Freddie Mills was a boxer. In 1950 Nicholson & Watson Ltd saw fit to publish his autobiography. This afternoon a copy found its way into the bookshop. Reproduced here are three of the photographs from that volume. First up - some 'African friends'.
Second up, some 'African beauties' with the Chief who hosted one of his fights.
Lastly, a not at all homoerotic photograph taken prior to one of his fights.
The long time association between homosexuality and boxing seems to be receding into the past. Time someone wrote a history?
ReplyDeleteMill's Wikipedia entry says "Following his death, several lurid theories sprang up: such as that Mills, married with children, had been arrested in a public toilet and charged with homosexual indecency". Lurid? Hardly. Unheard of by married men with kids? Certainly not. Common among boxers? Who knows.
Further research called for I feel...
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