📗 Libro en inglés SOME MEN IN LONDON: QUEER LIFE, 1945-1959

Quite simply this book is a work of genius Matthew Parris The Spectator An essential study of post war gay London life one of the best anthologies I have ever read John Self The Observer With it s wide ranging selection generous biographical notes and provocative bibliography Some Men in London is a serious and important contribution to our understanding of Britain up to today Fiona Sampson The Tablet An absolutely extraordinary book about actually what life was like for homosexual men in London in the 1940s and the 1950s It s amazing Dominic Sandbrook The first part of a major new anthology which uncovers the rich reality of life for queer men in London In the 1940s it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath of war A moral panic ensued centred around London as the place to which gay men gravitated In a major new anthology Peter Parker explores what it was actually like for queer men in London in this period whether they were well known figures such as John Gielgud Chips Channon and E M Forster or living lives of quiet or occasionally rowdy anonymity in pubs clubs more public places of assignation or at home It is rich with letters diaries psychological textbooks novels films plays a