Museums are competing with each other to show artifacts of the ocean liner that sank the Titanic "experts" life "to explain" disaster for the public, and enterprising entrepreneurs strive to deliver food, clothes and music enjoyed by the first re-class passengers who sailed proudly White Star Line.
Titanic carried out some of the richest people in the world, such as millionaire John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim and Isidor Strauss, who enjoyed the ship first class facilities, and more than a thousand emigrants from Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere who had to do with control. Surviving accounts of the cruise a lot about the passengers on the ship and crew, except for their sexual orientation and gender identity.
There were single men and women, and male and female "couple" with family units and heterosexual married couples on the Titanic. Or one of those "few" were romantic or erotic couples, of course, without our knowledge. But we can speculate. Concrete cases on the mainland, we can say that some of the fateful millionaires and their employees a relationship that went beyond the master and servant counterparts. With the same reasoning, abroad a number of "old maids" Enjoyed erotic "Boston marriages" with their female companions. Hugh Brewster, author of Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic first-class passengers and their world (Thorndike Press), told the lawyer that two of the victims, Major Archibald Butt and artist / writer Francis Millet, perhaps more than friends. According to Brewster, Major Butt, "a dandified bachelor with an intense devotion to his mother, it seems more realistic than gays Frank Millet, the decorated war correspondent and married father of three children." Yet Millet surviving love letters to homosexual writer Charles Warren Stoddard gives clues about possible Millet homosexuality.
As in other places, was male homosexual activity, more frequent and more covert than lesbian activity on the Titanic. If the crew seemed to sailors everywhere, they may have indulged in a man-to-male sexual activity. In contrast to on-board romance between first class and third class passenger Rose (control) Passenger Jack - could not happen in real life - class boundaries were regularly crossed by men seeking sexual pleasure with other males. Like other men in Europe and America, many "Queer" men from the first class is based on the "more masculine" men of the working class, whether crew or platform, homosexual or trade. While many third class men indignantly rejected these prepayments, others went along, whether money, sexual liberation, or to gratify their own homosexual tendencies.
There were many places on the Titanic, where two or more men can have sex: private cabins, storerooms, various nooks and crannies, and even public toilets. (Frits Cher writes about gay goings-on in the hold of the ship, a maze of catwalks ... performed both on the pitch coalmen sailors, cooks, mechanics, masseurs and Negro in the Turkish bath. ") From the facilities of the Titanic was a men's sauna . If this sauna like other saunas in New York and London, which by 1912 was already notorious for homosexual activity, it must have the crew and passengers with more than therapeutic baths.
In Titanic, Jack Frederick Fritz Gayrotic Cher's account of the fateful journey details Cher-gay sexual encounters between the passenger and crew of the Titanic. Written in 1986 and first published in the journal Honcho (1988), Frits Cher calls her Titanic "gay literary erotica, which is in the psychology of the cruise and dramatizes the sexual antics on the basis of what one of my old friends who had been a purser on the Queen Mary told me about sex on board a large ship. "
In Titanic Frits Cher, Michael Whitney (a rare male survivors) and his hapless partner Edward Wedding, cavort sexually with another male passengers and crew. According to Frits Cher in the movie newsreel footage "shot three days [after the Titanic sank] on the deck of the rescue ship Carpathia immediately after it took the Chelsea Piers in New York, a dozen of the surviving Titanic crew, mostly sailor boys in tight white trousers to hide a little, showing a lot can be seen in a very intimate affair, camping around and represent the life jackets, pretending to faint. "This should not surprise us. After all, the world's great gay sexual adventurers.
Unfortunately for the historian, there is no evidence that this or any homosexual activity took place on the Titanic. What homosexual activity there was on the ship, it must be within the limits of imagination.
