This WWII drama highlights the surprising queer history in an elite commando force
SAS: Rogue Heroes returns for season two this month, and if the WWII-set series based on real events wasn’t already on your radar, well, you’d be forgiven.
It’s not exactly standard fare for the gay group chat…However, there are some surprising hints of queerness lurking just beneath the surface of the series’ gritty action and masculine bravado, which may even be based in some historical truth, believe it or not, so let’s get into it!From Steven Knight (the creator of Peaky Blinders and, oddly enough, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?), SAS: Rogue Heroes is the origin story of the British Army’s Special Air Services (a.k.a.
SAS), a special commando unit that undertook highly dangerous, highly classified military missions, often deep behind enemy lines.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.As with many other films and TV series about war, SAS has no shortage of handsome, fit young actors on hand to play its daring soldiers.
So, even if the story itself doesn’t interest you, there’s at least plenty of eye candy.At the center is Lieutenant David Stirling—credited with founding the SAS—played by swoon-worthy Sex Education star Connor Swindells.
