An exhibition about writers of the 1930s was held at the National Portrait Gallery from 25 June to 7 November 1976. The writers included W H Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender. Besides photographs there were unpublished letters which illustrated each writer’s reactions to political and literary events and manuscript drafts of published and unfinished work. What he exhibition failed to acknowledge was the fact that Auden, Isherwood and Spender were gay and that their homosexuality was an integral part of some of their writings. Gay Liberationists from Brixton organised a picket of the exhibition to put the record straight!