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by James Gardiner (Author) "...[The Turkish Baths at Jermyn Street] represented a twilight arena for elderly men who came to sweat poisons from their systems and youths who came..." (more)

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Serpent's Tail; New edition edition (1 Jun 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1852425946
ISBN-13: 978-1852425944
Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 19.6 x 1.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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More than 600 pictures ? portraits and pornography, postcards and cuttings and snapshots from private albums ? go to make up one man's personal and highly idiosyncratic view of gay history since the invention of the camera. Gay people, their friends, lovers, idols and enemies in all their glory, divas, bodybuilders and drag queens, heroes and villains, from Marie Lloyd to Madonna, Sandow to Schwarzenegger, Boulton to Savage, Labouchere to Mary Whitehouse. And alongside the famous and infamous, are the images of ?ordinary? gay men taken at moments that only friends and lovers would bother to record.

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James Gardiner works as a researcher, author and film stylist specialising in popular entertainment and the gay life which was, and is, so often connected with it. He deals in pictorial ephemera relating to these subjects, and has built up a unique photo-archive of old picture postcards from the period.

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"...[The Turkish Baths at Jermyn Street] represented a twilight arena for elderly men who came to sweat poisons from their systems and youths who came to strike beguiling poses in Turkish towels... although they were closely overseen by attendants, they provided a discreet place to inspect a young man before offering a cup of tea at Lyons." (AJ Langguth) Read the first page

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4.0 out of 5 stars Uncovers decades of gay lives and loves, 24 Jul 2005

By	Mr. R. J. MacRae "jayhawk2000" (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A lovely book, part history lesson and part scrapbook, which gathers together photos and clippings from 150 years of gay life. Some photos are only of anonymous men in intimate portraits, some are muscle mag fodder, whilst others are prime examples of Victorian erotica. As you finger through you see gay men like Alan Turing, Ivor Novello, Kenneth Williams, Anthony Perkins and Divine. Sprinkled in are icons like Judy Garland, Princess Di and Bette Davis though there is a definite British bias to the material. More often than not each photo only has the briefest identifying caption, though there are longer passages about landmark legal cases, plays and movies plus examples of polari. It is thorough (Quentin Crisp, Tom of Finland, Dirk Bogarde and even Soldiers in Skirts all make appearances) and will expose you to some new faces, but ultimately it's little more than a scrapbook. Lots of pretty pictures and the occasional caption means it's lovely to look at, but to really learn anything about the people featured here you'll have to do your research elsewhere.

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