The Gay Unrworld of Late-Victorian London: Theo Aronson’s Book is a Landmark Study of Private Spac at the Time of Osr Wil |

Contents:

• BEFORE STRAIGHT AND GAY
• THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND

BEFORE STRAIGHT AND GAY

So if you want a picture of London’s gay life around the 1895 trial of Osr Wil, you mt scend to a shadowy unrworld of protected spac and passwords.

This is where Theo Aronson guis his landmark study Prce Eddy and the Homosexual Unrworld (Barn and Noble, 1994). Prce Albert Victor, De of Clarence, was the handsome, dashg elst son of Edward VII–the gay elst son.

Prce Eddy was no more ntrollable than his father had been at that age, and had he lived he would have been, lerally, the first openly gay Prce of Wal English history. Between low pay and the relaxed attus of workg class boys toward homosexualy, soldiers ma very good prostut, and the fact that both parti the transactn had somethg to lose helped keep a lid on blackmail.

THE SURPRISG TTH ABOUT THE LIV OF GAY MEN VICTORIAN ENGLAND

For an annual membership of nearly $10, 000 today’s money, the well-to-do gay man was given a dreamlike play space for his double life. ” Until time was lled at 6am, everyone paired off upstairs gay oblivn. Homosexualy Victorian eraIn Victorian era homosexualy had s differenc and siari.