Lawrence of arabia gay
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 serve , 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 take 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
Was T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) gay?
Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division1
Is ther solid evidence that T.E. Lawerence was gay? Did he tell people he was gay? Or did people just take for granted 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 finding 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 go up to that whole “gay” rumor. No, I hold 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 kind 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
Arabian Uranianism: T.E. Lawrence's rendition of homoerotic desire in the Arab East
T.E. Lawrence's views on gender and sexual relations in the Arab East are documented in his literary and biographical accounts. Scholar, antiquarian, poet, soldier and imperial diplomat, Lawrence experienced various parts of the Levant and Arabia before and during his engagement in the Arab Revolt (1916-18). This paper explores Lawrence's depiction of same-sex relations and homoerotic desire through analysing certain anecdotes in his literary and documentary writing about gender and same-sex relations in the Muslim Arab East. Spotlighting the significance of the figure of the 'blond beduin', or 'Lawrence of Arabia', the paper exposes Lawrence's manipulation of his positioning: as an 'English sheikh' and a British imperial officer attracted to themes of Uranian care for, seemingly more freely free in the Arab East. Lawrence's love and devotion to Dahoum, a Syrian 'donkey-boy', who accompanied him on his scholarly pre-War travels in the Levant is juxtaposed with other accounts in Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his 'personal narrative' of the Arab Revolt and the 'War on the East
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The Gay Love 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, assigned 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 famous study of the Arab revolt against the Turks he acknowledged that the soldiers, rather than use the "sordid commerce" of public prostitutes "began indifferently to slake one another's few needs in their own 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 embrace, found there concealed 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 have supplied a
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