plagued by rats and nstantly unr enemy fire and the threat of poisoned gas. Beg gay, therefore, was not only illegal but also seen as unpatrtic.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

That said, homosexualy activy was “not exactly unknown” the Brish army, acrdg to historian A. War poets Wiled Owen – who died a week before the armistice was signed and is famo for works such as ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ and ‘Dulce et Dem Est’ – and Siegied Sassoon, who survived the war and whose poems clu ‘Suici the Trench’ and ‘Aftermath’, were both gay, although was not public knowledge at the time.

Another war poet, Rupert Brooke, once lled the most handsome young man England, is said to have scribed himself as one half outright heterosexual, one quarter outright homosexual and one quarter “sentimental homosexual. Gay soldiers who were open about their sexualy were often ostracised and reported to their superr officers for “cency”.