The Heart in Exile
The Strange Case of the Peculiarly Prescient Pre-Gay Novel
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…