James Baldwin and Britain

Baldwin mentioned by Molly Parking in reference to homosexuality

Source: London Evening Standard

May 18, 1974 (page 9 of 24).

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Article by Parkin on being a ‘camp follower’.

Parkin mentions JB at one point when referring to the sexuality of a friend: ‘It was only when, through a mutual love of the Hollywood musical, I became a friend and subsequent confidante of a particularly tortured fellow student that I had any idea of what being male and homosexual meant. He gave me a book by James Baldwin to read called Giovanni’s Room’.