27 MAY 2006, Page 32

Kissing men

From Oliver Mason

Sir: In ‘The Spectator’s Notes’ (20 May) Charles Moore writes, ‘Merely 30 years ago, films of men kissing would have been banned in most European countries....’ This is not quite right. The film Sunday, Bloody Sunday, directed by John Schlesinger, in which Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and Bob Elkin (Murray Head) kissed each other passionately, appeared in 1971. Admittedly, it was described as ‘groundbreaking’, but it wasn’t banned at any rate not in stuffy old Britain.

Oliver Mason

Tunbridge Wells, Kent