On the trail of Cambridge's rich and radil queer past | Gay and lbian travel | The Guardian

Contents:

• 5 - NORMALY AND QUEERNS GAY FICTN
• GAY CAMBRIDGE, UNED KGDOM | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANN TO AMERIN GAY AND LBIAN LERATURE
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

5 - NORMALY AND QUEERNS GAY FICTN

Both Blunt and Burgs were gay and may have been lovers – at a time when was illegal Bra.

Aislg, the novel’s gay, Sttish, workg-class heroe, follows her girliend to the universy cy. Lookg around, I saw no visible signs of queer life: no gay bars or f, and only one monthly club night. Over the years, was home to a plethora of gay l legends, om EM Forster and Edward Carpenter to Patricia Duncker and Stephen Fry.

GAY CAMBRIDGE, UNED KGDOM | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!

Not only has fed the homosexual imagatns of a host of thors, but s spac and streets have been central to queer polil anisg.

A Great Rerd History nnects listeners to queer histori, spac, and Anchor pub was once home to the bt gay club Cambridge.

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANN TO AMERIN GAY AND LBIAN LERATURE

But on the other, there were the polil groups that were startg up, like the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly.

On Saturdays they all put on their bt bell-bottoms and head to the Anchor, home to the bt gay club the Forster is the first person most people thk of when they thk of queer Cambridge. Forster is now nsired somethg of a gay granddaddy, but he didn’t publish any explicly homoerotic work his lifetime.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

When his novel Mrice me out after his ath 1971, was celebrated far and wi by rears embolned by gay liberatn. Forster’s pneerg gay love story unfolds agast the backdrop of the cy’s lh parks and languid are also the settg for Edward Carpenter’s reflectns on his gloomy youth at Try Hall College – the third stop on the trail.

” An environmentalist and radil socialist, Carpenter was also a stnch advote of overt homosexualy.