"Speak its Name! is a brilliant idea, brilliantly executed." -
Simon Callow This collection of quotations by and about gay people
is a celebration of the advances in LGBT rights over the last
half-century and a demonstration of the battle against oppression
and prejudice that led to them. A diverse range of people from the
worlds of entertainment, sport, fashion, business, science,
politics and the arts share their thoughts on coming out, equality,
homophobia, love, sex, promiscuity, bullying, labels and marriage.
Amusing observations by Noel Coward, Tallulah Bankhead, Quentin
Crisp, Boy George and Alan Bennett are interspersed with extracts
from revealing interviews with Dusty Springfield, Ian McKellen,
Freddie Mercury, Clive Barker, George Michael and William S.
Burroughs and diary entries by Kenneth Williams, Joe Orton, W.H.
Auden and John Maynard Keynes. John Gielgud and Alan Turing's
disturbing accounts of their arrests at a time when homosexual acts
were punishable with a prison sentence contrast with touching
love-letters from Violet Trefusis to her lover, Vita
Sackville-West, King James I to his favourite, George Villiers,
Marquis of Buckingham, and between Benjamin Britten and his partner
Peter Pears. Contributions by Oscar Wilde, Lord Montagu of
Beaulieu, John Wolfenden, Field Marshal Montgomery, Lord Arran,
Margaret Thatcher, Waheed Alli and David Cameron demonstrate the
enormous developments in gay rights in Britain in recent decades.
Also included are the reflections of Julie Andrews, Elizabeth
Taylor, Joan Collins, Liza Minnelli, Eartha Kitt, Madonna,
Elisabeth Welch, Grace Jones and other 'gay icons' - that select
group of individuals who, regardless of their sexuality, LGBT
people have taken to their hearts.
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