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C.S. Lewis's Gay Best Friend, Arthur
1Honors Program, George Fox University, Newberg, OR, USA.
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Arthur Greeves (1895-1966) was the world-famous Oxford scholar and author C.S. Lewis's (1898-1963) lifelong gay best friend. The article offers the first sustained reconstruction of Greeves's sexual self-understanding across six identifiable stages between 1917 and 1935. Drawing on Lewis's nearly three hundred published letters to Greeves, some of them censored but successfully restored, Greeves's three unpublished diaries, and related archival materials, the article argues that Greeves's homosexuality or same-sex attraction was not static but developed through discernible phases of disclosure, affirmation, psychoanalysis (conversion therapy), theological reframing, and attempted renunciation.
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