Melville’s novel and Brten’s opera are poignant remrs of the bety and relevance of gay history.
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This year marks the centennial of the random disvery of Herman Melville’s novella by a scholar who was rearchg a bgraphy of the thor, and for a century “Billy Budd” has been analyzed and theorized as the ultimate battle of nocence, envy, voyrism and latent homosexualy.
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