Forster’s novel featured a rare happy endg for gay characters. William di Canz’s new book, “Alec,” picks up and ntu their story.
Contents:
- GAY SEX HALTED E.M. FORSTER'S CAREER
- A NEW NOVEL REVENTS E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY LOVE STORY ‘MRICE’
- “ALEC” NTU THE STORY OF E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY NOVEL “MRICE”
- A GAY OLD TIME? MRICE BY E. M. FORSTER
GAY SEX HALTED E.M. FORSTER'S CAREER
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Forster, cludg his sex diary, reveal that his first enunter wh a man, at age 38, and the way pound his lifelong stggle wh homosexualy killed his creative drive. Acrdg to the Tim, "A poignant entry stat: 'Now I am 85 how annoyed I am wh society for wastg my time by makg homosexualy crimal. Forster’s “Mrice” offered a rarefied view of queer possibily: a happy endg for gay men, wh the book’s protagonist, the wealthy and well-ted stockbroker Mrice Hall, fdg love wh the young groundskeeper Alec Scudr.
A NEW NOVEL REVENTS E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY LOVE STORY ‘MRICE’
Th, he watched his ially ntemporary novel age to an embalmed perd piece about the cripplg, self-nnibalizg anxieti that homosexual men lived wh early-20th-century England.
“ALEC” NTU THE STORY OF E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY NOVEL “MRICE”
Forster that bee he, Forster, was celibate, he didn’t know what he was talkg about Mrice, his novel of gay love triumphant. Forster died 1970 at the age of 91, at the dawn of gay liberatn. He had put away his one gay novel, among a lot of other unpublished work, but Mrice appeared prt almost as soon as he died, wh revisns suggted by his iends down through the years.
It was Brish, gay, and upper class, everythg a black Amerin queer uld want. That was unlike other gay novels I was readg at the time, which end wh the guillote, murr around the mpfire, lonely overdos, exhsted partur, or the long farewell of lookg back on lost love. I knew om Colette that gay lovers uld retire to a ral paradise.
A GAY OLD TIME? MRICE BY E. M. FORSTER
The mornist gay past was still prent, livg Santa Moni or the Chelsea Hotel, and Aun would never die. Gentlemen of a certa age iated young men to the sly yet pensatory elism of big cy culture—the opera, the philharmonic, the theater, mms, art galleri, classic cema, readg lists—and the later got, boys would be boys, boys would be the offsprg of the Beats, to a different kd of mic, a different kd of darkns, downtown, the East Village, where much of the New Wave was gay and all of high. HIV treatment and HIV preventn have advanced such that boys who weren’t born when the gay plague first h do not live unr threat.