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Contents:

• LONDON HAS A (GAY) WHOREHOE IN IT!
• GAY MEN LONDON, OM PERSECUTN TO PRI
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

LONDON HAS A (GAY) WHOREHOE IN IT!

Acrdg to the Metropolan Police, the last nvictns for nng a 'disorrly hoe were brought 1990 agast two men who ran a gay sna Streatham (they were imprisoned for three and six months rpectively) of the boys here are actors between jobs, but there are also office workers who are to the gay club scene a big way and who nnot fance this liftyle solely out of a regular wage. He do have is a very good atmosphere and I often go to 'Tra (a gay club) wh the boys after work on Saturday night.

Rints who live the area - once notor as a home of prostut and sex clubs - say Soho's WCs are still firmly on the map as gay cisg hot-spots and that puts people right off g them At Berwick Street Market, trars say the public toilets there still garner a “reputatn” for those seekg to share some public cency. As historil book ‘The Ss of Jack Sl’, about notor Victorian-era rent boy Dubl Jack, whose self-claratn as a ‘sodome’ shocked late 19th century London, gets ready to h the London stage the form of a brand new play, wrer Glenn Chandler reveals more about this sndalo slice of gay history…. He achieved that reputatn bee of five mut of fame on 15 January 1890 when he went to the wns box at the Old Bailey and admted beg a ‘sodome’, one of few words available to a gay man at the time.

GAY MEN LONDON, OM PERSECUTN TO PRI

Was he the first ‘gay activist’? Scholars of the era and of gay history have wrtled wh that nundm, even suggtg that ‘Jack Sl’ might not have existed, that the name was a psdonym, that the young man who later got up urt had read the book and adopted the name.

It was only days after the Irish referendum on gay marriage. Gay.

5Google Scholar; Aronson, Theo, Prce Eddy and the Homosexual Unrworld, 2nd ed. G., Namels Offenc: Homosexual Dire the Neteenth Century (London, 2003), 144–53Google Scholar.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

And London, the telegraph system, thanks to s msengers, served a unique role urban male homoerotic muni, an arrangement absent om Downey’s evince.

11 Houlbrook, Matt, “Soldier Hero and Rent Boys: Homosex, Masculi, and Brishns the Briga of Guards, 1900–1960, ” Journal of Brish Studi 42, no. 14 To avoid a lengthy historgraphic summary, what follows is a handful of the most fluential works on the history of Victorian Brish male homosexualy, wh an emphasis on more recent ntributns: Weeks, Jeffery, Sex, Polics and Society, and Between the Acts: Liv of Homosexual Men, 1885-1967 (London, 1990); Eve KGoogle Scholar. Sedgwick,, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley, 1990)Google Scholar; Mort, Frank, Dangero Sexuali: Medi-Moral Polics England sce 1830 (London, 1987)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Cocks, Namels Offenc; Cohen, Ed, Talk on the Wil Si: Toward a Genealogy of a Disurse on Male Sexuali (London, 1993)Google Scholar; Cook, Matt, London and the Culture of Homosexualy, 1885–1914 (Cambridge, 2003)Google Scholar; Brady, Sean, Masculy and Male Homosexualy Bra, 1861–1913 (New York, 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Upchurch, Charl, Before Wil: Sex between Men Bra’s Age of Reform (Berkeley, 2009)Google Scholar.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

33 Cook, London and the Culture of Homosexualy, troductn and chap.

See also Hdmarch-Watson, Katie, “Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy: Narrativ of Female Cross-Drsg Late-Victorian London, ” GLQ: A Journal of Lbian and Gay Studi 14, no. 1 and 2; for reflectns on this phenomenon relatn to Victorian masculi, see Brady, Masculy and Male Homosexualy Bra.

61 Brady, Masculy and Male Homosexualy Bra, 1–3, 89–90. "A large proportn are gay and out, but a lot of the [others] are married and tryg to ver up what they're dog. More than 70% of male rponnts the survey - the biggt of s kd Europe - also said they were unlikely to report crim to the Speed says many male sex workers do not take sexual asslts - cludg rape - believ there has been a "normalisatn of que extreme behavurs", wh many simply viewg this as "[par for] the urse" ptn, Fergal McCullough and Hayley Speed's outreach helps some of the most vulnerable sex workersThe hub of Manchter's male street work scene is beneath the cy's gay village, around Canal Street, on the nals that le the centre of the cy, where The Men's Room do two night's outreach a week.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

But urt rerds tell that Rykener drsed as a woman and went by the name Eleanor, raisg the qutn of whether Rykener was a gay man or a transgenr woman. 2 of 10Homosexual acts were ma punishable by ath the Buggery Act of 1533. In 1707 40 gay men were ptured at a club near the Stock Exchange.

3 of 10Dpe the dangers of disvery, gay men ntued to gather. Beg placed the pillory, though, opened a homosexual to the most btal public treatment.

5 of 10The homosexual panics of the 18th century slowly fad. No gay men were executed for sodomy after two men were hanged ont of Newgate Prison 1835. That changed after the nvictn of Osr Wil 1895 for “gross cency” and the public shamg of other homosexuals.