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    A Gay Century Volume 2 1973-2001: 7 more unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life
    A Gay Century: Volume One: 1900–1962: 10 unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life
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    A Gay Century Series

    By Peter Scott-Presland

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    About this series

    ‘A Gay Century: Vol 2’ is a vivid portrait of gay life in recent history, using a series of seven playlets which are dramatic, angry, funny and heartbreaking in turn.

    A camp old man collides with Gay Liberation and gets a new lease of life; a gay bandsman can’t grieve for his lover killed in an IRA bomb – until he’s thrown out of the army for being gay; a gay man and a lesbian decide to have a baby, but their partners plot to stop it; the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub devastates not only the victims but their friends. Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde – repression and liberation – battle for supremacy; there can only be one victor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Conrad Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2021
    A Gay Century Volume 2 1973-2001: 7 more unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life
    A Gay Century: Volume One: 1900–1962: 10 unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life

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      A Gay Century: Volume One: 1900–1962: 10 unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life
      A Gay Century: Volume One: 1900–1962: 10 unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life

      A Gay Century: Volume One: 1900–1962: 10 unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life

      Peter Scott-Presland
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      ‘A Gay Century: Vol 1’ is a canter through 60 years of gay history in ten serious or comic playlets. Wilde’s deathbed encounter with Queen Victoria; the theft of the Irish crown jewels by a sadomasochistic cabal in Dublin Castle; Compton Mackenzie demanding of the Home Secretary that his own lesbian novel be prosecuted like ‘The Well of Loneliness’, because he needs the money; matinee idol Ivor Novello sharing a cell in Wandsworth with teenage psycho ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser; the Jeremy Thorpe/Norman Scott affair seen through the eyes of the dogs involved, etc. etc. A sideways look at our queer past offers vivid vignettes which may or may not be true - and if they’re not, they ought to be.

      ‘A Gay Century: Vol 1’ is a canter through 60 years of gay history in ten serious or comic playlets. Wilde’s deathbed encounter with Queen Victoria; the theft of the Irish crown jewels by a sadomasochistic cabal in Dublin Castle; Compton Mackenzie demanding of the Home Secretary that his own lesbian novel be prosecuted like ‘The Well of Loneliness’, because he needs the money; matinee idol Ivor Novello sharing a cell in Wandsworth with teenage psycho ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser; the Jeremy Thorpe/Norman Scott affair seen through the eyes of the dogs involved, etc. etc. A sideways look at our queer past offers vivid vignettes which may or may not be true - and if they’re not, they ought to be.

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      A Gay Century Volume 2 1973-2001: 7 more unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life
      A Gay Century Volume 2 1973-2001: 7 more unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life

      A Gay Century Volume 2 1973-2001: 7 more unreliable vignettes of Lesbian and Gay Life

      Peter Scott-Presland
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      ‘A Gay Century: Vol 2’ is a vivid portrait of gay life in recent history, using a series of seven playlets which are dramatic, angry, funny and heartbreaking in turn. A camp old man collides with Gay Liberation and gets a new lease of life; a gay bandsman can’t grieve for his lover killed in an IRA bomb – until he’s thrown out of the army for being gay; a gay man and a lesbian decide to have a baby, but their partners plot to stop it; the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub devastates not only the victims but their friends. Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde – repression and liberation – battle for supremacy; there can only be one victor.

      ‘A Gay Century: Vol 2’ is a vivid portrait of gay life in recent history, using a series of seven playlets which are dramatic, angry, funny and heartbreaking in turn. A camp old man collides with Gay Liberation and gets a new lease of life; a gay bandsman can’t grieve for his lover killed in an IRA bomb – until he’s thrown out of the army for being gay; a gay man and a lesbian decide to have a baby, but their partners plot to stop it; the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub devastates not only the victims but their friends. Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde – repression and liberation – battle for supremacy; there can only be one victor.

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