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‘It seems unlikely there wasn’t gay sex at the front’: The writers restoring queer lives into world war history
The Independent (UK) via MSN ^ | 2023-03-03 | Marcus Field

Posted on 04/04/2023 5:04:39 AM PDT by Salman

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To: rexthecat

“Does the author know that armed troops during wartime have been known to shoot someone that they don’t like?”

Or frag chickenshit idiots


21 posted on 04/04/2023 6:13:11 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: jz638

Correct; because to him it “seems” unlikely, it must be true!


22 posted on 04/04/2023 6:13:57 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: EvilCapitalist
I read somewhere that George Washington had two soldiers executed for sodomy during the Revolutionary War.

I don't remember the source for that...probably shouldn't publicize it or there will be demands to rename Washington, DC.

24 posted on 04/04/2023 6:33:06 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

No execution. Just kicked out of the military.

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/how-the-founding-fathers-dealt-with-those-who-engaged-in-sodomy/


25 posted on 04/04/2023 6:37:37 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Salman

Gore Vidal used to say that. He thought it was much more common than it was.


26 posted on 04/04/2023 6:39:24 AM PDT by x
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To: Tell It Right
On the 1870 census Madison Hemings, a son of Sally Hemings, told the census taker that he was a son of Thomas Jefferson--the census taker wrote it on the margin of the census sheet. Of course Madison would not have known for sure but presumably that is what his mother told him.

In 1998 some DNA study showed that at least one of Sally Hemings' sons had the Jefferson Y-DNA (but that could be from one of Thomas Jefferson's male Jefferson relatives). Previously people had pointed to family claims that it was one of Jefferson's nephews (sons of his sister) who fathered Sally's children--the DNA study in fact suggested that at least one of her children was fathered by one of those nephews (but the publication of the study pushed the idea that Thomas Jefferson himself fathered all of her children).

27 posted on 04/04/2023 6:39:38 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Tell It Right

There is some circumstantial evidence to that fact. Most of it would not be admissible in a court of law. Also, there is a DNA connection between a Jefferson family male and the descendants of one of Sally Hemming’s sons.


28 posted on 04/04/2023 6:48:38 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Verginius Rufus

I believe those soldiers were court-martialed and kicked out, not executed.


29 posted on 04/04/2023 6:49:18 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Tell It Right

Hitler wasn’t homosexual nor was Lincoln.


30 posted on 04/04/2023 6:51:01 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: KC Burke

For some people, it’s the desire to be different, just like everyone else. More than 1/2 of bisexuals polled have never had a same-sex episode. BINO so to speak.

I think much of this Queer thing is driven by straight liberals who want push it into the culture like they have done to countless things like BLM. A local Lutheran church was lambasted for flying a Rainbow flag that didn’t have the trans colors on it.


31 posted on 04/04/2023 6:54:21 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: ansel12

Hitler wasn’t homo but he was surprisingly tolerant of it. For a while.


32 posted on 04/04/2023 6:56:32 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: ansel12

The political left who tells us adamantly that Hitler was NOT gay, is the same political left who used to tell us that Hitler wouldn’t have been so mean if society had accepted his homosexual/bisexual ways.


33 posted on 04/04/2023 6:57:00 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: AppyPappy

You are very much correct: https://youtu.be/_H6zU4grHUc


34 posted on 04/04/2023 6:58:08 AM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Clemenza
My grandfather served in the coast guard with Cesar Romero (gay, but not public about it at the time).

Cesar Romero... there is a name I haven't heard in years. He was one of a number of sexually odd individuals connected with the "Batman" TV series. I can remember my dad mumbling something I didn't quite understand to my mom during one episode, and she said, "Birds of a feather..."

Eventually, I figured it out.

I only recall hearing my vet relatives say a few things about this thread's topic, with most details mercifully lacking. At least among these lower, less well-connected ranks actually on the ground in the ETO, indulging in such proclivities was something that would get you sent somewhere - ANYWHERE - else, and damn fast.

One of the problems one uncle had was controlling the company's enlisted ranks whenever the unit was near a port or a major city. He is long gone, but my guess is that he would now give a little derisive snort, shake his head and then give them credit for just going after the women.

35 posted on 04/04/2023 7:29:48 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: Tell It Right

You really need to do some serious history reading and lay off the faddish versions.


36 posted on 04/04/2023 7:37:58 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: skeeter

“”Hitler wasn’t homo but he was surprisingly tolerant of it. For a while.”’

Yep, but not the swishers.


37 posted on 04/04/2023 7:54:04 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12
Do you not remember the left over and over saying if Hitler's promotions in World War One weren't denied because of his homosexuality then he wouldn't have been the monster he later became? The left that told us that over and over want us to now forget it and tell us he wasn't gay at all.

Which is it? They can't play it both ways.

38 posted on 04/04/2023 7:56:57 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

I don’t know where you are getting this silly stuff.


39 posted on 04/04/2023 8:06:43 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Salman
"Rewriting history" is commonly known as fiction.

Or outright lies.

40 posted on 04/04/2023 8:08:27 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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