This collection of quotations by and about gay people is a celebration of the advances in LGBT rights in the UK over the last half-century and a demonstration of the battle against oppression and prejudice that led to them. From a diverse range of people across the world, funny ones are interspersed with extracts from revealing interviews and diary entries. A delightfully well presented and researched classy addition to anyone’s’ queer book-stack but then the Author bring a heft of class with him Christopher Tinker Editing Manager of the National Gallery and an introduction from Simon Callow all round lovvie extraordinaire.