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Angus Stewart
Angus John Mackintosh Stewart (22 November 1936 – 14 July 1998) was a British writer, best known for his novel Sandel (1968, reissued 2013).[1] Sometimes considered a gay classic,[2][3] the novel is set in the pseudonymous St. Cecilia's College, Oxford, and revolves around the unorthodox love between a 19-year-old undergraduate, David Rogers, and a 13-year-old choir boy, Antony Sandel. The novel was well-received at the relatively liberal time of its publication, and appears to have been based on real events recounted by Stewart.
Angus Stewart also wrote Tangier: A Writer's Notebook, published in London in 1977 (reissued in 2016).[4] The book is a memoir of his time (and relationships with boys) in the Moroccan city named Tangier. As explained in the first chapter, Stewart spent between four and nine months of every year in Tangier, for thirteen years from his visit in 1961. Since he also says in the last chapter that he typed up his notes in the winter of 1974-5, suggesting that he finished the manuscript in 1974.
The website Greek Love states that:
Though Stewart was also attracted to females and mentions in Tangier having been briefly married, it is clear from both "Pederast", an autobiographical sketch he wrote when he was twenty-four, and from the testimony of those who knew him, that he was primarily boysexual. However, he was writing in his real name and in the lifetimes of his parents (of whom his father was a much better-known writer), so it is hardly surprising that he is reticent about describing the sexual dimension of his relationships with the boys he loved. He does, however, give “guilt-free Mediterranean sex” as a compelling reason for living in Tangier, and it seems safest to presume that his close relationships with boys were sexual even when he does not say so.
The website also claims that Angus Stewart wrote the essay "Pederast" in 1961, an autobiographical sketch of himself as a lover of boys. Stewart wrote pseudonymously as "John Davis", contributing the piece as Chapter 6 (pp. 78-95) of Underdogs: Eighteen Victims of Society, edited and introduced by Philip Toynbee (London, 1961) who had solicited "underdog confessions" in a letter to some newspapers.
Angus Stewart had considerable influence on the renown first-wave MAP activist and PIE chairperson Tom O'Carroll, who opened O'Carroll up "to this brave new world of possibilities" where "where adult-child sexual intimacy was/is considered normal," after O'Carroll met the writer "as a "fan" at the writer's home in Oxfordshire, England, after reading Sandel."[5]
External links
- Discovering Angus Stewart (1936 - 1998) - more about his life and boy love (archived from williamapercy.com)
- Alexei Delaine's email regarding Walt Kauffmann's Discovering Angus Stewart (1936 – 1998)
- Review of Sandel (1968) - Greek Love Website.
- 'Pederasts,' by Angus Stewart (1961) - NewgonWiki Backup.
See also
References
- ↑ Sandel (1968) - Annas Archive PDF. 2013 Republication - Amazon Link.
- ↑ On both sides of the Atlantic, Sandel became formative reading for a generation of boys growing up in the 1970s who knew their feelings fell outside the heterosexual male stereotype, and it remains a gay cult novel today. - From the 2013 reissue's book description.
- ↑ Discovering Angus Stewart (1936 - 1998) - more about his life and boy love (archived from williamapercy.com)
- ↑ Tangier: A Writer's Notebook - Amazon link.
- ↑ Tom O'Carroll self-written biography. (William Percy Wiki).