I wish they hadn’t cited the raging sadomasochistic homosexual T. E. Lawrence as an example of manliness. Even the best his apologists can do is explain his later behavior on his having been raped and humiliated by the Turks as their prisoner.
Otherwise, a officer paying enlisted men to flog him is unseemly at best, and fraternization at worst. But be that as it may, he is as much a homosexual icon today as is Oscar Wilde or Quentin Crisp, “One of England’s stately homos.”
I remember reading Oscar Wilde in high school and just loving everything he wrote and the disappointment that followed upon learning that he was such a flaming queer. I'm still able to admire his wit but that admiration is tainted by the knowledge of his personal perversions.
T.E. Lawrence or Quentin Crisp....hohum. Truman Capote - Just another imitator, without the talent, hyped by the same sort of perverts as the aforementioned and for the same reason.