Because We're Queers by Simon Shepherd (Gay Men's Press £7.95) The title of this axe-grinding and almost ..
... critical biogra phy of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell is taken from Orton's own laconic comment when magistrates imposed short prison sentences on the pair for stealing and defacing library books. The playwright's characteristic hon esty and cleverness make one pause, for not a word is mentioned in court about matters sexual and one wonders if it was an expression of homosexual paranoia which ...