![]() “It’s not as if I could find primary sources for what gay sex was like at the front,” Winn told Yahoo News, “but it seems unlikely that it never happened.” Indeed, though there are no concrete accounts of gay sex in the trenches, historial records show that more than 230 British soldiers were court-martialed and imprisoned for “homosexual offenses” during WWI. Winn’s In Memoriam, though fictional, is heavily inspired by the poems, letters, and other writings of WWI soldiers like Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. Winn and Turner aren’t pulling their queer war narratives from thin air. Together, these books point to a growing fascination with what queerness looked like for 20th-century military men. In Memoriam by Alice Winn is a romance between two young soldiers fighting in World War I, while Luke Turner’s Men At War blends history and memoir to look at World War II soldiers outside of a straight, cisgender ideal. Gay sex in the wwi trenches must've hit so crazy- gg lily allen April 1, 2023 ![]()
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