#christopher isherwood

[womansfilm]

Christopher Isherwood's diaries, September 8, 1960

[soracities]

Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man [ID'd]

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David Hockney (British, 1937), Christopher Isherwood's House, Santa Monica, 1966. Ink on paper.

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MATT SMITH and DOUGLAS BOOTH Christopher and His Kind (2011) dir. Geoffrey Sax

[mrmousetolliver]

Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood (1968) painted by David Hockney

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Jennifer Lynch The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer / Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig / James Baldwin Giovanni's Room / @filmnoirsbian / Warsan Shire Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth / Fatimah Asghar How'd Your Parents Die Again? / Christopher Isherwood A Single Man / Lorde Buzzcut Season

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

British gay/bi male writers and their social circles

As a great admirer of gay literature, the social circles of gay and bisexual male writers is something that piques my interest. Due to the dangerousness of the matter in the past and also because it revolves around a relatively small niche, it seems that there was high level familiarity between these figures. The United Kingdom, a country whose literary input has abundant homoerotic tones, is a very adequate setting to analyze such a configuration.

I've been building a graph on this subject for some time, and now it seems mature enough for me to post it. It's a diagram based on friendship connections — deep or superficial —, although romantic and family-related connections are also included. Just a mutual recognition of existence isn't enough to justify a connection (otherwise most of them would be linked to Wilde!), and rivalries were not considered too. All the writers included were born during the Victorian and Edwardian eras (1837-1910), where this interconnectivity seemed particularly strong.

This is just an early version, as I imagine there is still a considerable amount of information that I missed. Therefore, I'm very open to suggestions and comments on it!

(Three Irishmen were also included in the diagram: Stoker, Wilde and Reid)

[carloskaplan]

W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender e Christopher Isherwood de vacacións no Mar do Norte (1931)

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Christopher Isherwood (ca. 1935), photo by George Platt Llynes

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George Platt Lynes (American, 1907–1955), Christopher Isherwood, c.1935

[guy60660]

Christopher Isherwood | Peter Schlesinger

[taolucidity]

Christopher & His Kind - Matt Smith & Douglas Booth for Jason

[davidhudson]

Christopher Isherwood, August 26, 1904 – January 4, 1986.

[theprivatecapote]

Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood

[mrmousetolliver]

Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood in front of their portrait painted by David Hockney. (c.1970's) photographed by Calvin Brodie. Bachardy and Isherwood met in 1952 on a beach in Santa Monica. Bachardy was 18 years old and Isherwood was 48. They spent their first night together on February 14th, 1953. They remained a couple for 33 years until Isherwoods passing in 1986. The book The Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy  chronicles their relationship between the years of 1960-1970. There is also a documentary on their relationship, Chris and Don: A Love Story.

Don Bachardy still lives in the house he shared with Isherwood in Santa Monica. He is a painter with works in numerous museums. He paints for gallery shows and private commissions.

[typewriter-worries]

what seems like forever ago, @geryone so kindly tagged me and asked me to share nine book recommendations. after combing through some of my recent reads, here are some of my favorites:

My short little summaries and thoughts are listed under the cut:

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room is about a young man in David and his summer romance with another young man named Giovanni. Through the lens of love and heartbreak, David goes through a journey of identity.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - We follow our narrator, for now we can call him Joe, as he begins a very unconventional friendship with a man named Tyler. Men fight, they also bite and many a problems arise.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini- Historical fiction novel that is set agains the backdrop of many events from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy to the rise of the Taliban regime. I don't think I've cried harder reading a book so that's my own weird way of saying I can't recommend it enough.

For One More Day by Mitch Albom- Little read with a lot of heart. Fictional baseball player has the chance to spend one more day with his late mother, who he misses more than he ever thought he would. Another book that kept me crying into the middle of the night.

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio - I feel like if you like dark academia; this is an essential. A group of Shakespearean acting students at the fictional Dellecher Shakespeare conservatory get wrapped in a murder and it's an ongoing case of whodunit.

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood - A delicate look into the mundane crafted through the lens of grief, loss and heartache. We follow the life of George, a middle-aged gay man mourning the loss of his partner. Like Giovanni's Room, I think it's a staple of queer literature.

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy - A heartbreaking memoir that's sprinkled with the well timed moment of comedy. We learn about Jennette McCurdy's tumultuous relationship with acting, the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and her own way of working towards healing.

Promises of Gold by José Olivarez - If prose isn't your thing; this might be! Promises of Gold is a poetry collection in which Olivarez family, identity, love and quarantine. One of my personal favorites is Regret or My Dad Says Love

A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck - A story about first love that in ends heartbreak in more ways that one. It's first person and it's YA, two things I normally never read, but it's just so so good. Forget crying into the middle of the night, this had me crying well into morning

no pressure tagging: @firstfullmoon and @soracities if you have anything you want to recommend <3