After Craigslist and Manhunt, Here is Where Gays Will Get Their Clicks

Contents:

• 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
• 8 ADS GAY-IENDS ALL CLASSIFIEDS LONDON
• AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS

10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS

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….

8 ADS GAY-IENDS ALL CLASSIFIEDS LONDON

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.

AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS

It was only days after the Irish referendum on gay marriage. Gay.

Acrdg to the Metropolan Police, the last nvictns for nng a 'disorrly hoe were brought 1990 agast two men who ran a gay sna Streatham (they were imprisoned for three and six months rpectively) of the boys here are actors between jobs, but there are also office workers who are to the gay club scene a big way and who nnot fance this liftyle solely out of a regular wage. He do have is a very good atmosphere and I often go to 'Tra (a gay club) wh the boys after work on Saturday night.

The book clus tal of Soho’s clanste gay clubs om the days when homosexualy was illegal, the punters exorably drawn to the area, the velopment of the secret slang known as Polari or Palare, as well as the Dilly’s fluence on pop stars om the Rollg Ston to Morrissey. I do so only to share a story, a lson life that might make others thk, before they make a cisn that leads to nsequenc they n’t many would stoop to do what I did, homels, gay, or not. 5Google Scholar; Aronson, Theo, Prce Eddy and the Homosexual Unrworld, 2nd ed.

G., Namels Offenc: Homosexual Dire the Neteenth Century (London, 2003), 144–53Google Scholar. And London, the telegraph system, thanks to s msengers, served a unique role urban male homoerotic muni, an arrangement absent om Downey’s evince.

11 Houlbrook, Matt, “Soldier Hero and Rent Boys: Homosex, Masculi, and Brishns the Briga of Guards, 1900–1960, ” Journal of Brish Studi 42, no. 14 To avoid a lengthy historgraphic summary, what follows is a handful of the most fluential works on the history of Victorian Brish male homosexualy, wh an emphasis on more recent ntributns: Weeks, Jeffery, Sex, Polics and Society, and Between the Acts: Liv of Homosexual Men, 1885-1967 (London, 1990); Eve KGoogle Scholar. Sedgwick,, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley, 1990)Google Scholar; Mort, Frank, Dangero Sexuali: Medi-Moral Polics England sce 1830 (London, 1987)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Cocks, Namels Offenc; Cohen, Ed, Talk on the Wil Si: Toward a Genealogy of a Disurse on Male Sexuali (London, 1993)Google Scholar; Cook, Matt, London and the Culture of Homosexualy, 1885–1914 (Cambridge, 2003)Google Scholar; Brady, Sean, Masculy and Male Homosexualy Bra, 1861–1913 (New York, 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Upchurch, Charl, Before Wil: Sex between Men Bra’s Age of Reform (Berkeley, 2009)Google Scholar.

33 Cook, London and the Culture of Homosexualy, troductn and chap.