ABSTRACT
As it happens both the men who tell their life stories in this chapter were brought up as Catholics, though I don’t read any significance into that. John is English and was brought up by educated middle-class parents in an affluent London suburb. Anthony is Irish and his father was a road sweeper. Their life experiences also differed sharply in relation to their sexuality, since John did not become fully aware and accepting of his gayness until he was in his early twenties whereas Anthony was aware of being gay from about 4 years old. Both experienced being the only gay man in otherwise completely heterosexual men’s groups. Both saw men’s anti-sexism as integrally linked with both feminism and gay liberation.
