Stephens narrates his account of Roger Butler’s role in the gay rights movement before losing his sight – and their later life-changing friendship
When Christopher Stephens was a student at Oxford in …
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The blind man I nursed kept his bombshell past secret. It was only when he made me promise to tell his story after death that I understood the act of bravery that could have seen him locked up for life: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS ○
With movie stars including Raquel Welch and Robert Mitchum among his clientele, Roger Butler had no shortage of glamour in his work at a high-end property lettings agency.
A moment that changed me: I went to read to a blind man - and discovered his hidden gay heroism ○
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As a 21-year-old student, I embarked on one of the most intimate experiences I have ever shared with another person. The friendship was an insight into the underground that existed when homosexuality…
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