http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/07/30/47033 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:43:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/07/30/47033/comment-page-1#comment-134499 Stephen Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:43:03 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=47033#comment-134499 This was life for many, but as counterpoint to this letter I recommend <i>Into The Silence</i> about Mallory and the first attempt to climb Everest. The world the men move in is almost entirely homosexual: John Maynard Keyes, Rupert Brook, Lytton Strachey and his brother, Mallory himself, etc. Though the men often married their whole world was shaped by the romantic and often sexual relationships formed at school and university. Among their circle their affairs were an open secret, which is how things were arranged among men of their class. If they followed the rules they had a degree of freedom that is surprising to say the least. Another interesting viewpoint is the recent biography of Forster <i>A Great Unrecorded History</i>. This was life for many, but as counterpoint to this letter I recommend Into The Silence about Mallory and the first attempt to climb Everest. The world the men move in is almost entirely homosexual: John Maynard Keyes, Rupert Brook, Lytton Strachey and his brother, Mallory himself, etc. Though the men often married their whole world was shaped by the romantic and often sexual relationships formed at school and university. Among their circle their affairs were an open secret, which is how things were arranged among men of their class. If they followed the rules they had a degree of freedom that is surprising to say the least. Another interesting viewpoint is the recent biography of Forster A Great Unrecorded History.

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