Today (feb.27.23) at lunch I brought up Jeremy to one of my friends, beginning with "you'll NEVER guess who loved The Great Gatsby. Because he's not famous, he's a celebrity only to me. It's Jeremy Wolfenden, he's been dead 60 years," and she said, "Is that your gay British man?" and I said, "No, he's ANOTHER one." And then proceeded to retell the story of the Wolfenden Report and Jeremy Wolfenden (who is not like Light Yagami but Light Yagami is a lot like).
The research of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offenses and Prostitution lasted three years (John's Wikipedia page) confirms that to be the case. Lord John Wolfenden was the chairman of this committee, and so its 1957 report is nicknamed after him. Ahead of its time, the Report said that homosexuality is not a disease and recommended the legalization of homosexual activity for men over the age of 21 (the heterosexual age of consent in the UK was 16). Unfortunately, Jeremy died in 1965 before the recommendation went into effect, 10 years after the Report, in the Sexual Offenses Act 1967 (with other stipulations as well as the unequal consent age).
Jeremy Wolfenden was John Wolfenden's gayass son who was a SPY and DIED. He was "the cleverest boy in England" too, and pretty damn aromantic.
Jeremy Wolfenden references (first few same as my venn diagram post): Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada Some guy on a blog investigates his family tree and has a picture of him His Wikipedia page (I'm being complete here) Neal Ascherson "two Eton boy who tried hard not to do their best" (nominally a review of The Fatal Englishman) (The Independent) Philip French on progression of British views on homosexuality (the year the age of consent was equalized!) (The Guardian) Philip French "bunnymooning" (aromantic!!!) (on The Fatal Englishman for the London Review of Books -- this one was two VERY valuable comments from people who were NOT Jeremy's friend) random ancient webpage on him - has more personal stories, notetoself check out book as only source other than Wikipedia?? (this website cannot be actively archived but was twice in the past, recently. here are some other links from the creator, she's into BL now) review of The Fatal Englishman (Sebastian Faulks) with quotes by someone NOT associated with Jeremy who singles him out as the weak part of the book The Moscow Times excerpt of book "Dead Drop" by Jeremy Duns on the larger British/Soviet spying scandal - has some details on Jeremy from child of the family! and finally this is the book the fujoshi's page references FOUND A NEW ONE!! (new to me, it's '06, The Independent -- seems to be excerpts from VARIOUS books Phillip Knightley has written) - alledges that his marriage was simply to get away from Moscow? also says that it got "rocky" - abuse? I would assume Martina would have known going in Jeremy was homosexual, but maybe not... BRIEF mention of Jeremy mainly about the Report, insight into father (downloaded as link is pdf?)
Notably lines are repeated verbaitim in the non-primary sources, and there were additional webpages that appeared to simply copy Wikipedia very badly. I suspect it's a bit of a loop where people plagarized sources on Wikipedia and others plagerized Wikipedia.
moving my notes to a separate page here