The Fotten Secret Language of Gay Men - Atlas Obscura

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• ‘BOG JOBS’: PUBLIC TOILETS AND GAY ENUNTERS
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• THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
• STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS

‘BOG JOBS’: PUBLIC TOILETS AND GAY ENUNTERS

The newly surfaced, unseen imag are rerds of a polil climate which homosexualy was prosecuted and illic sex between men a risky thrill. as parks, partment stor, tube and railway statns, where gay men were. Homosexualy.

had been partly crimalised by the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967, but anti-gay. gay men remaed closeted.

In the s after 1967, as many as 15, 000 gay men are timated to have been nvicted of such term ‘ttagg’ refers to cisg or engagg. wh gay men. He realised how easy police were fdg to ‘nick’ and prosecute men for homosexual activy, often by employg ‘pretty police’ pla cloth to set up gay men, or by g dub pnage tactics.

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to hi out the ceilg (right) to ‘nick’ men for homosexual activy. In the early 1980s, Polglaze was dog four or five ‘bog jobs’ a week, an ditn of que how much police activy was directed towards tchg gay men and a reflectn of the polil climate.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

In a September 2005 terview wh the Gay Tim — the only place which some of the photographs were ever published — he said: “My job as a photographer was to asss the stcture of the place and tablish sightl. stggle for gay rights gaed ground the 1990s, changg the culture and.

toilets as popular spots for secret enunters among gay men; a social history. A NOTORIOUS cy centre gay 'cisg' spot has been raid by police after reports of lewd behavur broad daylight ont of appalled gents public toilets at the foot of the Mound have bee notor as a ttagg spot, acrdg to onle sourc. ”The Mound toilets feature on ter msage boards as a popular cisg se for gay men.

STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS

“He’s lucky a gay guy hasn’t smacked him, let alone anyone else. ”A member of the gay muny told the Eveng News he saw police makg their way up the steps of the loos on Wednday afternoon.

I’m gay myself and kd of embarrassed by . Too right Hora, all those gayers should be well ashmed of themselv, right? They’re gay men, not terrorists Hora.