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    The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History

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    ISBN: 9781781578292
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    AuthorSmith, Rachel
    Pub Date27/01/2022
    BindingHardback
    Pages288
    Publisher: ILEX - OCTOPUS PUBLISHING GROUP
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    An intimate and inspiring collection of letters revealing some of the greatest queer love stories in history

    "What this charming, moving and fascinating collection proves is that the [letter] form itself - a scribbled note, a declaration of love, an outpouring of passion, a bitter word - has always been with us." - Mark Gatiss

    A good love letter can speak across centuries, and reassure us that the agony and the ecstasy one might feel today have been shared by lovers long gone. In The Love That Dares, queer love speaks its name through a wonderful selection of surviving letters between lovers and friends, confidants and companions.

    Alongside the more famous names coexist beautifully written letters by lesser-known lovers. Together, they weave a narrative of queer love through the centuries, through the romantic, often funny, and always poignant words of those who lived it.

    Including letters written by:
    John Cage
    Audre Lorde
    Benjamin Britten
    Lorraine Hansberry
    Walt Whitman
    Vita Sackville-West
    Radclyffe Hall
    Allen Ginsberg