Hugo Greenhalgh
The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life
The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life
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The Diaries of Mr. Lucas is a collection of diaries that detail the life of a civil servant who led a double life in London's underground gay scene in the 1960s and 1970s. The diaries provide a unique insight into the world of gay criminality before the partial decriminalization of gay sex in 1967.
Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
For nearly 60 years, George Lucas led a double life. By day, he was a mild-mannered civil servant, but by night, he was a fixture of London's vibrant underground gay scene, a twilight world of petty crime, louche pubs, and public toilets. He was also an obsessive diary writer.
Beginning in the early 1960s, Lucas had a passionate and fraught affair with a rent boy associate of the Kray twins known as Irish Peter, one of many men Lucas paid for sex. Together, Irish Peter and Lucas represent the spectrum of gay criminality prior to the partial decriminalization of gay sex in 1967.
When Lucas died in 2014, he left his diaries to journalist Hugo Greenhalgh. The Diaries of Mr. Lucas combines Lucas's deliciously indiscreet recollections of a life spent sometimes literally in the shadows with Greenhalgh's commentary—this is gay London like it's never been seen before.
Weight: 426g
Dimension: 223 x 145 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781838958121
Edition number: Main
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