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Book Title
Naked Tuck Shop-Growing Up Gay in the 1950s
Publication Name
The Naked Tuck Shop - Growing up gay in the 1950s
Title
The Naked Tuck Shop - Growing up gay in the 1950s
Author
Tim Hughes
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1782227121
EAN
9781782227120
ISBN
9781782227120
Publisher
Paragon Publishing, Rothersthorpe
Release Date
20/09/2019
Release Year
2019
Language
English
Item Height
0.2in
Item Length
8.3in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
4.7 Oz
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Lgbt / Gay
Number of Pages
104 Pages

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The Naked Tuck Shop is a unique record of a period long before 'gaiety' was legal in any form in the United Kingdom. This memoir of a 1950s grammar-school boy's navigation through his emerging gayness, lifts the lid on his discovery of a vast clandestine world - that stretched from members of parliament to long distance lorry drivers. A chance meeting with two local artists while 'cottaging' provided the springboard to a Soho demimonde that featured Muriel Belcher's Colony Room and a cast of characters that included Francis Bacon, Angus Wilson and Tom Driberg. While his friendship with Dudley, Bishop of Colchester, led to encounters with dodgy clerics and Margery Allingham, the crime writer queen. The author suggests that the 'cottage', long before later legal venues like gay pubs and discos arrived, was the only game in town for an underage provincial teenager. In a contemporary Britain starved of 'public conveniences' it is easy to forget their ubiquity in those times. The late Victorian 'spend a penny' brigade had decreed the building of these municipal marvels throughout the land, and fortunately for him the local worthy burghers had seen to it that Colchester was well endowed. Alongside his early adventures in 'queer society' Tim Hughes remembers with affection a group of talented school friends, and how some of them who were also friends of Dorothy, had their lives cut short by the arrival of the gay plague.

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Paragon Publishing, Rothersthorpe
ISBN-10
1782227121
ISBN-13
9781782227120
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Book Title
Naked Tuck Shop-Growing Up Gay in the 1950s
Author
Tim Hughes
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Lgbt / Gay
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
104 Pages

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8.3in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
4.7 Oz

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