I’m particularly interested about the timing of the renewed crackdown post-war.
It seems in many ways to have paralleled the “back to the kitchen, women” propaganda - now we don’t need you in the factories, and we don’t need every able-bodied man in the armed forces, we can go back to repressing & torturing the dissidents.
FYI YouTube has attached a 'Context' message under this video, linking to the Trevor Project, defining conversion therapy as 'aimed at changing an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity'. I sent them a message requesting they remove it.
The aversion therapies practiced on gay man were of course the basis of those applied to young Alex in Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and seen in the Kubrick film.
Burgess was not against Gay men. His magnum opus Earthly Powers begins with the line:
"It was my birthday and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali came to say the Archbishop had come to call"
Thank you for sharing this, Dennis m'duck xx
It's a brilliant piece mate, thank you for recording it
The audio is bloody awful though, so my more expensive but sometimes tricksy microphone has been revived
I just assumed you were using something to disguise your voice. Not a bad thing necessarily in this day and age.
No, that is my actual voice but I think I overprocessed it a tad and the mic isn't that great
Thanks Dennis, subscribed to Clive's channel after you promoted him the other day.
Really interesting & illuminating, thank you.
I’m particularly interested about the timing of the renewed crackdown post-war.
It seems in many ways to have paralleled the “back to the kitchen, women” propaganda - now we don’t need you in the factories, and we don’t need every able-bodied man in the armed forces, we can go back to repressing & torturing the dissidents.
FYI YouTube has attached a 'Context' message under this video, linking to the Trevor Project, defining conversion therapy as 'aimed at changing an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity'. I sent them a message requesting they remove it.
The aversion therapies practiced on gay man were of course the basis of those applied to young Alex in Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and seen in the Kubrick film.
Burgess was not against Gay men. His magnum opus Earthly Powers begins with the line:
"It was my birthday and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali came to say the Archbishop had come to call"
The whole book is narrated by this gentleman.