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The Trials of Oscar Wilde by Michael S. Foldy. List Price:£25.00
	Following Oscar Wilde's 1895 trial for committing "acts of gross indecency with men", he lost his freedom, family, reputation, will to create and even his will to live. This book sets out to examine what it was about late Victorian society that allowed this to happen, indeed needed it to happen, and what the trials tell us about the taste and morals of late Victorian England. Michael S. Foldy argues that the prosecution of Wilde was directly linked to many larger social, cultural and political issues that transcended the legal and moral concerns with his homosexuality. Analyzing the trial testimony and the coverage in the press, he considers the various images and metaphors used to describe the threat that Wilde posed to English society and he investigates the social and cultural contexts that dictated how those images were perceived. Foldy shows how the public construction of Wilde's identity as "deviant" was both informed and limited by existing heterosexism structures of repression and mechanisms of restraint and by the emergence of a new and modern variant of homophobia. He suggests that Lord Rosebery, the prime minister of the time, may himself have been a homosexual and that the successful prosecution of Wilde was necessary to prevent a larger and infinitely more damaging revelation. Ultimately, he locates the meaning of the trials within the rhetorical context of the contemporary public debate over the "health" of England - a debate whose terms had been defined largely by moral conservatives - and demonstrates that within a nation that had many reasons to be concerned about the future, Wilde was perceived to represent a potent constellation of threats to the health of British society. Click here to buy from Amazon.co.uk
Hardcover - 256 pages (23 September, 1997) [Hits: 444]
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Wild Animals I Have Known by Kevin Bentley . List Price:£9.99
	A queer as Folk Style Diary of Sexual Escapades; In the late 1970s, there was a massive migration of young gay men to San Francisco. They left home in droves, travelling by train, plane or bus towards a life free from discrimination. Struggling to make ends meet, many worked in bookstores and restaurants, all the while taking advantage of the burgeoning scene of sexual hedonism. Wild Animals I Have Known is a frank, witty, and literate portrayal of the experiences of one such wide-eyed 22 year-old living in San Francisco at this time. First and foremost an account of Bentley's erotic exploits, it is also the diary of a bookish, terrified, exuberantly promiscuous and laughably romantic gay man's adventures in the pre-AIDS gay mecca. Boyfriends From Hell, men that got away, and tricks to remember are delightfully caught in cameo and sometimes skewered to hilarious effect. Click here to buy from Amazon.co.uk
Green Candy Press, Paperback - 280 pages (June, 2002) [Hits: 209]
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Wonder Bread and Ecstasy by Charles Isherwood. List Price:£8.99
	Video pornography has been a staple of gay male culture for decades, but there is little written about the people who perform or produce this entertainment. Charles Isherwood has written a modern tragedy about the life and death of porn star Joey Stefano. After a rapid climb to the top, Stefano died of an overdose at age 26. Isherwood is a good reporter who holds no illusions about the porn industry. Ecstasy and Wonder Bread is both a hard-hitting exposé of an industry that uses people up and then spits them out and a sympathetic portrait of a young man whose desire for attention and fame was equaled only by his inability to say no. Click here to buy from Amazon.co.uk
Paperback - 256 pages (12 December, 1996) [Hits: 488]
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Against the Law by Peter Wildeblood. List Price:£7.99
	In March 1954, Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu Case and was sentenced to 18 months. This autobiography provides testimony to the inhumanity of the treatment of homosexuals in Britain only a generation ago. Click here to buy from Amazon.co.uk
Paperback - 195 pages New Ed (5 October, 2000) [Hits: 479]
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