DOES THE SEXUALITY of an artist matter? Do we derive particular meaning from a book or a painting if we know its creator is homosexual?
Noel Coward is best known for Private Lives; Tennessee Williams for A Streetcar Named Desire. Both are tales of marital tension (after a fashion) written by homosexuals. Does it count? Only to those who, yelling “cultural appropriation”, like to scale the ramparts and summon the mob.
Cultural appropriation, a silly phrase favoured by dullards, has been. So what if he did? The world is a better place for the theft.
