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VERLAE AND RIMBD: THE GAY POETS OF GAI PARIS
Their love affair challenged the stutnal proscriptns and ep prejudic of their era, and their urage wrg about gay love mark them out as early pneers of LGBTQ rights and of a tolerant and clive approach to sexual inti. It should also be remembered that Verlae was imprisoned for two years a Belgian prison the 1870s not for the famo shootg cint volvg Rimbd, but for the ‘crime’ of beg a homosexual. Arthur Rimbd, the ee-spired French poet whose openly gay liftyle shocked even the most avant gar artists of London and Paris the late 19th Century.
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