Alan Bray
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Alan Bray was a British
United Kingdom
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 historian
Historian
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 and gay rights activist. He was born on 13 October 1948 and died on 25 November 2001. He was a Roman Catholic and had a particular interest in Christian
Christian
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 attitudes to homosexuality
Homosexuality
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A series of Alan Bray Memorial Lectures have been instituted in his memory. British historians Michael Hunter
Michael Hunter (historian)
Michael Cyril William Hunter is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, specializing in the history of science in seventeenth-century England, particularly the work of Robert Boyle...

, Miri Rubin
Miri Rubin
Miri Rubin is a medieval historian who is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cambridge, where she gained her doctorate....

, and Laura Gowing have co-edited the book Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800 (Palgrave Macmillan
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, 2005), which is a collection of essays inspired by Bray's idea of finding some universal component of homosexaulity within the experiences of intimacy and friendship without "locating a discourse that identifies persons as homosexual" .

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