The life of David Maxwell Fyfe
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8 min readSep 30, 2015
Know thine enemy.
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, first Earl of Kilmuir, might seem an odd subject for today’s post. Not only wasn’t he queer, but he worked tirelessly against any attempt to decriminalise homosexuality, and may well have been behind the “pogrom” of the 1950s that deliberately targeted gay men for persecution. It’s easy to look back on his life with a sense of superiority, but his opposition to…
