The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life self harm sex/uality

sex/uality

Seventeen-year-old Mandy

and disability studies

IAN MCGINTY

by ground breaking French director Francois Ozon

The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life self harm sex/ualityFor 60 years Mr George Leo John Lucas led a double life. By day, he was a civil servant at the Board of Trade, but by night unable to live openly as a gay man before the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 he was a fixture of London's colourful underground gay scene, a twilight world of petty crime, louche pubs and public lavatories. He was also an obsessive diary writer. When Mr Lucas died in 2014 he left his diaries to the journalist Hugo Greenhalgh. This