Editing Lindsay Anderson (section)

== Personal life ==
[[Gavin Lambert]]'s memoir, ''Mainly About Lindsay Anderson'', wrote that Anderson was [[homosexuality|homosexual]] and repressed his orientation, which was seen as a betrayal by his other friends.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/lindsay-anderson-let-me-tell-you-about-lindsay-9247621.html Lindsay Anderson: Let me tell you about Lindsay] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819202403/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/lindsay-anderson-let-me-tell-you-about-lindsay-9247621.html |date=19 August 2020 }} ''The Independent'', 21 February 2002. Retrieved on 1 January 2017.</ref> In November 2006 [[Malcolm McDowell]] told ''[[The Independent]]'' that he believed Anderson was gay, and said:
{{quote|I know that he was in love with [[Richard Harris]] the star of Anderson's first feature, ''This Sporting Life''. I am sure that it was the same with me and [[Albert Finney]] and the rest. It wasn't a physical thing. But I suppose he always fell in love with his leading men. He would always pick someone who was unattainable because he was [[heterosexual]].<ref>Geoffrey Macnab [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/malcolm-mcdowell-lindsay-anderson-and-me-424385.html "Malcolm McDowell: Lindsay Anderson and me"], ''The Independent'', 15 November 2006. Retrieved 11 May 2009. For Anderson's feelings about Richard Harris at the time ''This Sporting Life'' was in production during 1962, see Paul Sutton (ed) ''The Diaries: Lindsay Anderson'', 2004, London: Methuen, Chapter 3, especially p77-80.</ref>}}