*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.

Comments

[sovay]

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

It may not fulfill the criterion for a love story (or otherwise be what you're looking for), but James Lord's memoir My Queer War (2010), while it does contain period-accurate homophobia, is not in any way a representation of a wrecked life.

[hagsrus]

The Charioteer?

[magnetic_pole]

I guess it's important for people to know queer history, and to understand that homophobia and criminalization wrecked lives, but . . .

...but after you've absorbed that lesson there's actually some harm in seeing too many tragic stories--or at least that's what I've always thought. Fair enough to skip some! M.

[st_aurafina]

Not a war rec, but I'm not hating new bake-off - there might be some joy in that for you?

*hugs* I'm sorry things are crappy right now.

[sprentice]

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

If you ever do find one, please share. I've tried in the past to find something similar and there just comes a point where you have to wonder if they even exist.

[halotolerant]

Yes, I've still not watched it because I was just feeling not quite up to 'and then everyone's lives sucked and they were sad'

The happy WW2 love story needs to occur. And for goodness sakes, there *were* couples in that period who did fine, like Britten and Pears, writers really could go for it without total inaccuracy.

*sighs*