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dailyhistoryposts · 11 months

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The Glamour Boys

Forgotten queer history: the Glamour Boys were a group of gay British politicians in the 1930s. Because they made trips to Berlin, which was then one of the most sexually liberal and liberated places in Europe (note especially Magnus Hirschfeld’s Sexology Institute), they were among the first to notice the warning signs of Germany’s descent into fascism.

They returned to the UK and argued loudly and without stopping for rearmament, against appeasement, and many of the enlisted and were killed in action during World War II.

The term “Glamour Boys” was a derogatory one given to them by Neville Chamberlain, the conservative Prime Minister best known for his failed appeasement of Hitler. He had the Glamour Boys harassed, their phones tapped, and their names slandered in the press. As gay public figures in a time and place where homosexuality was illegal, each faced great potential consequences by coming forward as they did.

Members include the following MPs: Robert Bernays, Ronald Cartland, Victor Cazalet, John Macnamara, and Anthony Muirhead.

Their story was largely untold until The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler (2010) by Chris Bryant.

"Churchill gets all the credit all the time because that's what he wrote. He was opposed to the policy of appeasement, and all the rest of it, but what nobody, I guess, would know is that half the time when Churchill and [Anthony] Eden were plotting with the rebels, roughly half the men in the room were 'queer'."

#history #world history #19th century #gay history #queer history #wwii #British history #Nazi #homophobia #war #glamour boys

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trippercrazy · 8 months

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Living Colour

#living colour #rock band #corey glover #doug wimbish #vernon reid #Will Calhoun #music #cult of personality #love rears it’s ugly head #type #glamour boys #open letter

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aurora-doll-333 · 6 months

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: ¨·.·¨ : ‌ ` ·. there are violets in your eyes there are guns that blaze around you

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alienazed · 9 months

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the intimacy of being understood

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mistercrowbar · 2 months

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Aldric returning to adventure with a synthwave glamour for a fancy gala! Been a little while since I played my psionic sorcerer and he’s got some fancy new tech tricks 👀

#dnd character #c:aldric #finished art #crowbart #I feel i went too astarion with the hair BUT i do have a sketch of a similar glamour somewhere #boy normally has a lot of mutation growths he prefers to cover with illusions #hes also normally green-skinned

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pistachi0art · 13 days

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More Ben fam stuff I believe I have neglected to put here

#Neo’s way more of an E boy now #men’s fashion can be difficult sometimes aight #small things #the twins are Marley n Neo #bc YES I take back what I said about Ben not having any twin siblings #I like twin dynamics ok #and Cohen!#I’m going through his design n personality and have landed on ‘moody singer who writes songs about how shitty everything is’#he’s also like. coping bc he took Ben’s ‘thing’#long story short Ben really liked singing when he was younger but never wanted to pursue it #and Cohen just happened to also be really good but not as good as Ben so he claimed that singing would be HIS thing #and now he feels guilty bc he knows that Ben never pursued it bc Cohen took that confidence from him #and it was really more about the fame n glamour for Cohen too so #he feels his singing is ingenuous #lmao #lore jumpscare!!!#big thoughts #late night posting #benrey fam

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izayoiri · 22 days

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Well hi! 🎶

#ffxiv #ff14 #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv glamour #ffxiv oc #ffxiv screenshots #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv wol #Makoto Nagae #ffxiv viera #male viera #viera #had some simple fun just posing my boy #and I quite love him a lot

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oathkeeper-kima · 6 months

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[ Eikons of the Realm ]

so if they aren't gonna give me a time table on the FFXVI crossover event I'm going to be obnoxious about it on my own time, please look forward to it

#ffxiv #ff14 #gpose #my gpose #ffxiv glamour #ffxvi #ffxiv wol #femroe #roegadyn #ff16 #i was kinda going for more of a vibe and less of a 1 to 1 for the outfits ngl #also i tried to make a phoenix and a titan one but it was way too much of a struggle bus y'all #also BOY HOWDY is some of the ARR lighting arenas not great for gpose

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svalhofn · 8 months

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