T.e. lawrence gay

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The Gay Treasure Letters of Lawrence of Arabia

Excerpts from My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries, Edited by Rictor Norton

T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935), commonly known as Lawrence of Arabia, devoted Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) "to S.A.", the handsome Arab boy Dahoum nicknamed Sheik Ahmed, with whom he shared his quarters for three years, who died of typhus in 1918. In this known study of the Arab revolt against the Turks he acknowledged that the soldiers, rather than use the "sordid commerce" of general prostitutes "began indifferently to slake one another's few needs in their possess clean bodies – a cold convenience that, by comparison, seemed sexless and even pure. Later, some began to justify this sterile process, and swore that friends quivering together in the yielding sand with intimate hot limbs in supreme hug, found there veiled in the darkness a sensual co-efficient of the mental passion which was welding our souls and spirits in one flaming effort." Rumours about his private life include supplied a

Was T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) gay?

Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division1

Is ther reliable evidence that T.E. Lawerence was gay? Did he tell people he was gay? Or did people just assume he must be gay?

BobT2

This article leads one to believe that Lawrence just wasn’t interested in the whole idea of sex.

http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/telawrence.htm

He was tortured and raped by Ottoman Turks in 1916 (you know the scene with Jose Ferrer …)

Ranchoth3

I’d heard that he was just Asexual.

Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker4

That (asexuality) was also the conclusion Richard Schenkman came to in his “Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of World History.”

county5

Well, his sleeping with young Arab boys is what gave ascend to that whole “gay” rumor. No, I have no cite.

Satyricon6

I read a large biography on him once that contained excerpts from his diary. Apparently he had a phobia of physical contact - the idea of a handshake even repulsed him. There are people out there who suffer from this caring of thing. I’m not sure what the name of it is, though. So if this was true, he might not have been attracted to ANYone…maybe we’ll never know…

Capt_B.Phart7

The sexual radicalisation of Lawrence of Arabia

I recently wrote about the influence of unconscious shame upon the personality of perhaps the single most memorable individual to emerge from Nature War I, T. E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia.

Since then I have been reading Scott Anderson’s monumental labor, Lawrence in Arabia. Anderson’s work is fascinating because, while Lawrence is its key figure, the novel is actually an account of all the main intelligence operatives shaping the future of the Middle East during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. As such Anderson brings a critical eye to the Lawrence enigma and questions some aspects of his autobiography, Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Anderson’s meticulous examination clearly reveals the sexual radicalisation of Lawrence of Arabia.

Elliot Rodger

The phrase ‘radicalisation’ tends to deliver to mind religious radicalisation in general and Islamic radicalisation in particular. However, as I wrote in The sexual radicalisation of Elliot Rodger, radicalisation can have other drivers, including politics, race, and—perhaps most infrequently—sex.

For those unfamiliar with Elliot Rodger, he was a young man whose unconscio

T E Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence(1888–1935) known as T E Lawrenceand commonly referred to as Lawrence of Arabia, was an archaeologist, writer, and military commander, forever associated with the Arab revolt against Ottoman Turkish control during the First World War.

Early life

Lawrence was born in Tremadoc, North Wales, He studied history at Jesus College, Oxford, and then worked as an archaeologist at various sites in the Middle East.

War in the desert

After the outbreak of war in 1913 he connected the British Army and was assigned to the intelligence staff in Cairo. The Foreign Office had a intend to undermine the Ottoman Empire (then allied to Germany, and spanning much of the Middle East) by fomenting insurrection by the various Arab tribes. Lawrence was sent to work with the Arab forces, and successfully persuaded the different tribe to work together and attack the strategically important Hejaz Railway. He was subsequently involved in further stages of the war up to the capture of Damascus, but his dream of an independent Arab state centred on Damascus was frustrated, as the British and French agreed to divide the Middle East between them.

Later life

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