Naked Civil Servant

Queer Sex, Catholicism and Conformism in the Post-War London Diaries of George Lucas

Bibliographic Data

ID7798668
AuthorsDominic Janes (0000-0003-3751-5326, Keele University [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume96
Pages25-45
Publication date2023-12-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Workshop Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/hwj/dbad014
OpenAlexW4387478156
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

The minutely documented diaries of an ‘everyman’ such as George Lucas enable us to view the complex pleasures and challenging realities of the post-war queer quotidian in remarkable detail. A sample of the years after 1957, when Lucas was aged in his thirties, suggests that more attention needs to be paid to age-differential relationships and to the problematic aspects of the sexual idolization of young men. Lucas’s respectably boring career and Catholic faith can, however, be understood as having provided the stability on which his emotional survival depended, helping us to view other such unglamorous queer lives with greater empathy

Art history · Civil servant · Empathy · Faith · George (robot) · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Theology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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