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,
“... homosexuality. Something close to a great replacement theory was embraced in 1958 by the Labour MP Frederick Bellenger, who said that if the ‘malignant canker … were allowed to grow, it would eventually kill off what is known as normal life’. During the second reading of the Sexual Offences Bill in the Commons eight years later, the alarm is ... ”