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I love historical (queer) fiction, but it suffers even more than other genres under the burden of killing the gays. It pleases me inordinately that modern m/m fiction is giving historical queer characters the happy endings they so richly merit, but nothing thrills me more than finding a novel from an earlier time period that gave its gay characters an on-page happy ending. Two of my all-time favourites are Mauriceand The Charioteer.
Written in and dedicated &#;To a happier year,&#; Maurice is the work of E.M. Forster, published posthumously when the manuscript was found in his home after his death. I&#;ve blogged in detail about the origins of the novel already. The brief version is Forster wanted to design a world in which a delighted ending for gay men was workable, and he gave his main characters the happily ever after he couldn&#;t envision for himself in life.
The Charioteer is the labor of Mary Renault, a lesbian author who more commonly produced works about the Ancient Greeks, although she did dabble with a couple of other contemporary novels. (It&#;s another nove
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 adore 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
However, both went on to like interesting lives.
Mr Bowsher moved to California and became a well-known horse trainer. In a strange twist, he employed Sirhan Sirhan, who would go on to be convicted of assassinating Robert Kennedy.
Mr Bradley was briefly entangled with the MP Sir Paul Latham, who was imprisoned in following 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 d
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A Queer Film Classic
QUEER FILM CLASSICS is a critically acclaimed series that launched in , edited by Thomas Waugh and Matthew Hays, covering some of the most key and influential films about and/or by LGBT people made between and , and written by head LGBT film scholars and critics.
A Queer Production Classic on the Canadian feature documentary subtitled "The Unashamed Stories of Queer woman Lives": a film on lesbian experience from the s to the s as seen through the lens of lesbian pulp fiction. The film interweaves an historical dramatization with interviews with women who speak frankly about their experiences living as lesbians in times when they could not be out, as well as with Ann Bannon, the American writer who wrote womxn loving womxn pulp fiction novels from to known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. This award-winning movie, directed by Aerlyn Weissman and Lynne Fernie, ended up as the most successful ever produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and became emblematic of the bold new lgbtq+ cinema of the prior s. In , the NFB re-released the
Forbidden Love
As next in line for the Evergreen crown, Prince Merrick Davendall’s future involves ruling, marriage, and producing an heir of his own. But he’s long been tormented by desires that are far from princely. Especially when the lovely Cassius is promoted to be his new valet, and Merrick is struck by a longing like never before - a longing to know him far beyond royal and servant.
After his father’s passing, Cassius Havendale’s sole duty is to provide for his family. A promotion to serve a pampered prince is something he endures only for their sake. Surely Prince Merrick has no understanding of the true suffering of the common people, nor could he possibly understand what it’s favor to desperately desire something he cannot have.
Except the prince is not at all what Cassius imagined. Kind, humorous, and caring to those in desire, he also shares Cassius’s affinity for the arts. In truth, Merrick understands his deepest vulnerabilities in a most remarkable way.
As their affection deepens, the underlying tension between them becomes unbearable and they’re unable to