The Fotten Secret Language of Gay Men - Atlas Obscura

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Ben Gazur’s whistle-stop tour of the history of gay men London tak om 14th-century persecutn to morn Pri events.

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‘BOG JOBS’: PUBLIC TOILETS AND GAY ENUNTERS

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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.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

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

GAY MEN LONDON, OM PERSECUTN TO PRI

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.

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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. 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.

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