{"product_id":"9780241370605","title":"Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1945-1959","description":"\u003cp\u003e**A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR**\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eQuite simply, this book is a work of genius - Matthew Parris, The Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn essential study of post-war gay London life... one of the best anthologies I have ever read - John Self, The Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith it's wide-ranging selection, generous biographical notes and provocative bibliography, Some Men in London is a serious and important contribution to our understanding of Britain up to today - Fiona Sampson, The Tablet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn absolutely extraordinary book ... about actually what life was like for homosexual men in London in the 1940s and the 1950s... It's amazing - Dominic Sandbrook \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first part of a major new anthology which uncovers the rich reality of life for queer men in London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\u003cbr\u003eIn a major new anthology, Peter Parker explores what it was actually like for queer men in London in this period, whether they were well-known figures such as John Gielgud, 'Chips' Channon and E.M. Forster, or living lives of quiet - or occasionally rowdy - anonymity in pubs, clubs, more public places of assignation, or at home. It is rich with letters, diaries, psychological textbooks, novels, films, plays and police records, covering a wide range of viewpoints, from those who deplored homosexuality to those who campaigned for its decriminalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis first volume, from 1945 to 1959, details a community forced to live at constant risk of blackmail or prison. Yet it also shows a thriving and joyous subculture, one that enriched a mainstream culture often ignorant of its debt to gay creators. Some Men In London is a testament to queer life, which was always much more complex than newspapers, governments and the Metropolitan Police Force imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49647704441080,"sku":"EB_SS0600_C11-04_SYDNEY","price":64.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780241370605-1.jpg?v=1783582472","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780241370605","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}