Against The Law
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom I love' Peter Wildeblood
In March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu case. Wildeblood was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, along with Lord Montagu and Major Michael Pitt-Rivers. The other two men were set free after turning Queen's Evidence.
Against the Law tells the story of Wildeblood's childhood and schooldays, his war service, his career as a journalist, his arrest, trial and imprisonment, and finally his return to freedom. In its honesty and restraint it is eloquent testimony to the inhumanity of the treatment of gay men in Britain within living memory.
Customer Reviews
An interesting insight
I was 16 in 1967 when the first reform of the law that persecuted homosexuals was passed. I have watched the changes that occurred in the years since. To look back to the 1950’s and relive the awful and wasteful persecution is instructive. Some in our society want to go back to those good old days. We must resist and fight these tendencies. A very good read. Now go to YouTube and watch the 1961 film Victim.