Renowned for his sharp wit and flamboyant clothes, Crisp became a gay icon with his 1968 book The Naked Civil Servant, the story of a young homosexual man in the less tolerant Britain of the 1930s.

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Mr Polding moved to the Kemptown area - a part of the city famous for its gay community - about nine months ago where he felt more comfortable living as an openly homosexual man, his family said.

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Can the homosexual Kynaston play a man onstage?

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Graham Forbes, a handsome and shallow young man, secretly homosexual, has married Betty Greene, who is plain but rich.

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He said the reviews had sensationalised his account of Gandhi's friendship with a German man, who may have been homosexual.

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