On January 24th in Gay History:
1965- Winston Churchill died at age 79. He had been Britain’s wartime minister whose courage, leadership and defiant rhetoric had fortified the English during their long struggle against Hitler’s Germany. In his biography of W. Somerset Maugham, Ted Morgan writes Maugham asked Churchill if it were true Churchill’s mother had claimed that the statesman had affairs with men in his youth,”not true” Chuchill replied,”but I once went to bed with a man(musical star Ivor Novello) to see what it was like.”
