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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.
A never-before-seen llectn of photographs taken while homosexualy was still illegal the UK has ptured English playwright Noel Coward wh two of his male lovers and many of his famo timate snaps, taken the 1920s and 30s, show the flamboyant star at the height of his succs as playwright, actor and wrote more than 65 plays, the most notable of which clu 1939 edy Prent Lghter and the later triumph Blhe Spir, and enjoyed a succsful film reer that is perhaps most noted nowadays for his crime boss meo The Italian imag were taken the garn of his untry home Kent and on the beach of the Bahamas, where he holidayed 1937 ahead of the outbreak of the Send World of his male lovers are featured - the English stage and film actor Alan Webb and Jack Wilson, a married US stock broker who had a relatnship wh Coward the 1920s. He lived fear of that, like most gay men at the time did. I looked so gay, yet felt so natural.