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I was watching a documentary [message #19492]

Mon, 19 January 2004 22:17

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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It was to do, as things here so often are, with WW2. Only it was not jingoistic. The time for that passed a long tme ago. It was about young RAF fighter pilots, 18, 19, 20 years old. the same age as my son, older than some of you.

It talked about girlfriends, and losing comrades. And it showed loss on each side of that waste of life.

I was sitting there, tears in my face, wondering why, why, why no-one ever thinks of the queer pilot, the one who loved his comrade and whose comrade never returned. Why does everyne have to be heterosexual? Why would not 10% of the 600 RAF fighter pilots killed have been homosexual? Why would they not have loved? And why can we not remember that too?

I feel angry, somehow. And grief stricken though I was not alive then. There's a lot more I can't either put into words or face putting into words.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

		I was watching a documentary By: timmy on Mon, 19 January 2004 22:17
		Re: I was watching a documentary By: marc on Mon, 19 January 2004 22:34
		I am not thinking of the victims, sad though that is By: timmy on Mon, 19 January 2004 22:43
		Not that I was very clear about it By: timmy on Mon, 19 January 2004 22:46
		Re: I am not thinking of the victims, sad though that is By: marc on Mon, 19 January 2004 22:50
		People on TV and in the movies are always straight. By: lenny on Mon, 19 January 2004 23:04
		Clifford By: david in hong kong on Tue, 20 January 2004 00:09
		Re: Clifford By: marc on Tue, 20 January 2004 00:33
		Clifford! By: lenny on Tue, 20 January 2004 16:34
		Re: I was watching a documentary By: Steve on Tue, 20 January 2004 02:31
		Amazing Book!! By: david in hong kong on Tue, 20 January 2004 04:08
		Re: Amazing Book!! By: Steve on Tue, 20 January 2004 04:49
		Re: I was watching a documentary By: timmy on Tue, 20 January 2004 07:15
		Re: I was watching a documentary By: kevin on Tue, 20 January 2004 07:32
		The Persian Boy!!!! By: david in hong kong on Tue, 20 January 2004 15:11

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