Regeneration Trilogy? I'll have to check that out... The thing is, and I'll have to read more to be able to back this up, but the impression I've always gotten is that while it wasn't really ever good to be queer in the 19th and 20th centuries, that in the 30's-50's, it actually got worse. Buggery in the 19th century was a crime and a sin, but by the mid-20th it was a crime, a sin and a pathology.
Sex with pals in the army and NEVER SPEAKING OF IT AGAIN makes sense. It's JUST SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS UNDER THE STRESSES OF WAR now let's forget it happened. Sort of like the buggery-doesn't-count-if-we've-been-more-than-90-days-at-sea rule.
And with Cap, there's the religious angle, too. He's obviously devout, and depending on which sect he was raised in, that could go either way. If it's a modern church that accepts homosexuality now, all well and good. If not...
I think if the extent of the repressed feelings is made clear (along with 40s-era steps to fight the Sinful Urges), and first time it happens under the stresses of a combat or post-combat situation that that would make a plausible lead-off. But then you're going to have to deal with the fallout, and that will be considerable.
Also, it goes without saying that any kind of heteronormative schmoop is just right-the-hell out. It really will never be spoken of, I think, just generally understood.
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Regeneration Trilogy? I'll have to check that out... The thing is, and I'll have to read more to be able to back this up, but the impression I've always gotten is that while it wasn't really ever good to be queer in the 19th and 20th centuries, that in the 30's-50's, it actually got worse. Buggery in the 19th century was a crime and a sin, but by the mid-20th it was a crime, a sin and a pathology.
Sex with pals in the army and NEVER SPEAKING OF IT AGAIN makes sense. It's JUST SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS UNDER THE STRESSES OF WAR now let's forget it happened. Sort of like the buggery-doesn't-count-if-we've-been-more-than-90-days-at-sea rule.
And with Cap, there's the religious angle, too. He's obviously devout, and depending on which sect he was raised in, that could go either way. If it's a modern church that accepts homosexuality now, all well and good. If not...
I think if the extent of the repressed feelings is made clear (along with 40s-era steps to fight the Sinful Urges), and first time it happens under the stresses of a combat or post-combat situation that that would make a plausible lead-off. But then you're going to have to deal with the fallout, and that will be considerable.
Also, it goes without saying that any kind of heteronormative schmoop is just right-the-hell out. It really will never be spoken of, I think, just generally understood.