Peter Parker is a queer British biographer, historian, journalist and editor with quite a prolific output that includes the definitive biography of Christopher Isherwood. He has just completed a 6 year project of SOME MEN IN LONDON a two volume anthology of the history of the reality of gay men in London from 1939 right up to 1967.. Parker’s book makes for such compelling reading as its not just about the celebrity and aristocratic gay men who lived at a time when homosexuality was illegal and been exposed as gay could ruin and even end lives . but also those working class men who had survived two World Wars .
Prior to an Event sponsored by Gays The Word at The BRITISH LIBRARY with writer Neil Bartlett , Parker sat down with QUEERGURU Editor to discuss, amongst other things, the importance of sharing the LGBTQ+ community’s history with millennials and other gay men who have never personally lived in a period when homosexuality was still illegal.
Our history is what defines us and helps share who we are and who we can/will be.
Labels: 2024, interview, London, Neil Bartlett, Peter Parker, queer history, Some Men in London
