A more enlightened rule

Is there an article about this?

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/-letter-men-details-love-letters-two-men-separated-wwii-rcna33349
- I'll leave this here too, it's the short film mentioned in the article. The Letter Men
I found a Lemmy post about it
- Recursion: see Recursion
- Good enough.

I'm not crying, you're crying. Shut up

Guilty as charged

Not sure I'd really call this an "enlightened time."

Relative to the 1940s, it is.
- I guess it depends on the lense. Accepting various sexually? Sure. Our politics and the general state of things? I wouldn't describe us that way.
To be fair, they said 'a more enlightened time', like how my face can be more handsome without me actually being handsome. :|
Times did change though, quite a lot even.
I'm not LGBTQ+ so I can only say what I know from other people. But when you speak to older gay people, boomer gays and such, they tell you awfuly heartbreaking stories.
Of course gays and other LGBTQ+ folx still get hated on and discriminated and there is still a long, long way to go.
But that doesn't change, that nowadays you can publish loveletters of two men, without destroying the lives of each person involved. Back then, the letter writers would have probably ended up in prison and everyone else with knowledge of them or any kind of involvement would loose their jobs and carrers and would have been shunned. Someone responsible publishing them or making a film about them, would probably go to prison too.
So yes. I'd call this a more enlightened time compared to Europe in the 1930'/40's.
- The 1920's were starting to become enlightened... which only fueled the facists hate. Were currently in that same situation, but this time we must let the facists know they are weak and wont hurt anymore people this time.
- Yeah, not the same thing and a couple decades earlier but Wilde's "De Profundis" is a useful contrast.
I was thinking the same: Made into a book that will be thrown onto a burning pile of woke books if trump wins.
- Agreed.
10% more enlightened

Anyone has more information about the book? This is something I'd like to request my library to add to their collection.

I found the short film that was mentioned in the article someone else mentioned The Letter Men

Awwww, what a close friendship they had. Fully plutonic. Just two very straight friends. Good ol' guy love, between two guys.

Totally plutonic. No real planets involved
- Plutonic love was between fat man and little boy.
  ... That sounds kinda off

That's disgusting! People shouldn't be made into books, it's unhygienisch

This is cool. A literal dream come true.

For anyone interested, these two did not get together after the war and live happily ever after.

One of them shacked up with two other men while on deployment.

Limerence is a hell of a thing.

Thanks for teaching me a new word.

That's so cute!