2/6/2024 0 Comments Old gay men storiesWhen Ziggy moved in (he’d been kicked out by his parents), I was no longer the youngest. Terry collected the rent and paid it to the landlord, Mr Patel, whom I never met once in my three years living there. ‘Bring a lot of bottle,’ it reads.Īs a young gay man in my teens, I felt protected by this place. It was a period of identity experimentation radical drag, make-up, drugs, GLF, protest and parties. Life at Radclyffe Hall was at times exciting and at others chaotic. He was moving to Amsterdam, where he still lives today. He had also lived at Radclyffe Hall since the outset and planted the cherry tree by the front gate. He was there at the beginning in 1972, and at the end. Terry was the oldest, with long dark, crinkly hair and black-rimmed glasses. I was 18 years old and the youngest by a few years. There were five or six of us – all gay men. By that time it had been a gay communal household for about four years. In the spring of ’76 I moved into a large communal house known as Radclyffe Hall at no.
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