Homosexuality
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The bourgeois chronicler of multicultural England
Colin MacInnes tended to deify black foreigners and demonise native whites
Lord Boothby
A sexually voracious bisexual buffoon who was rescued from infamy by powerful friends
Young man — there’s a place you can go …
Everything changes in the end and not always for the better
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
LGB before the T
How did the term “LGBT” become ubiquitous in a decade?
What’s missing in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro
The film should not have ignored the political and musical context to Bernstein’s life
