Heterosexual Dictatorship: Male Homosexuality in Postwar BritainA revisionist and controversial history of homosexual culture in Britain and the mid-20th century, this incisive account takes as its focus the Wolfenden Committee on Homosexuality and Persecution established in 1954, and uncovers a witchhunt. |
Contents
PART ONE Ventilating Prejudice | 13 |
Men in Uniform | 61 |
Thin Ice | 81 |
Copyright | |
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