Talk:Hugh Walpole
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject LGBT studies, which tries to ensure comprehensive and factual coverage of all LGBT related issues on Wikipedia. For more information, or to get involved, visit the project page. |
| Stub | This article has been rated as Stub-Class. |
Doesn't the discussion of whether Evelyn Waugh was a homosexual belong in a background discussion, rather than in the main article?
Moved from article:
Evelyn Waugh who wasn't homosexual but twice married. Evelyn Waugh? He was married twice and scarcely merits inclusion with this lot.
Waugh may have married and fathered children but then that has never stopped anyone from conducting homosexual affairs. Waugh wrote about homosexuality and according to some biographers conducted affairs with men. Does it make him homosexual, not necessarily. Does it merit his inclusion with other authors what he spent time with? Absolutely.
- Calling it a "homosexual coterie" implies that all the people listed are homosexual. Waugh was not, by normal standards, a homosexual. It seems to me that, assuming Walpole himself was gay, we should simply say that he was gay, and then mention his literary coterie without describing their sexuality. john k 13:23, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- I wouldn't worry too much about excluding Waugh. In 1975, the authorized biography of Waugh, written by Christopher Sykes, included details about his romantic attachments to men during his college days. Waugh was particularly sensitive about these affairs because his older brother, Alec, had been disgraced and dismissed from college following a homosexual scandal. In fact, Evelyn Waugh was careful to destroy sections of his diaries referring to his dalliances, though enough remains to establish that in orientation at least he was bisexual.
- I understand this. It still seems like an awkward phrasing. At the time Waugh was a member of this coterie he was married, no? john k 16:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- Right, the line seems to be there merely to justify categorizing Walpole as gay. Maybe a better way to accomplish that is to note that when Walpole finally settled down it was with Harold Cheevers, a constable who had been revolver champion of the British Isles. They were together until the day Walpole died. Their relationship is well documented in many sources. --Kstern999 16:33, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
- I understand this. It still seems like an awkward phrasing. At the time Waugh was a member of this coterie he was married, no? john k 16:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- I wouldn't worry too much about excluding Waugh. In 1975, the authorized biography of Waugh, written by Christopher Sykes, included details about his romantic attachments to men during his college days. Waugh was particularly sensitive about these affairs because his older brother, Alec, had been disgraced and dismissed from college following a homosexual scandal. In fact, Evelyn Waugh was careful to destroy sections of his diaries referring to his dalliances, though enough remains to establish that in orientation at least he was bisexual.
