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Sitting down in a series of interviews with 27 men aged between 74 and 95, David Gould discovered lives - now rapidly being lost to history - that were lived under the shadow of homophobic prejudice. Their stories reveal how these men made sense of their lives and desires, how they responded to social expectations around family and marriage, and found sex at a time when it was proscribed by law, condemned by society, and luridly sensationalised by the media. Many of them suffered terribly, but what also emerged are stories of resilience, sometimes joy, and the foundations of our contemporary communities.
David Gould
David Gould was born in Middlesex but moved to the Surrey countryside as a child. He now lives in East Grinstead, where he expects to end his days. At school, David's favourite subjects were English Language and History. On moving to East Grinstead, he compiled several books of old photographs of the town. His first (with the late Ronald Michell) was East Grinstead Then and Now, published in 1985. The former books have made considerable use of the photographs in the local museum's collection, to which he has unrestricted access as he has been for many years the voluntary Photographic Archivist.
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