God love the poor bugger - ( young) people forget just how shit it must have been for people back then, in the VERY recent past ! With the pressures they faced simply for being gay.
It’s thankfully almost impossible to imagine that simply being gay might be a reason to consider killing your self these days, but there’s the poor Earl, his father died just 9 days previous and it’s believed he topped himself just because he was gay. How terribly sad - and yet in a strange way his death probably moved the 8th Earl to push through the legislation to decriminalise homosexuality and thank goodness for him and his efforts or (even) more people would I’m sure still be topping themselves to this day.
It’s a funny / strange old world in which we live.
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