flambingo: something evil in camp life

August 24, 2005

something evil in camp life

more amusement from the british forces archives; the army kept watch lists of lesbians following the war right up until the early 90s.

two letters in response to the guardian's report give rather more info on gay life in the forces.

70 year old edward smith explains one of the forces more novel approaches to the problem of homosex in the ranks, putting all the queers in one camp, RAF ruislip.

"Lest younger readers should think all was doom and gloom in the RAF camps of the mid-1950s, I can tell them this was not so for at least one - RAF Ruislip on the outskirts of London. To say it was the prototype for Carry on Camping II would do it less than justice, since, as part of a policy by the higher authorities in the RAF to "clear out the homosexuals", many of this community were stationed there.

It was argued that, rather than allowing youths suspected of being homosexual (ie being "camp" for men and "butch" for women) to corrupt other airmen/airwomen, it would be wiser to have them all together. Ruislip had the added bonuses of being both near to central London and adjacent to an US airbase.

As a now 70-year-old, I am able to say that if not the happiest days of my life, those years were among the most interesting and informative I have experienced; they also gave me friends who I am still fortunate enough to have. I look back with affection to those outwardly sexually repressive, but inwardly wildly gay 1950s.

Edward Smith
Brighton, E Sussex"

edward smith sounds splendid, i hope he writes his memoirs.

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