An entertaining guide to ‘how gay culture liberated the modern world’ shuns ideas of a closed shop, but then celebrates links that were often sexual
An old joke has it that in Vienna in the early 1930s, an elderly Jewish man was in the habit of going to a cafe every morning and reading notoriously antisemitic newspapers. “Why do you read these papers?” a fellow cafe-goer, also Jewish, one day accosted him. “Don’t you know they’re full of lies? According to them, we run the world!” “I know,” the newspaper reader replied. “It’s so consoling.”
Substitute an alleged homosexual conspiracy in the arts for an alleged Jewish one in politics, and you have, roughly speaking, the conceit of Gregory Woods’s new history, Homintern.
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