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I suppose not, but then- would he have mentioned it? Or at least without using euphamism (like his 'traditional worries' 'barclays' and that long way (can't spell it) he had for a couple of pages in one of the earlier years of saying 'homosexuality')

At the end of the day I think that the film was designed to be just that- a film, not a true-to-every-detail biography, I mean- the quotes from his diaries we have no proof he ever said them outside of his diaries to anyone but there is already a documentary based on the diaries, also by the BBC. I feel...whether he did or not go 'cruise' with Orton (though if you consider cruising to be chiefly perusing the trade I have a feeling the excursions to foreign parts provided plenty of that) it is, in this context, chiefly a plot device used to show us the contrast between the two friends and emphasisise the discomfort with his own skin that characterised William's life.