Abstract
As heterosexual soldiers experimented with feminine characteristics in order to survive the brutality of the trenches, many homosexual men discovered their more masculine side. The war did not create new sexual identities, but it did allow men to explore, define, and evaluate their existing gender and sexual identities within the unique world of the front experience. For some men who considered themselves innately homosexual, to use the term employed by the famous sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, this meant that war and comradeship became a prism through which it was possible to define existing self-perceptions of sexual orientation in increasingly “masculine” terms.1KeywordsHomosexual IdentityMasculine IdealSocial Democratic PartyHome FrontFront ExperienceThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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