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Product details
- ISBN 9781915494306
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2023
- Publisher: The Conrad Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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'A Gay Century: Vol 2' is a vivid portrait of gay life in recent history, using a series of seven playlets which are dramatic, angry, funny and heartbreaking in turn.
A camp old man collides with Gay Liberation and gets a new lease of life; a gay bandsman can't grieve for his lover killed in an IRA bomb - until he's thrown out of the army for being gay; a gay man and a lesbian decide to have a baby, but their partners plot to stop it; the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub devastates not only the victims but their friends. Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde - repression and liberation - battle for supremacy; there can only be one victor.
Peter Scott-Presland has been a performer, songwriter, playwright, journalist and historian since 1971. Three of his musicals have been nominated for awards, and a brewery tried unsuccessfully to ban his play, Leather, from their pub theatre. He is halfway through writing a three-volume history of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, 'Amiable Warriors'. He is the recipient of the 2021 International Lesbian and Gay Cultural Network Award. He lives in South London.
