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Notes from a Lost Gay Life
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'An affecting, vividly illuminating evocation of a lost landscape and its inhabitants' Francis Wheen For 60 years Mr George Leo John Lucas led a double life. By day, he was a civil servant at the Board of Trade, but by night - unable to live openly as a gay man before the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 - he was a fixture of London's colourful underground gay scene, a twilight world of petty crime, louche pubs and public lavatories. He was also an obsessive diary writer. When Mr Lucas died in 2014 he left his diaries to the journalist Hugo Greenhalgh. This book combines Mr Lucas's deliciously indiscreet entries over the course of the 1960s with Greenhalgh's razor-sharp historical insights. Together they give a vivid, one-of-a-kind account of gay life that has been overlooked.

Author Biography:

Hugo Greenhalgh has been a journalist for more than 25 years. He is the editor of Openly, the LGBTQ+ news website from the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Before that he worked for the Financial Times. He has been nominated for the European Press Prize, Amnesty International's Media Awards and the GLAAD Media Awards. He is also a former activist. Aged 19, he took the British Government to the European Court of Human Rights over the gay male age of consent in the UK.
Release date NZ
May 2nd, 2024
Pages
320
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  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Dimensions
155x223x28
ISBN-13
9781838958121
Product ID
38199278

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