Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 Jessica Kingsley Publishers each offering their own fascinating

each offering their own fascinating contribution to Chicago's historically vibrant scene

Rechy describes this world with candour and understanding in a prose that is highly personal and vividly descriptive

comes a new heart-pounding story about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead

highlighting advances in LGBT rights as well as formidable challenges that still confront the LGBT community

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Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 Jessica Kingsley Publishers each offering their own fascinatingIn 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