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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.