Philip Hensher picks 10 key moments that opened the door to homosexual cultureIs Albertine really Alfred Agostinelli? Impossible to answer, and Proust, if the secrecy of his reported loves reflects an unusual real life existence, was undoubtedly susceptible too to the beauty of women. (The Duchesse de Guermantes, it is safe to say, was not a man "in real life".) But the greatest novel of the 20th century is written b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:11AM on April 8, 2016