The Autobiography of a Schoolboy

I’m going to take a leaf out of the book of BLueRibbon, who has got me to read and appreciate his many fine writings by introducing them here. So, as an experiment at least, I’m going to do the same for Greek Love Through the Ages. I won’t do this for nearly every article, just those that would seem to have the widest appeal, so those with a serious taste for what it has to offer should still check out its “NEW!” page. One of Sick Rose’s many incisive sayings is that a truly successful man/boy love affair ends at the altar with the man as best man. This was literally the case with the one which Thomas Tomkins makes the centrepiece of his memoir, The Autobiography of a Schoolboy, the 15th and final chapter of which has just been posted. The son of an alcoholic doctor and a mother who cared only for her social pretensions, Thomas had to wait until he was twelve to find the love he longed for with a young Latin master at his prep school. The affair continued long after Thomas left the school, the scholastic mentorship culminating in Thomas getting a first at Cambridge. Allan, his lover, acted not only as best man at his wedding, but godfather to his son, and when he died of cancer (over which Thomas, left dry-eyed by his parents’ deaths, shed buckets of tears), he bequeathed him the house in which he now lives. Thomas says his story, running so counter to the dominant narrative, “had to be written.” I’d say it “has to be read” as a seriously valuable contribution to boy-love literature. www.amazon.com/dp/1481222112 (https site) The Autobiography of a Schoolboy [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst]