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At the time, the only gay men he knew of – Freddy Mercury and Gee Michael – looked nothg like him.
A Pakistani man now his 30s, he remembers the feelgs of isolatn and pa that me wh keepg his sexualy a secret until he got to universy, where he felt able to e out as gay to himself, then others.
A Dutiful Boy is a betiful memoir about his upbrgg and the seemg patibily of those two facets of his inty: beg Pakistani and gay. I grew up outsi of London, a town whout so much as a gay bar, and where I didn’t know any other LGBTQ+ people my age. Beg bisexual (I now intify as gay) uld at tim feel sry.
GAYT PLAC IN PENNSYLVANIA FOR 2020
This was also the experience of Pl Flynn, thor of Good As You: From Prejudice to Pri – 30 Years of Gay Bra, which is exactly what sounds like: an excellent nonfictn book chartg gay history between 1984 and 2014, when same-sex marriage was legalised, and mappg agast Pl’s own personal history (and fanatic knowledge of pop culture). Pl grew up Manchter, where his first year of sixth form llege cid wh the troductn of Sectn 28, a law troduced 1988 by Margaret Thatcher’s ernment to ban tn around homosexualy, particularly schools. It meant that Pl was a teenager a climate whereby homosexualy was rarely talked about.
But luckily, by that pot, he had already found queer lerature – the plays of gay wrer Joe Orton. 'I regnised the two gay men who ran the shop bee they also worked The Hacienda nteen. They had me totally ssed, so we had one of those nversatns you do as a tentative teenager where you sort of adm to beg gay whout que spellg out.
‘There is somethg folkloric about gay lerature’.