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BAN, THE GAY ARTIST WHO ‘HATED QUEERS’
Peppiatt is drawn to homosexuals, which mak him wonr about himself; but Barcelona, when he giv a try and lets a man kiss him on the mouth, he is so revolted that he jumps up and ns out of the apartment. And then some of them who are really homosexual simply n’t accept . Dyer had entered Ban’s life as an East End tough but proved to be far ls powerful than the homosexual who took him .
” As for his sexualy: “You know, I don’t actually like what are lled homosexuals, and I hate when they go on and on about beg queer. And the pater Lucian Frd is, of urse, here—he and Ban were great iends till they had a fallg out neher one would expla, so ’s impossible to know if ’s before or after their pture that Ban tells Peppiatt that Frd once tried to be homosexual but failed, though “Lucian has what’s lled the smallt ck England and of urse you n’t go far the queer world wh that. Francis Ban Your Blood is so enthrallg part bee, whatever you thk of the art, Ban is such a wele rrective to our era of gay marriage, glaad, and service the ary—the age of what a iend lls the Whe Picket Fence.
At the Colony Room, the gay bar om hell, you are an era of booze and hurt and homophobia, and a celty that seems peculiarly English, though part of the vicns is simply the ldns gay men brg to appearanc. Ban Was Gay.