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T E Lawrence
Early life
Lawrence was born in Tremadoc, North Wales, He studied history at Jesus College, Oxford, and then worked as an archaeologist at various sites in the Middle East.
War in the desert
After the outbreak of war in 1913 he connected the British Army and was assigned to the intelligence staff in Cairo. The Foreign Office had a arrange to undermine the Ottoman Empire (then allied to Germany, and spanning much of the Middle East) by fomenting insurrection by the various Arab tribes. Lawrence was sent to work with the Arab forces, and successfully persuaded the different tribe to work together and attack the strategically important Hejaz Railway. He was subsequently involved in further stages of the war up to the capture of Damascus, but his dream of an independent Arab state centred on Damascus was frustrated, as the British and French agreed to divide the Middle East between them.
Later life
Community
In recent years the life and achievements of Thomas Edward Lawrence hold been somewhat overshadowed by controversial claims published in posthumous biographies concerning his sexual orientation, accusations that he had been a closet or self repressed homosexual.
The claim was first made by author Richard Aldington 20 years after his death, controversial at the age because none of Lawrence's friends or family supported it. In the wake of his being immortalized in the 1962 David Lean classic Lawrence of Arabia a host of other biographers rode Aldington's coat tails, making the titillating claim that he had been both queer and sadomasochistic.
Claims seemingly given credence by newspaper interviews with privates of the Tank Corps who confessed to having had flogged Lawrence at his solicitation between 1925 to 1934, together they set the seal on the alleged confidential life of Lawrence of Arabia.
However those making these claims only told half the story, deliberately neglecting or downplaying the effect his having been raped had on his thoughts and actions. The base details of Lawrence's li
Arabian Uranianism: T.E. Lawrence's rendition of homoerotic desire in the Arab East
T.E. Lawrence's views on gender and sexual relations in the Arab East are documented in his literary and biographical accounts. Scholar, antiquarian, poet, soldier and imperial diplomat, Lawrence experienced various parts of the Levant and Arabia before and during his engagement in the Arab Revolt (1916-18). This paper explores Lawrence's depiction of same-sex relations and homoerotic desire through analysing certain anecdotes in his literary and documentary writing about gender and same-sex relations in the Muslim Arab East. Highlighting the significance of the figure of the 'blond beduin', or 'Lawrence of Arabia&
Lawrence of Arabia was a gay misfit who created a new type of warfare and helped shape the Middle East
Thomas Edward Lawrence had a thirst for adventure and is known as the founding father of guerrilla warfare
Lawrence of Arabia’s almost mythical taste for adventure was driven by a tormented need to validate himself.
As a teenager , Thomas Edward Lawrence cycled orbicular France studying castles driven by his obsession with the crusades and chivalry.
The Englishman’s family had to buy him out of the Army when he ran away from home to enlist when he was 17.
And when he was at college in Oxford he spent three months walking around medieval castles in Syria – trekking 1,000 miles on foot.
By anyone’s understanding, T E Lawrence had an unconventional upbringing.
But then the explorer, soldier and creator of Seven Pillars of Wisdom was, a new novel says, driven by an obsessive depend on to prove himself because he was born illegitimate and gay.
Neil Faulkner’s publication, Lawrence of Arabia’s War, is based on 10 years of archaeological explore carried out by the Great Arab Revolt Project.
Earlier this year, his team unearthed a bullet proving Lawrence WAS at
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Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer. He was renowned for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First Planet War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia—a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities. Among the roll call of figures that activist Peter Tatchell announced under the heading of ‘famous homosexuals’ are Lord Mountbatten, Florence Nightingale, Lawrence of Arabia, Catherine Cookson, Winston Churchill, and William Shakespeare. Some of the iconic gay figures from the two earth wars that are adv