Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men, 1885-1967. Este artículo no está disponible.Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men, 1885-1967

These interviews provide a series of overlapping and complementary portraits, giving a vivid impression of male homosexual life in the earlier part of this century as recalled in later life by active participants. They are a unique source for a crucial period when the documentary evidence is limited either to the accounts of notorious scandals or the memoirs and biographies of literary and society homosexuals. The interviews are with ordinary people, from a variety of backgrounds and with differing political and social attitudes. Their memories and experiences give us exceptional insights into how homosexual men made sense of their needs and desires, and fashioned for themselves manageable personal and social identities.

These interviews provide a series of overlapping and complementary portraits, giving a vivid impression of male homosexual life in the earlier part of this century as recalled in later life by active participants. They are a unique source for a crucial period when the documentary evidence is limited either to the accounts of notorious scandals or the memoirs and biographies of literary and society homosexuals. The interviews are with ordinary people, from a variety of backgrounds and with differing political and social attitudes. Their memories and experiences give us exceptional insights into how homosexual men made sense of their needs and desires, and fashioned for themselves manageable personal and social identities.