1973-2001 : 7 more unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life. Gay Century
(2023)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Peter Scott-Presland, 2023
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781839785672 MWT17310923, 1839785675 17310923
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
'A Gay Century: Vol 2' is a vivid portrait of gay life in recent history, using a series of seven playlets which are dramatic, angry, funny and heartbreaking in turn. A camp old man collides with Gay Liberation and gets a new lease of life; a gay bandsman can't grieve for his lover killed in an IRA bomb, until he's thrown out of the army for being gay; a gay man and a lesbian decide to have a baby, but their partners plot to stop it; the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub devastates not only the victims but their friends. Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde, repression and liberation, battle for supremacy; there can only be one victor
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