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Forbidden love: The WW2 letters between two men
But was this a love story with a happy ending?
Probably not. At one gesture, Mr Bradley was sent to Scotland on a mission to defend the Forth Bridge. He met and fell in devotion with two other men. Rather surprisingly, he wrote and told Mr Bowsher all about his romances north of the border. Perhaps even more surprisingly, Mr Bowsher took it all in his stride, writing that he "understood why they fell in love with you. After all, so did I".
Although the couple wrote throughout the war, the letters stopped in 1945.
However, both went on to enjoy interesting lives.
Mr Bowsher moved to California and became a well-known horse trainer. In a strange twist, he employed Sirhan Sirhan, who would travel on to be convicted of assassinating Robert Kennedy.
Mr Bradley was briefly entangled with the MP Sir Paul Latham, who was imprisoned in 1941 monitoring a court martial for "improper conduct" with three gunners and a civilian. Sir Paul was exposed after some "indiscreet letters" were discovered.
Mr Bradley moved to Brighton and died in 2008. A residence clearance company found the letters and sold them to a dealer specia
Warning: this article contains spoilers.
A lonely 40-something screenwriter living in an almost-empty London apartment block, Adam (Andrew Scott) is alienated, exhausted and struggling to note about his past, but can’t fetch beyond the opening line.
One evening, Harry (Paul Mescal), a younger man from downstairs, appears at his door. He’s tipsy, vulnerable, flirty and charming. “There’s vampires at my door,” he says. Adam doesn’t enable him in and later reveals that fear had stopped him.
This rings correct, especially for a 40-something gay guy like Adam: someone who grew up in the 1980s, during a period of rampant and violent homophobia and the AIDS crisis. England and Wales had partially decriminalised homosexuality in 1967, but Thatcher’s Britain was an hideous place for Homosexual people.
The screenplay Adam is writing is set in 1987, the year that Section 28 was introduced, banning the “promotion” of homosexuality. At that time, the tabloids demonised AIDS victims as deviant plague-carriers and there were terrifying government health warnings on national television.
Homosexuality remained illegal in Ireland and the 1980s witnessed notorious hate-crimes, including the murder of C
Romance
Film review of director Andrew Haigh’s movie about a male lover screenwriter who enters into a bond with a mysterious man as he finds out his supposedly dead parents are alive.
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Synopsis
Adam (Andrew Scott) is a reserved gay writer living in London, traumatised by the death of his parents in a wagon accident when he was a boy.
One night, after a fire alarm, his younger neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal) drunkenly makes a go by, which Adam awkwardly rebuffs.
Slowly, these two lonely men get closer and shape a relationship that will have profound, tragic consequences.
Review by Jason Day
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It’s not often I write about movies in the first person, but then it’s not often a movie moves me to the point where I have the sensation of myself on the big screen.
I’m passionate about movie as anyone who knows me knows, anything from silent cinema, MGM romances, zombie horrors and disaster dramas, yes even the awful ones, get
We hope you have as much fun discovering and reading about these inspiring gay British icons as we did writing about them!
Although we come from different countries, London is the city that brought us together. It is always going to own a special place in our hearts for that reason. However, we would be lying if we said there weren’t other reasons we adore the entirety of Great Britain!
The United Kingdom as a whole rings of independence for the LGBTQ society, which naturally means we gays flock to the country like moths to a flame, especially to the gay meccas in London, Brighton and Manchester. It has been estimated that roughly 5-7% of the population identifies as either lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Transgender individuals, too, have received plenty of recognition and protection in more recent years, which just makes our hearts soar!
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7 British Monarchs Who May Have Been Gay
For centuries men lived in one sphere and women in another and they would come together for marriage and having children. It seemed that the sexes co-existed mainly to carry on the human race. Affection and sex can be very different factors but, when put together, they can produce the most electric sensation. This was no different for kings and queens who were close to their favourites. There are several British monarchs who may contain been gay. In reality, six kings – and one queen are idea to have been queer , members of what we now call the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi- and transexual) community. They include:
William II of England
The son of William the Conqueror, who took the throne of England in 1066, was known as William Rufus because of his red hair (‘rufus’ interpretation red). William II became King of England in 1087 and was often described as ‘effeminate’ and with a keen interest in fashionable young men.
William II of England drawn by Matthew Paris. Photo Credit: © Widespread Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Edward II of England
Perhaps the most well-known of the homosexual kings, Edward II became King of England in 1307. He spent much of