Dr Tim Stanley wrote an article about Fanny & Stella recently in The Telegraph On April 28, 1870, two young gentlemen turned up to the Strand Theatre, London in evening frocks. Ernest Boulton went by the name of Stella and Frederick Park liked to be called Fanny. The behaviour in their box was outlandish and outrageous, …
Category Archive: gay history
May 06
Fanny And Stella, Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, May 4 2013 by Duncan Hall
Following my talk at the Brighton Festival recently, Duncan Hall gave me a glowing review in The Argus. Here it is. If Neil McKenna’s talk had a message it was that gay history is all around, if people are only willing to look. His book Fanny And Stella tells of the scandalous early 1870s …
Apr 15
Interview with Future Radio and Nick Cordingly
I was interviewed recently on the Pride Live Show by Nick Cordingly of Future Radio about Fanny & Stella. You can listen to a recording here. We talk about how I came to write the book, cross dressing and gay history.
