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Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
Content: In March 1954 Peter Wildeblood was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for homosexual offences. The case in which he was involved - the 'Montagu Case' - was the subject of considerable controversy and was largely responsible for the Government's decision to set up a Committee to enquire into the whole question of homosexuality and the laws relating to it. Peter Wildeblood has now made a unique contribution to the discussion of this problem - for this is a first hand account of what it means to be a homosexual and one of the central figures in a cause célèbre. A skilled journalist, who at the time of his conviction was Diplomatic Correspondent of the Daily Mail, he has applied these talents to a report on his own life - the circumstances leading to his arrest, the behaviour of the police, the trial, his imprisonment in Wormwood Scrubs, and his return to the world. He writes about his own problems with candour and detachment, and about those of other people - including his fellow prisoners - with real feeling. (from the jacket) Background / Biography: Peter Wildeblood also wrote A Way of Life. Wikipedia entry Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"Sometimes, when a man is dying, he directs that his body shall be given to the doctors, so that the causes of his suffering and death may be investigated, and the knowledge used to help others. I cannot give my body yet; only my heart and my mind, trusting that by this gift I can give some hope and courage to other men like myself, and to the rest of the world some understanding. I am a homosexual. It is easy for me to make that admission now, because much of my private life has already been made public by the newspapers. I am in the rare, and perhaps privileged, position of having nothing left to hide. My only concern is that some good may come at last out of so much evil, and with that end in view I shall set down what happened to me as faithfully and fairly as I can. I do not pity myself, and I do not ask for pity. If there is bitterness in this book, I hope it will be the bitterness of medicine, not of poison." opening paragraphs Secondhand booksellers |
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