Alas, New Brunswick still has a long way to go.
And although this extreme was never taken, it reflects how profoundly dangerous it was (and remains) to be gay in many countries and counties.
Photos of queer intimacy remain rare � more so in Len and Cub�s day, given that queer love was technically punishable by death in the British Empire. Len�s favoured subject was ∼ub� Coates known, for his wolf-like persona, a constant companion of Keith even into the First World War. For despite the quality of the text presented, perhaps in a rather dry academic tone, the real gift of this handsome volume is the photographs, many of them taken by Len Keith, who got hold of a Kodak in 1905 and took pictures of people and things around him. The popular contemporary notion of �pictures, or it didn�t happen� was the reality for much of queer history, and what makes this book and the story of its conception so profound.
