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Hugh Brennan Scott Symons (July 13, 1933 – February 23, 2009), known professionally as Scott Symons, was a Canadian writer.〔("His life was his art. Alas, it was not a masterpiece" ). ''The Globe and Mail'', February 27, 2009.〕 He was most noted for his novels ''Place d'Armes'' and ''Civic Square'', among the first works of LGBT literature ever published in Canada,〔W. H. New, ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. University of Toronto Press, 2002. ISBN 0802007619.〕 as well as a personal life that was often plagued by scandal and interpersonal conflict.〔 He was openly gay at a time when this was very difficult, publishing his first novel, ''Place d'Armes,'' which dealt directly with homosexuality, two years before gay sex was decriminalized in Canada. He was an avid diarist, and many of his observations and episodes from his life found their way into his novels.〔 His writing style was marked by experimental forms and structures, with one of his novels being published as handwritten pages packaged in a box, and by a blurring of the lines between fiction and non-fiction.〔 ==Early life== He was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of businessman and writer Harry L. Symons and the brother of academic Thomas Symons.〔 A rebellious teenager, his parents sent him to Trinity College School in Port Hope, where he took up gymnastics and established a lifelong friendship with journalist Charles Taylor.〔 He also first came to realize that he was gay, falling in love with a fellow student but repressing his feelings in sport.〔 Symons would later describe the experience as emotionally crippling, leaving him an "eternal thirteen; eternally the boy reaching out to touch but never being allowed to do so… except as Mommy and Authority permitted."〔Ian Young, "A Whiff of the Monster: Encounters with Scott Symons". ''Encounters with Authors''. Toronto: Sykes Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9695286-2-3.〕 One night while practicing in the gymnasium, he fell off the high bar and broke his back, and was immobilized in a body cast for several months.〔 After completing high school, he enrolled at the University of Toronto, where he earned a bachelor's degree in modern history as well as enlisting as a naval cadet and serving on the student government.〔 He subsequently pursued graduate studies at Cambridge University.〔 Still attempting to repress his sexuality, Symons married Judith Morrow, the granddaughter of a president of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, in 1958.〔Christopher Elson, "Introduction: Siting La Place" in Scott Symons, ''Combat Journal for Place d'Armes''. Dundurn Press, 2010. ISBN 9781770705296.〕 Taylor was his best man.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scott Symons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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