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The first in-depth exploration the "secret kingdom" of British gay life in the first three quarters of the 20th century.<p>The "secret kingdom", the vanished world of British gay life in the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. From the Edwardian period, overshadowed by the trials of Oscar Wilde, through two world wars and the witch-hunts of the 1950s, a gay sub-culture flourished, against the odds, in every major town and city in England.<p>Buggers Talk offers a richly-detailed tour of the homosexual's "twilight haunts" -- pubs, clubs and cottages, trolling grounds, costume balls and private parties -- and vividly documents the fads and fashions, the gossip, the language and the loves of the queens who took a giddy and defiant delight in bringing gaiety into the dreariest corners of British life.