West End Vice
Alan Hollinghurst: Queer London, 8 May 2025
Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1945-59
edited by Peter Parker.
Penguin, 445 pp., £30, May 2024,978 0 241 37060 5 Show More
edited by Peter Parker.
Penguin, 445 pp., £30, May 2024,
Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1960-67
edited by Peter Parker.
Penguin, 416 pp., £30, September 2024,978 0 241 68370 5 Show More
edited by Peter Parker.
Penguin, 416 pp., £30, September 2024,
“... theme, or alarm, throughout these books. In 1950, Herbert Read, reviewing the unexpurgated text of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, described Lord Alfred Douglas, who had died only five years before, as ‘the most complete cad in history’. The birth-control pioneer Marie Stopes, who’d been a friend of Douglas’s and thought his sonnets ‘second only ... ”
