History & The Arts
A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws
...World War II. Falling foul of anti-gay laws But Thomas’s quiet homosexuality soon got him into severe trouble. By 1946 there was a significant, very discrete, gay community in Leicester, including prominent people in public life and the arts. Most of the time, gay men were ignored by the police, but at times “cottaging” – anonymous sex between two men – could be...