Against the Law Page #2

What's his appeal?

He's...confident...

..physical,

a bit...dim, sort of.

I suppose I always thought...

Go on.

I thought I'd meet a boy like him

and he would make me brave,

and in return...

..I would make him wise.

You're blushing.

All right, it's stupid, you know,

it's comradeship.

Plato wrote something along

those lines, do you know it?

Two men, very different strengths,

but when they come together...

..an army of such lovers could

conquer the world.

Bring him down to Beaulieu.

When did you last have a holiday?

Oh, God. Three, four years ago.

Bring him down to Beaulieu.

Hmm.

Just a small party...

God, you are such a...

Live a little.

Yes?

MUSIC PLAYS:

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Well, I think this party is

really rather...

Boring? Boring as f***?

Yes. That's about the size of it.

I thought the aristocracy knew how

to let its hair down.

Uh-uh. You thought wrong.

What happened to "be careful"?

No-one about, you daft ape.

# You took the part that once

was my heart

# So why not take all of me? #

Three weeks. I know.

# ..All of me

# Why not take all of me?

# Can't you see... #

You're blossoming, Mr Wildeblood.

# ..I'm no good without you?

# Take my lips

# I want to lose them... #

TRAIN RUMBLES PAS # ..Take my arms

# I'll never use them

# Your goodbye

# Left me with eyes that cry

# How can I

go on, dear, without you? #

My dearest, darling Eddie,

I love you so much.

# ..You took the best

Why not take the rest? #

There, I've said it.

# ..Baby, take all of me... #

In the '50s,

homosexuals, erm, were in...

were in a kind of secret world

of their own. It was, erm...

They were on another,

rather delightful planet, in a way.

It was fabulous, I was doing

whatever young people do,

I wanted to dance,

I wanted to have beautiful clothes,

I wanted to have lots of sex,

I wanted somebody to love me.

It was a world in which there

was no class difference at all and

that, I think, was one of the things

which made it very, very attractive.

Members of the upper classes

have always fancied

members of the lower classes.

I was never actually particularly

attracted to posh boys,

but I did sometimes meet them

if they looked right.

And...and so I did find

myself in the situation

of mixing with a much wider

range of social classes,

I think, than straight boys

of my background would have done.

There was this strong sense of

community within the gay world,

and that rendered us not impervious

but able to resist these awful...

this, how shall I say,

this constant barrage of propaganda,

of depiction of us as being evil.

THUNDER RUMBLES:

PHONE RINGS:

Wildeblood.

Peter, it's Edward.

Oh, hello, Edward.

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