Film-maker Terence Davies once told me how as a teenager – Catholic, in the closet, terrified – he saw Victim one night at a packed Liverpool cinema. About 20 minutes into the story a police detective lets slip the word “homosexual”. As Davies recalled of the audience, “you could have heard a pin drop”.
26 July 2017, The Tablet
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