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The Heart in Exile

The Heart in Exile

The Strange Case of the Peculiarly Prescient Pre-Gay Novel

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Feb 16, 2024
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It’s LGBTQQIA2S++ History Month. So, I thought I would share with you my hitherto hidden love for my favourite ‘gay’ novel. The Heart In Exile, published in the UK in 1953, by Rodney Garland – real name Adam Martin De Hegedus, a Hungarian émigré.

Though as the date and morose title, the use of a nom de plume – and my fondness for it – would suggest, it’s…

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