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H. Montgomery Hyde: Ulster Unionist MP, Gay Law Reform Campaigner and Prodigious Author
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ISBN10: 0953928799
ISBN13: 9780953928798
Publisher: Belfast Pr
Published: Jan 29 2018
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780953928798
Publisher: Belfast Pr
Published: Jan 29 2018
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
H. Montgomery Hyde died in 1989 by which time he had become history. Only a very few remembered him or his gay campaigning role let alone the fact he had been an Ulster Unionist MP throughout the 1950s. Thirty years later, he can hardly be conceptualised. Too many, at best, see him as an aberration for Belfast but he was a recognisable type of progressive yet traditional British politician.
No one else played as long or as effective a part in changing the views of people towards gays when only a handful put their head above the parapet. Harford as he was known to his friends, H. Montgomery Hyde to his readers, and Montgomery Hyde to the electors of North Belfast, led the battle in the House of Commons for decriminalisation of homosexuality. And he paid as great a price as any parliamentarian could for his courage - he lost his seat. Very much a child of the 1920s, he was dedicated to researching and writing about those two most prominent gay men of the 20th century - Oscar Wilde and Roger Casement, both Irish outlaws. None the less, he managed to publish another forty books on a wide range of subjects including perhaps his finest works The Rise of Castlereagh and The Other Love. A cheerful and good natured figure, Harford lived and loved well and is deserving, at the least, of this monograph outlining his struggles and achievements.
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