Jim Kepner:
This is a book of edited interviews with fifteen older gay Englishmen about their depressing lives between the Criminal Law Amendment of 1885 (the Labouchere amendment, under which Oscar Wilde and a great many Englishmen since were tried) and the homosexuai law reform in the Sexual Offenses Act of 1967, occasioned by 15 years of anti-gay witchhunts and heated public discussion leading up to and following the 1957 Wolfenden Report. At the time of the interviews, few of these men had escaped the oppressive psychology of the closet.
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