Polari’s Editor Writes His Coming Out Story.
This is the first in a new Polari Magazine series.
Permalink“Maurice armed me with a phrase that I still use to this day, for the most part because it’s so funny: “I’m an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort,” as the hero tells his therapist. It was that exact phrase I used when I came out to my friend.”
Maurice, the book that helped me to understand my sexuality
How the book, following on from the film, changed the life of William Summers.
PermalinkMaurice is not a great film. It is not even as great a book as Forster’s others. Yet at the age of sixteen I found it to be revolutionary.
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