Glamour Boys were a group of homosexual British Members of Parliament in the 1930s who were among the earliest to warn about Hitler and the dangers of Appeasement of Nazi Germany.
[1] Neville Chamberlain derisively branded the group "glamour boys", presumably an insinuation of their sexuality in a Britain in which homosexual practice was illegal.
[1] Those listed below all lost their lives serving in the ensuing Second World War: Others associated with the group include Robert Boothby, Harold Nicolson, Harry Crookshank, Ronald Tree, and Jim Thomas.
The treatment of Jews and the assassination of homosexuals in Hitler’s purge of political opponents in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934 gave them insights that many in Britain were keen on ignoring.
[2] Without these parliamentary rebels sounding the alarm as early as 1932 and speaking and voting against Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement, says author Chris Bryant, Britain “would never have gone to war with Hitler, Churchill would never have become prime minister and Nazism would never have been defeated”.