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[General Patton]

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Speaking of cool Edwardian and 1900s gays:

Siegfried Sassoon.



Cool gay. Good writer. Good poet. Survived a bullet nearly going in his head. Badass WW1 soldier. Ended up marrying a woman who just so happened to look like his ex. Nice sounding British name.

 

[Vlad the Implier]

Speaking of cool Edwardian and 1900s gays:

Siegfried Sassoon.

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Cool gay. Good writer. Good poet. Survived a bullet nearly going in his head. Badass WW1 soldier. Ended up marrying a woman who just so happened to look like his ex. Nice sounding British name.

>Be Siegfried Sassoon
>Survive the entirety of the Great War
>Get awarded for your heroism
>Engage in numerous homosexual relationships which were illegal at the time
>Cry about your fuckboy ex to a woman 20 years younger than you
>Marry her anyways because she kind've looks like him
>Impregnate her with gifted autistic child
>Convert to Catholicism
>Die on the exact year that homosexuality was decriminalized in the UK


Despite my own prejudices, I can't help but respect someone who lived life on his own terms so boldly.

 

[General Patton]

everybody in this thread is a queer and should kill themselves LOL

Maybe if I had your self esteem.

>Be Siegfried Sassoon
>Survive the entirety of the Great War
>Get awarded for your heroism
>Engage in numerous homosexual relationships which were illegal at the time
>Cry about your fuckboy ex to a woman 20 years younger than you
>Marry her anyways because she kind've looks like him
>Impregnate her with gifted autistic child
>Convert to Catholicism
>Die on the exact year that homosexuality was decriminalized in the UK
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Despite my own prejudices, I can't help but respect someone who lived life on his own terms so boldly.

What can I say. He's my favorite WW1 poet. Also him nearly getting shot in the head was kind of badass.

No, really though:

On July 11 there was a direct hit on Sassoon’s dugout. On the 12th, ignoring the brigadier’s orders and Pinto’s advice (and touching Ottoline Morrell’s fire-opal beforehand), he went on one last patrol before they relieved the next day, going out for over two hours with a corporal to crawl within fifty yards of a German machine-gun post that fired at them before they flung all their grenades towards it. His nerve had held, proving his courage and his manliness to Rivers and to others he admired. Perhaps hubris made him stand up to look back towards the enemy’s lines in the early hours of July 13 as he returned. In any case, he was mistaken for a German and shot either by a sergeant in his company or by a young recruit who may have had his rifle knocked up too late by the sergeant, Robert Nichols, with typical melodrama, claimed late that it had been a plot by the High Command to kill this inconvenient rebel.

As blood cascaded from his head wound, he dreaded losing life’s magnificence, then laughed at the idea of memorable last words before Pinto brought him in. Hating to abandon his company, he called out “I’ll be back,” as he walked off to get his wound treated, saying at the Australian casualty clearing that he did not want to go to Blighty.

Also James Wilby played him once and he was really hot as Siegfried.