*whimper*

[kindkit]

I just watched the first part of Man in an Orange Shirt, one of the shows the BBC produced for its Gay Britannia celebration, and it was wrenching. It's about two men who fall in love just after the Second World War, but one of them is engaged to be married, and everything plays out just as you'd expect. *sigh* I guess it's important for people to know queer history, and to understand that homophobia and criminalization wrecked lives, but . . . I would also like to see representation of the unwrecked lives, of the ways queer men found to resist and even to be happy.

I think the second part is going to be happier, but that's set in the present, and as such it doesn't speak to me as much.

Should've been more cautious, because I'm not really in a good emotional state for stories of heartbreak.

tl;dr still waiting for the Second World War era love story between two men that has a happy ending.

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[kindkit]

I know that book, though I think I only ever read part of it. I'm more in the mood for fiction at the moment, because I am craving the sort of happy endings that real life, being messy and without proper narrative structure, doesn't generally supply. One of these days I should go back and give the memoir another try, though.

[sovay]

I'm more in the mood for fiction at the moment, because I am craving the sort of happy endings that real life, being messy and without proper narrative structure, doesn't generally supply.

Fair enough. The internet suggests that Ensan Case's Wingmen (1979) is not full of queer tragedy. The author wrote it specifically to overwrite a homophobic subplot in WWII-era novel he had read in his adolescence.

[edit] Lethe can also do you the First World War.