Ten tantalising minutes of clips from BBC Television's Play of the Month, September 1976: John Osborne's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, with John Gielgud as Lord Henry Wotton, Jeremy Brett as Basil Hallward and Peter Firth (creator of the, as it were, Daniel Radcliffe role in Equus) as Dorian:
Monday, 24 March 2008
Sixty years on
A new edition of the 1948 gay-themed novel An Air That Kills by Francis King. (He's still at work today; I particularly recommend his 1993 autobiography, Yesterday Came Suddenly.)
Saturday, 15 March 2008
Painful path
Former top cop and now London Mayoral candidate Brian Paddick shares his gay memories.
Hat tip: Towle Road
Less unsung than I thought
In an earlier post I described Antony Grey as "a not-sufficiently-sung hero".
To my great pleasure I find he was last year's Stonewall Hero of the Year. Congratulations, sir.
And he's writing two blogs, anticant's arena and anticant's burrow.
Apologies for the old, creased photo - it comes from my cuttings files (Sunday Telegraph, 1995). Couldn't find a single image of him online.
Our great-great-grandfather
Introducing John Addington Symonds, the first modern historian of (male) homosexuality, and the first advocate of gay liberation in Britain.
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Lost to us
The Adonis of my generation, Jon-Erik Hexum, died tragically in 1984 aged 26, after an accident on the set of his TV series, Cover Up.
These clips (10 minutes) show him in the title role of the 1983 Joan Collins cheesefest Making of a Male Model. Forgive the cheese, and share my awe:
Friday, 7 March 2008
Life or death
His boyfriend was executed, and nineteen-year-old Mehdi Kazemi fears the same fate if he returns to Iran. But Britain wants to send him back.
Cute traitor
Alcoholic rentboy, Nazi broadcaster: John Amery finished up on the scaffold. Ronald Harwood tells all.
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
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