His voice first attracted my attention, his countenance fixed it, and his manners attached me to him for ever…I certainly love him more than any human being… Text: Lord Byron writing to Elizabeth Bridget Pigot about his boyfriend, John Eddleston, 5th July 1807 Image: Unknown
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography
Tagged: gay, John Eddleston, letters, Lord Byron
A light-bulb memory of a moment which revealed the real me to others — and to myself. Rummaging through a box of books in the garage one day when I was 12 years old, I stumbled across a copy of the paperback edition of ‘Weep No More, My Lady,’* a biography of Judy Garland. Several […]
Categories: for the life of me,gay,memoirs
Tagged: coming out, gay, Judy Garland, Kenneth Hill, memoir, Weep No More My Lady
