![]() ![]() Worse still, this system destroyed British Intelligence during the 20th Century Cold War. and expressed their class hatred by devoting much time and effort to apprehending patrician "cottagers" in public lavatories and raiding gay clubs. Working-class people (reared in a heterosexual environment) despised effeminate upper-class "poofs". In addition, the rigid British social class system was thereby reinforced. The leading colonial administrator, Lord Lugard, praised the "public school spirit" as essential for British Imperialism. The idea was to prepare them all for a Spartan life, without female company, as obedient administrators of the British Empire. ![]() Prefects were permitted to enforce their authority by flogging pupils in their "House" ie dormitory. New boys had to become aptly called "fags" to the prefects (older boys) who gave them female names to symbolise their sexual role as catamites. Major-General Orde Wingate (Charterhouse).Įach was homosexualized while boarding at a fee-paying, so-called "public school", a unique institution of English origin, where pubescent upper-class boys were subjected to five years of boarding, bullying, beating and buggery. Sir Harold Nicolson: diarist, (Wellington College)īrian Sewell: art critic, (Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School)Īlan Turing: code-breaker (Sherborne School) Somerset Maugham: author (King's School, Canterbury) Selwyn Lloyd, Chancellor of the Exchequer (Fettes) Sir Alec Guinness (bisexual - Fettes College)Ĭhristopher Isherwood (Repton School and Corpus Christi, Cambridge) Jimmy Edwards: actor/comedian (King's College School, Wimbledon)Ģnd Viscount Esher: Permanent Secretary Office of Works (Eton) There follows a list of famous British homosexuals and bisexuals of this era (some non-practising), with the schools at which they were educated in parenthesis.Īleister Crowley: author (Malvern and Tonbridge) ![]()
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