ABSTRACT
The author began his research into the representations of masculinity and sexuality in visual culture of 1920s Britain in relation to the commemoration of First World War. The war and military archive is one of the places where the normativization of gender and sexuality is formulated and a place of establishing hegemonic masculinities thus erasing any doubts to existence of non-heterosexual sexualities. The figure of the Boy David Memorial provides a departure from the iconography of First World War memorials, especially the figure of the soldier in uniform that was so common to the memorials. By the end of the nineteenth century was a period which, as Michel Foucault has highlighted, marked a critical point in the creation of a homosexual identity. The association of trauma with the patient's artistic temperament led the analyst to establish that the patient formed close attachments with men.
