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GAY TWIST ON NOEL COWARD'S BRIEF ENUNTER
But perhaps the most astoundg thg of all is the fact that – at a time when homosexualy was illegal and would rema so for some time – he lived an openly gay is this that mak a newly disvered photograph album so extraordary. Apparently piled the 1930s by Coward’s clost female iend, Joyce Carey, the album is a remarkable sight to gay liv of the terwar years, lived pla sight.
I uld sense his nervons rellg a time when gay men had to watch their backs. Coward, like his fellow gay theatril superstar Ivor Novello, lived fear of Osr Wil’s fate. But importantly, like Wil, he was the role mol for an entire generatn of gay people.