Tag: WW2
THE LETTER MAN possibly the best true queer WW2 romance ever to reach the screen
THE LETTER MEN is based on the real love letters written by Gordon Bowsher to his sweetheart, Gilbert Bradley. Their love letters were exchanged throughout World War II, between the years of 1938 and 1941, but were not uncovered until 2017. The two men met in Devon in the UK in 1938, only to…
Germany will (finally) officially commemorate LGBTQ victims of Nazis
Sometimes good news is a long time coming . In this case …almost 70 years! Ir has just been announced that for the first time ever he German parliament has decided that it will for the first time commemorate LGBTQ victims of the Nazi regime. At last those who were persecuted and annihilated for…
THE UNTOLD GAY STORIES OF AUSCHWITZ
80 percent of gay men sent to the notorious Nazi concentration camp died there – some finding love among the horror or saving the lives of others first. That’s worth remembering this Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January). Words: Hugh Kaye for Attitude UK This is an updated version of this article. With thanks to…
Sunset : It’s never easy to say goodbye
Made in 2017 this gay short story is about a reluctant parting between a soldier about to head off to War (WW2) and his drag-queen lover who had been rejected for military service on the grounds that he was a ‘sexual psychopath’. The couple had just made love and Peter (NIccolo Walsh) was trying to…
Who Will Write Our History : the real story of the Warsaw Ghetto
In WW2 when the German Governor of Warsaw in Occupied Poland the city into three areas : one for Germans. another for Poles, and the third for Jews, the infamous Ghetto was born.. It was October 1940 and because the Nazis had also been rounding up all the Jews in surrounding areas, the initial …
