Simon Callow: my life, lived gaily

From the Lavender Scare to equal marriage, British attitudes to homosexuality have been transformed, says actor Simon Callow“We that are young,” says the Duke of Albany at the end of King Lear, “shall never see so much, nor live so long.” But sometimes this sense that history is what happened to our predecessors disappears, and we are aware that we are in the living current of history, that vast developments are taking place, utterly changing our very sense of who we are.