Angus Stewart

Angus John Mackintosh Stewart (22 November 1936 – 14 July 1998) was a British writer, best known for his novel Sandel (1968). Set in the pseudonymous St. Cecilia's College, Oxford, the book 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, sometimes considered a gay classic, and appears to have been based on real events recounted by Stewart. Notably, Angus Stewart and Sandel 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.

Angus Stewart also wrote Tangier: A Writer's Notebook, published in London in 1977, 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, he evidently finished the manuscript in 1974.

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.

According to the website Greek Love, 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.

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.

See also

• Will Durant
• Mark Twain
• Horatio Alger
• Oscar Wilde
• Lord Alfred Douglas
• Andre Gide
• Lord Byron
• Charles Dodgson
• Norman Douglas
• Thomas Mann
• J.M. Barrie
• John Ruskin
• Roger Peyrefitte
• Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen