Cranleigh Barton, Queen Mother
Posted by | Posted on Apr 5, 2026, 2:10 PM
Cranleigh Barton was a discreetly homosexual New Zealand lawyer and artist. In 1915, a friend sent him the campest of letters.
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John Williams of Ohio
Posted by | Posted on Jul 6, 2025, 2:21 PM
John Williams arrived in New Zealand from America in the late nineteenth century, and spent many years in prison. He died while serving a life sentence for sodomy. What do we know of his life?
The Reviewer Problem
Posted by | Posted on Jun 29, 2025, 7:58 PM
MK Joseph's intemperate - we would now say homophobic - review of James Courage's pioneering gay novel 'A Way of Love' had a wider context. What was it?
