Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Aruntraveller on April 25, 2020, 09:25:26 AM
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I'm guessing a lot of you will not have heard of this author:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/11/donald-west-obituary?
I'm posting it because his was the first serious book I ever read on homosexuality (even though it has already been in print some 15 years by the time I came to it) and the one that in part gave me much needed boost to my self esteem. The book, as is noted in the obituary is very cautious, nevertheless I know that it helped me, and many of my friends to make sense of what in the early 70's was a very isolating experience.
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My parents campaigned for decriminalisation of homosexuality when I was a child (mum - Quaker), it's almost certainly amongst some of their non-fiction paperbacks boxed up in the loft at their house where my daughter now lives. When self isolating comes to an end I'll either retrieve the box myself or ask daughter's husband to go through it & see if it's there. Let's hope the paperbacks haven't rotted, they were pretty well packed and stored when parents moved to that house as they didn't want to cull just because they'd moved somewhere smaller, we too wanted to keep them.