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• 18TH CENTURY MOLLY HO – LONDON’S GAY SUBCULTURE
• WHY A GAY 19TH CENTURY LONDON BROTHEL OWNER HAD TO PRETEND TO BE A WOMAN TO AVOID POLICE PERSECUTNMADAME PARSONS RAN WHAT IS SAID TO BE THE BT BROTHEL MAYFAIR'S BURLGTON ARGETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYERI BUIST12:00, 9 OCT 2021BOOKMARKBURLGTON AR BY T.H SHEPHERD (IMAGE: T.H SHEPHERD)THE 12 - OUR EE NEWSLETTER WH ALL THE NEWS YOU NEEDMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE 12 - OUR EE NEWSLETTER WH ALL THE NEWS YOU NEEDINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND

18TH CENTURY MOLLY HO – LONDON’S GAY SUBCULTURE

18th Century Gay Subculture.

18th century London was home to a flourishg gay subculture wh Molly Ho at the centre of the social scene. ‘Molly’ was a slur ed for effemate, homosexual men and the term was adopted to scribe the clubs, taverns, ns, or ffee ho where they met up secret. In the 18th century, beg ught a homosexual act or the act of sodomy uld have meant time spent the pillory, penal service, transportatn, or even a ath sentence pendg on the se and the evince.

Although the Molly Ho uld be raid by police, they provid a safe place for homosexual men to socialise and openly discs or exprs their inti. There is a long tradn of homosexuals creatg a chosen fay wh whom they n be open and vulnerable about inty and sire. The play traced three centuri of homosexualy begng wh Mother Clap’s molly hoe to a 21st century home.

WHY A GAY 19TH CENTURY LONDON BROTHEL OWNER HAD TO PRETEND TO BE A WOMAN TO AVOID POLICE PERSECUTNMADAME PARSONS RAN WHAT IS SAID TO BE THE BT BROTHEL MAYFAIR'S BURLGTON ARGETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYERI BUIST12:00, 9 OCT 2021BOOKMARKBURLGTON AR BY T.H SHEPHERD (IMAGE: T.H SHEPHERD)THE 12 - OUR EE NEWSLETTER WH ALL THE NEWS YOU NEEDMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE 12 - OUR EE NEWSLETTER WH ALL THE NEWS YOU NEEDINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

The number of Molly Hoe raids monstrat there was a gay culture London the later 18th century and early 19th century. One of the ma agators phg for the arrts of homosexual men was the Society for the Reformatn of Manners who planted spi and rmant to help brg men to prosecutn and even to their ath.

The sheer number of raids and nvictns the 1720s do validate that there was a gay subculture London. The events and men we have found the 18th-century echo through the centuri om the unrground clubs of the 20s to the police raids on gay night clubs the 60s.

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….

THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND

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.

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. Homosexualy Victorian eraIn Victorian era homosexualy had s differenc and siari.