That The Charteer by Mary Renlt was read as a “gay novel” is monstrated by the fact that beme an stant btseller among homosexual rears
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- MARY RENLT, THE BTSELLG GAY NOVELIST THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM
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MARY RENLT, THE BTSELLG GAY NOVELIST THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM
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It would be, as David Sweetman wr Mary Renlt: A Bgraphy, “the first openly [gay] novel by a ser wrer to be published Bra” sce World War II.
Dpe their misgivgs, The Charteer would lnch Renlt’s reer as a btsellg wrer boldly explorg gay them wh gay rears md— an era when police entrapment of gay men was roilg Bra, the “lavenr sre” purged gay workers om U. Lrie falls love wh chaste Andrew, but later rennects wh a former csh named Ralph at a gay party, and mt choose between the Platonic ial or imperfect gratifitn.
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The Charteer stck a chord among gay rears the UK when Longmans agreed to publish 1953. ” Another advertisement for the book crowed, “steady sal for eight months, ” while hasteng to quote the Birmgham Post: “Miss Renlt’s treatment of the theme of homosexual love uld not be more hont, impartial, or sympathetic, or ls likely to offend agast moraly.
” As wh The Charteer, gay rears were hooked on the honty and openns The Last of the We. Acrdg to Sweetman, her mailbox was crammed wh letters om gay men who thanked the thor for articulatg their sir; they shared their memori of timate iendships wh school mat and army buddi. By then, “gay bookshops San Francis had proment ‘Renlt' sectns, ” Sweetman wr.