Posts Tagged: James Kirkup
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Famous Homosexual Is Dead

James Kirkup is dead. Who? Well! "In June 1976 he had a 66-line poem, The Love that Dares to Speak Its Name, published in Gay News. It described the homosexual fantasies of a Roman centurion as he contemplates the body of Christ on the Cross, and implicitly attributed homosexual acts to Jesus. This led to a private prosecution of the newspaper by the decency defender Mary Whitehouse for blasphemous libel." What can we say, but: good job, fuck yeah, girlfriend! Also?