Colin Spencer

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Colin Spencer


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London, The United Kingdom
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Genre
Fiction, Nonfiction, Gay and Lesbian



Author biography:

Colin Spencer was born in London in 1933 and attended Brighton Grammar School and Brighton Art College. From an early age, he was interested in both art and writing and had his first stories published in The London Magazine and Encounter when he was 22.

Spencer’s first novel, An Absurd Affair, was published in 1961, but it was with his second, Anarchists in Love (1963), the first in the four-volume Generation sequence, that he began to garner widespread critical acclaim. Seven more novels followed between 1966 and 1978, including Poppy, Mandragora and the New Sex (1966), Asylum (1966), and Panic (1971), books that one critic has said ‘revel in the eccentric, the bizarre, and the grotesque’.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 469 ratings · 59 reviews · 60 distinct works • Similar authors
The Heretic's Feast: A Hist...
3.76 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1994 — 19 editions
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British Food: An Extraordin...
3.59 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2002
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Homosexuality in History
3.86 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions
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The Gay Kama Sutra
3.74 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
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The Vegetable Book: A Detai...
3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions
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Anarchists in Love
3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1963 — 4 editions
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Which of us two?: The story...
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions
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Backing Into Light: My Fath...
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The Tyranny of Love
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1967 — 12 editions
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The Adventurous Vegetarian:...
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“Adult males in modern society who feel fulfilled in giving concern and tuition to boys and youths are portrayed as being interested only in boys' bodies (though this may be a small part of the attraction) and are spurned and traduced as sexual monsters. I believe we reap the harvest of ours hysterical and homophobia today in juvenile crime, drug use and delinquency. Consider the ethical training which boys and youths gained through shudo in Japan or in the system in Classical Greece, the tuition in manners, customs and humanity, the degree of civilised values imparted to them, the ideas of loyalty, honour and truthfulness; this highly personalised education with love and sensuality at its centre must be far more effective than any other. We in the West are bigoted fools to dismiss it with such horror.”
― Colin Spencer
tags: gay, homophobia, homosexuality, sexuality
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― Colin Spencer, Vegetarianism: A History
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