‘ Gay Century: Vol 2’ is a vivid portrait of gay life in recent history, using a series of seven playlets which are dramatic, angry, funny and heartbreaking in turn.
A camp old man collides with Gay Liberation and gets a new lease of life; a gay bandsman can’t grieve for his lover killed in an IRA bomb – until he’s thrown out of the army for being gay; a gay man and a lesbian decide to have a baby, but their partners plot to stop it; the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub devastates not only the victims but their friends. Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde – repression and liberation – battle for supremacy; there can only be one victor.
Peter Scott-Presland has been a cabaret performer, songwriter, playwright, journalist and historian for nearly fifty years. Three of his musicals have been nominated for awards, and the brewery Taylor Walker tried unsuccessfully to ban his play, ‘Leather’. He is halfway through writing a three-volume history of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, ‘Amiable Warriors’. He is the recipient of the 2021 International Lesbian and Gay Cultural Network Award.