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Highwayman’s 1750 confessions reveal ‘unusual’ ambivalence about gay sex – The Guardian
Rare pamphlet includes roistering criminal’s surprisingly enlightened attitude to the advances made to him by an innkeeper’s son
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Sat 13 Feb 2021 02.00 EST
An incredibly rare deathbed confession from an 18th-century highwayman, written just before he was hung in chains for robbing the Yarmouth Mail and detailing his enlightened response to a failed gay seduction, has been acquired by Horsham Museum.
The Life of Thomas Munn, alias, the Gentleman Brick-Maker, alias, Tom the Smuggler runs to 24 pages…
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