07/07/2023
The far right wing newspaper the Daily Telegraph, which over the years has been fixated in its opposition to homosexuality and more recently, transgender people, has been told by some LGBTQIA twitter commentators to mind its own business and quit hijacking queer literature for what has been described as its "hate filled agenda". The paper, which in 1988 bizarrely gave column inches to the far right myth that there is an international homosexual conspiracy, attacked contemporary academics who had warned that some of the writings of the early twentieth century writer Virginia Woolf could be triggering for modern readers. But as many LGBTQIA+ literature fans noted, Woolf would have been the first to reflect on her own work in this way. In addition, Virginia Woolf was a bisexual hero who enjoyed relationships with men and women throughout her life, and was a member of circles such as the Bloomsbury Group and close to Rupert Brooke's neo-pagans, both of which pursued interests in socialism, vegetarianism, sexual liberty and nudity among others. In other words, Woolf was a staunch opponent of the politics of the Daily Telegraph.
