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BBC UNVEILS A VICTORIAN HERO - A MONEY-MAD, RACIST, CLOSET GAY
… a homosexual hegemony – which was already operative the Secret Society – went on to fluence, if not ntrol, Brish polics at the begng of the twentieth century.
Rhos himself, the book alleg, was gay, and bee homosexualy was a crimal offence Bra at the time, he realised that gays only survived if they operated :. "Mart Shaw's son Joe, aged 23, and h out of the London Amy of Mic and Dramatic Art, gets an early reer break playg Rhos as a young man; Franc Barber plays the one woman who figured his life, the nrotic Rsian aristocrat Prcs Cathere Radziwell, whom he cled to marry; and Ray Coulthard plays his young assistant Neville Picketg, who di om septiemia, to Rhos's enzied drama unambiguoly asserts that betiful young men were his sexual might thk that the portrayal of a South Ain figure who is racist, rpt and money-grabbg all on a tanic sle, and homosexual to the barga, might not go down too well that untry, but the seri has already been bought by the South Ain Broadstg Corporatn. The Secret Society: Cecil John Rhos’s Plan for a New World Orr by Rob BrownPengu Random Hoe400 pagR350 A new book by Rob Brown on how Cecil John Rhos plotted a new world orr through a secret society also nsirs the polil impact of his homosexualy.
Here is an extract om the tablish the extent to which Rhos’s homosexualy fluenced the cisns he took and the manner which he took them, is necsary to vtigate some of his other relatnships. He was 37 years urse, neher Rhos nor Jamon uld ever adm to a homosexual attractn, but Jamon’s votn to Rhos is suggtive of more than mere iendship – ed a tenr timacy. I'm wonrg, bee Febary is Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr (LGBT) History Month, and the central character of my latt novel, The Devil's Patbsh, seems a perfect ndidate to be reclaimed as an untold story of our non-straight herage.
RECLAIMG EMPIRE'S GREAT GAY HERO
Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald was one of the greatt hero of the Brish empire, who was virtually airbshed out of popular nscns after a homosexual sndal 1903. But to celebrate him now as a gay in is not whout s Macdonald was born Rootfield, Ross-shire 1853, a crofter's son.