On Queer Street
Hugh David
A secret history of gay men during the twentieth century which takes into account well-known personalities as well as the man on the street. The author argues that the ordinary gay men have held their community together after the appearance of AIDS, rather than gay activists.
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Posted by drew_gummerson@abctales.com (1 year ago ) THanks. I hadn't heard of this. I will check it out.
Posted by billyfisher1977 (1 year ago ) A good read this one, but you can feel the author's interest waning as the twenty century marches on. It's very good up until he gets to Wolfenden, and then he's a bit more like a school child who took to long on the first bits of a project and has to finish the rest the night before it has to be handed in.
There aren't really any greatly developed theories in the book, it's more just a potter through various gay lives with a bit of historical context.
There's some really interesting stuff about the gay worlds of the naughties, tens, teens, twenties and thirties, but there's an over-reliance on a few key texts, especially Maurice by EM Forster and Auden's poetry.
However, stuff about homosexuality, class division and levelling, spying and socialism certainly rang my bell.
This book would make a cracking documentary series.
Cheers,
Mark
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