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GAY HISTORY: THE CLEVELAND STREET SNDAL
The Cleveland Street sndal occurred 1889, when a homosexual male brothel Cleveland Street, Fzrovia, London, was disvered by police. The sndal fuelled the attu that male homosexualy was an aristocratic vice that rpted lower-class youths. Such perceptns were still prevalent 1895 when the Marqus of Queensberry acced Osr Wil of beg an active homosexual.
The Act ma all homosexual acts between men, as well as procurement or attempted procurement of such acts, punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment wh or whout hard labour. [31] The fal fence wns, John Sl, was a male prostute who had earlier been volved a homosexual sndal at Dubl Castle, and featured a clanstely published erotic novel The Ss of the Ci of the Pla which was st as his tobgraphy.
[35] However, another has alleged Eton was a well-known figure the homosexual unrworld, and was extorted so often by the notor blackmailer Robert Clifford, that Osr Wil had quipped Clifford served the Victoria Cross for his tenacy. Henry Labouchère, a Member of Parliament om the Radil wg of the Liberal Party, was stnchly agast homosexualy and had mpaigned succsfully to add the “gross cency” amendment (known as the “Labouchère Amendment”) to the Crimal Law Amendment Act 1885. Neverthels, newspaper verage rerced negative attus about male homosexualy as an aristocratic vice, prentg the telegraph boys as rpted and exploed by members of the upper class.