The Glamour Boys were a small group of young gay Brish Conservative MPs who stood agast Nazism as part of the anti-appeasement movement.
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- LGBTQ+ HISTORY MONTH: REMEMBERG THE GLAMOUR BOYS – THE GAY MPS WHO WARNED 30S BRA ABOUT NAZISM
- GAY MPS 'AMONG FIRST TO WARN BRA ABOUT HLER HAD HEROISM ERASED OM HISTORY'
LGBTQ+ HISTORY MONTH: REMEMBERG THE GLAMOUR BOYS – THE GAY MPS WHO WARNED 30S BRA ABOUT NAZISM
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GAY MPS 'AMONG FIRST TO WARN BRA ABOUT HLER HAD HEROISM ERASED OM HISTORY'
In the 1920s and 1930s of buttoned-up Bra, homosexualy was an illic act, and would rema that way until 1967 when the law changed England and Wal. Even though gay culture was vibrant, existed mostly unrground, s muny forced to socialise wh a certa gree of vertns orr to avoid exposure and the risk of prison.
The German pal was also a hotbed of hedonism where sexual eedoms and gay culture flourished, and where excg new forms of mic and dance ntributed to the febrile atmosphere.
On viss to this liberal metropolis durg that perd, a small group of young Brish Conservative Party MPs – which clud figur such as Ronald Cartland, Anthony Muirhead and Robert Bernays – began to wns the growg persecutn of certa groups Germany, cludg homosexuals and Jews. Yet, spe the risk of exposg their own homosexualy at a time when was illegal, the Glamour Boys brought their ncerns to parliament throughout the 1930s.