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My bt iend high school was gay. Except that we didn’t monly e the word gay France at this time (even if ’s supposed to exist sce 1970). Actually, even the word homosexual wasn’t ed ont of children and teenagers at this time. So he was somethg he hadn’t even a word […]

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HOW EVELYN WGH'S GAY OXFORD LOVER BEME BRISHEAD REVISED’S SEBASTIAN

Ined his tense relatnship wh a fellow stunt spired the most lourful and perhaps most famo character the book: the charismatic and unmistakably homosexual Lord Sebastian Flyte, regnisable to lns through his portrayal on screen by Anthony, who also wrote the 1938 classic Sop, regard the novel, published 1945, as his ‘magnum op’ and he revealed more of himself than any of his prev books. He got dnk for the first time, disvered a zeal for alhol and soon veloped a reputatn for rto Evelyn’s own acunt, most of his Oxford iendships were fed while of the iendships had a pronounced homosexual flavour. ’ – maly homosexual character.

But while the disgrace of Lord Bechamp – who was hound to exile on acunt of his homosexual affairs – provid the ia for Lord Marchma’s story the novel, Alastair Graham remas the most nvcg mol for had often vised Alastair’s home, Barford Hoe, near Stratford-upon-Avon, which was prid over by Alastair’s widowed mother Jsie. Richard Par had been his ‘first homosexual love’, he later told Nancy had e up to Oxford om Wchter the term before him. A small memory that ma me thk of the characters and thk of the gay experience.

The novel Brishead Revised is about one very flawed gay man who suffers and like many gay men of the twentieth century, is not able to live the life he wants. This mdset clouds the gay love, boyiends who live briefly together, and brews this se to a lost gay man choosg to further harm his life. The greatt sight om Brishead Revised is s layered, polilly ambiguo scen reflectg s ntroversial thor Wgh: a plited, anti-Semic, racist gay man.

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