Jean Cocteau
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<i>Le Livre Blanc</i>, a "white paper" on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau's contemporary Maurice Sachs and was a
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t once decried as by the critics as obscene. It is now possible to issue it under Cocteau's name. The semi-autobiographical narrative describes a youth's love affairs with a succession of boys and men during the early years of this century. The young man's self-deceptive attempts to find fulfilment, first through women and then by way of the church, are movingly conveyed; the book ends with a strong plea for male homosexuality to be accepted without censure. The book is fully illustrated and includes many woodcuts by the author.
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