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CAMBRIDGE'S GAY PAST: OM THE 17TH CENTURY TO THE FOUNDATN OF STONEWALL
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Early socialist Edward Carpenter, who graduated om Try Hall 1862, was a leadg advote of homosexual equaly, exprsg his views publicly, spe the illegaly of homosexualy, a number of books, cludg Love's Comg of Age and The Intermediate Sex. The ia of gay relatnships as an 'ecstatic munn of souls' was popularised the late 19th century by the historian and polil activist Goldsworthy Low Dickson, a fellow of Kg's College.
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St Cathare's alumn Sir Ian McKellen was one of the foundg members of Stonewall and Cambridge has the reputatn of beg the most gay-iendly Universy the untry, wh s LGBT Society reachg out to 1000 stunts. On Saturdays they all put on their bt bell-bottoms and head to the Anchor, home to the bt gay club the Forster is the first person most people thk of when they thk of queer Cambridge.
Forster’s pneerg gay love story unfolds agast the backdrop of the cy’s lh parks and languid are also the settg for Edward Carpenter’s reflectns on his gloomy youth at Try Hall College – the third stop on the trail.