In an effort to make sense of several psychoanalytic and other accounts of war trauma in which homosexual themes appear, I work out in step-by-step fashion a series of psychic linkages by which trauma following on violence inflicted or undergone in war may recruit (homo)sexuality for its expression, in intergenerational or other transfers. I offer the conceit of a homosexual imaginary, a formation in cultural and psychic life, which may mediate such transfers. Invoking Jean Laplanche’s notion of the enigmatic message, his conception of sexuality as a traumatically violent implantation into the child on the part of the adult, I pose the question: Could we think of the intergenerational transmission of trauma as a kind of enigmatic message?