Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 Jessica Kingsley Publishers Rechy describes this world with

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

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Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 Jessica Kingsley Publishers Rechy describes this world withIn 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