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Queer History

Considered controversial, Benson's superb diaries were sealed for one hundred years at his death. This selection shows the novelist, poet, don and Eton master to have been an acute and waspi... read more

The Benson Diary

A.C. Benson

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A rich and scholarly undertaking: AD has gone looking for unconventional lives across the period and found them in abundance. His portraits are rounded, unexpected and humane.

Queer Georgians

Anthony Delaney

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Hujar's photos of his friend and lover as well as many letters and postcards between them, illuminating their relationship till they parted in the mid 1970s.

Paul Thek and Peter Hujar: Stay Away from Nothing

Paul Thek

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From looking after his alcoholic mother, becoming ordained at 24 and then coming out as gay, Bryant's journey to becoming a Labour minister was unusual. His book is frank and illuminating.

A Life and a Half: The Unexpected Making of a Politician ...

Chris Bryant

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Carefully researched and sensitive to the influences of love and location, this is a fine account of the poet's life.

Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy ...

Peter Jeffreys

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From the C19th century to the present.

Queer Lens: A History of Photography

Paul Martineau

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Radnofsky 'Sir, we are homosexuals...': Roger Butler was the first man to come out publicly, in a letter to several newspapers in 1960, risking imprisonment.

The Light of Day: The First Man to Come Out at the Dawn of Gay Liberat ...

Christopher Stephens

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Looks at the gay community that flourished for decades in Cambridge when homosexuality was illegal, and its immense influence in British culture.

Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History

Simon Goldhill

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The outstanding biography of the revered artist, film maker, gardener, diarist, gay rights campaigner and general scourge of bigotry was first published in 1991. This illustrated new edition... read more

Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography

Tony Peake

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The publisher's blurb informs us that EW is 'at the apex of the gay canon'. What could they mean?

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir

Edmund White

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A novel from the art critic and author of What Artists Wear and Bring No Clothes that looks at gay relationships against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis and its long aftermath.

Nova Scotia House: A Novel

Charlie Porter

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Exquisite Corpses is the name of a game invented by André Breton and a few other Surrealists in the '20s. You might know it already; each player takes turns drawing or writing on a sheet of... read more

Exquisite Corpses

David Plante

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After a penurious childhood in Liverpool and an unhappy stint in the merchant navy, AA became a model and socialite - until her success and jobs dried up after being outed in the press. She ... read more

Bonjour, Mademoiselle!: April Ashley and the Pursuit of a Lovely Life ...

Jacqueline Kent

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Volume 1 (1945-59) came out in May to great acclaim. This second volume closes with decriminalization, when subculture could begin to come culture. John Sandoe opened his shop in 1957.

Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 – Volume Two ...

Peter Parker

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A remarkable account of the author's encounter in Tasmania in the 1960s with the last Lord Talbot de Malahide, and his discovery 50 years later that his man might have been a Soviet spy. A f... read more

Undercover: Two Secret Lives

Tony Scotland

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A superb study of the great poet's early work, and the crisis of identity that caused him to leave England for America.

The Island: W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness ...

Nicholas Jenkins

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A year into university and wrestling with religion, Tóibín discovered Baldwin. These essays on freedom, truth and the hidden are wonderfully perceptive and articulate.

On James Baldwin

Colm Toibin

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From the editor of Gunn's Letters comes the first biography of the poet whose complex sexual and cultural life led him to the California hippies and the AIDS crisis.

Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life

Michael Nott

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This complex man exposed horrors in the Congo and Amazon, winning renown and a knighthood. But his support for Irish Independence led to his execution for high treason.

Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement ...

Roland Philipps

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On his death in 2014, George Lucas left his diaries - spanning 60 years and pertaining not to his career as a civil servant but to his after-hours pursuits - to their editor.

The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life ...

Hugo Greenhalgh

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A magnificent anthology.

Some Men in London: Queer Life 1945-1959

Peter Parker

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Already receiving praise for revolutionising the history of sexuality, this book is bound to be a fascinating analysis of sex and identity in early-modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1 ...

Noel Malcolm

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An anthology exploring the rich Greek and Roman literary traditions of queer love; with some of LEH's lovely drawings too.

300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World ...

Luke Edward Hall

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Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart

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Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings, from Arrest to Impriso ...

Joseph Bristow

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Born in Ghana, EE has become celebrated as the first black editor of British Vogue. This is his compelling account of how that happened.

A Visible Man

Edward Enninful

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The first biography of the extraordinary writer who died in 2020. An officer in the 9th Lancers, Morris was posted to Trieste in 1945. He was the only journalist to accompany the 1953 Britis... read more

Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides

Paul Clements

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Hedonism, reinvention, liberation on a strip of land off the coast of New York: what it was to be young and gay - and then confront AIDS.

Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise ...

Jack Parlett

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Opens up the world of the second Bloomsbury generation: Eddy Sackville-West, Stephen Tomlin, Julia Strachey...

Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Reimagined Love, Freedom and Sel ...

Nino Strachey

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Born Elizabeth Forbes in 1912, he lived as a boy/man and had the gender on his birth certificate altered in order to marry. When his older brother died in 1965, his cousin contested Ewan's i... read more

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes

Zoe Playdon

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A broad-ranging study of trans life in contemporary Britain and beyond that makes the case for social change with admirable clarity.

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

Shon Faye

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He was a resistance fighter in WW2 Budapest, a travel photographer in South America and an abusive patriarch in 70s New York - but Steven Faludi disappeared from his daughter's life decades ... read more

In The Darkroom

Susan Faludi

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A fascinating account of the group of queer young MPs who visited Berlin in the 1930s and spoke out against Hitler. Dubbed 'the glamour boys' by Chamberlain, their warnings were ignored and ... read more

The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britai ...

Chris Bryant

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A novel based on letters from the 1930s between the pianist Vladimir Horowitz and a student, revealing a gay relationship that remained secret from everyone including VH's wife (Toscanini's ... read more

The Piano Student

Lea Singer

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His repeated portrayal of adolescent male nudes have tended to marginalise this painter, but this fine new book demonstrates that his artistic merit warrants a much broader appeal.

Henry Scott Tuke

Cicely Robinson

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A brilliant exploration of the complexities of the queer civil rights movement of the last decade.

The Pink Line: The World’s Queer Frontiers

Mark Gevisser

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