Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 by Peter Parker #foliosociety of gratitude

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upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land

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Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 by Peter Parker #foliosociety of gratitudeIn 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. Peter Parker's fascinating new compendium explores what it was actually like for queer men in London in this period, whether they were well known figures such as Francis Bacon, Joe Orton and Kenneth Williams, or living lives of quiet or occasionally rowdy