# @deadinkbooks on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DRNKzSOiBDv
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/37132618-deadinkbooks-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-18T17:25:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dead Ink Books (@deadinkbooks) — https://gondola.cc/deadinkbooks

## Caption

A radical novel upon initial publication in 1961, THE LEATHER BOYS is officially back in print as the second title in the Outsider Classics collection.

From THE TIMES 📰 review by Peter Parker:
"What distinguishes Freeman's novel, apart from its literary skill, is that it challenged the prevailing fantasy... that no working class man could possibly be homosexual unless corrupted by his social superiors... instead, Freeman touchingly and convincingly depicts the two young men suffering the same anxieties that assail any couple embarking on an affair. Spontaneous and deeply romantic,"

Featuring a brand-new introduction from academic and queer studies expert Kaye Mitchell, providing a full social context for the novel - published a full five years ahead of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act which finally decriminalised homosexual acts between adults in Britian.

The Leather Boys is out on the 20th November, available from your favourite bookshop!

#outsiderclassics #queerlit

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outsiderclassics, queerlit

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