Posted on 30/11/02
Portrait of the artist as a gay man
'We are after all queer & left & conshies [conscientious objectors] which is enough to put us, or make us put ourselves, outside the pale, apart from being artists as well." So wrote tenor Peter Pears to his lifetime companion Benjamin Britten in 1963 -- somewhat disingenuously, since by that time neither Britten's politics nor his homosexuality had prevented him from rising to the top of the British musical establishment.
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