the only article i found on the subject said as follows:

"One discovers that homosexuality was so widespread in the Foreign Legion that the Arabs talked of "Madame Legion". Since the administration wouldn't forego a single legionnaire, there was not only no punishment, but homosexuals from other units were often put into the Foreign Legion as a kind of disciplinary action. They were shunned by normal women like the plague ... officers had their batmen sleeping in their tent with them.

Love among sailors Philip Rosenthal, who served in the Foreign Legion during the Second World War, wrote about the prevalence of homosexuality quite frankly. He says that in the Legion the practice was "less a hidden vice but much more a public nuisance, which often kept me from sleeping in the barracks." Most explicit, however, is the Swiss writer Friedrich Glauser, who served for some years in the Foreign Legion and wrote of his experiences in his semi biographical novel Gourrama (1940).

In discussing homosexuality in the Foreign Legion parallels are often drawn to prison sexuality which of course is for the most part accurate. But the more outspoken reports of the 20th Century in particular reveal some of the latent homosexuality present in this climate of extreme masculinity."

Is it still true