August 5, 2017 | Sex & Society

A dead British lord was outed and some peopled are miffed

We've always believed that outing someone -- unless they have acted out against the LGBT community -- is wrong. It is up to each individual to decide how and if and when to share a part of themselves that they may have kept hidden for decades.

That said, we're not sure that outing someone posthumously is the same thing. After all, the guy is dead!

Last month, Britain's National Trust revealed that the former lord of Norfolk’s Felbrigg Hall, Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, was gay. Since he had died in 1969, no one thought it would be a big deal.

Well, it was for some.

The man's family was upset because they felt his privacy had been violated. They said he was a very private man, and only revealed his sexuality to his closest friends. Of course, that was at a time when being gay could have landed Ketton-Cremer in jail.

The family claimed that if he were alive today, he would be horrified by the Trust's decision.

Professor Richard Sandell was part of the team that looked into the lord's past. Sandell admitted that he had struggled with the thought of outing the man, but he felt doing so served a greater good.