About this Event
An evening with Peter Parker, celebrating the paperback publication of Some Men in London, his two volume series on postwar queer life in London from 1945 to 1967
Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and firsthand accounts, Parker offers a panoramic portrait of queer life in London from the end of the Second World War to the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967. Across two volumes, the book captures both the danger and the vitality of a community living under constant threat, yet determined to live and love as they chose.
From well-known figures such as Francis Bacon, Joe Orton, and Kenneth Williams, to the many men whose lives unfolded in pubs, clubs, private rooms, and public spaces of encounter, Some Men in London reveals a world at once precarious and exuberant.
Peter Parker is the author of biographies of J. R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood, The Old Lie, The Last Veteran, Housman Country and A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners. He edited A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel and Twentieth-Century Writers, is an advisory editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and contributed essays to Britten's Century and Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read. He has written about people, books, art, architecture and gardening for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, and lives in London's East End.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Libreria Bookshop, 65 Hanbury Street, London, United Kingdom
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