Reflectg on the Gay Bathhoe (not – let be noted! – that I have ever been to one). A note on The Savoy Baths, 97, Jermyn Street, London and the patibily of Artistic Mimis wh Surreal Inventn Christopher Wood’s Art. As ual I want to do too much this blog. My ial…
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Meanwhile the exclively male Savoy Turkish Baths at 92 Jermyn Street remaed open, ed they remaed open all night long and not surprisgly soon they beme popular wh gay men not least bee of the ‘bachelor chambers nnected to the bath’ that uld be ‘let at morate rentals’. After the war, an attempt to survive as ongog ncerns, the remag Turkish baths London, and pecially the Savoy, started to subtly enurage their gay clientele while at the same time subdug their ternal policg. However the baths had always had a b of a gay reputatn and was to the Savoy Turkish baths that Christopher Isherwood and WH Aun took the 24 year old Benjam Brten 1937.
The Turkish baths were was one of the few plac a closeted gay actor, of which would be fair to say there would have been que a few, uld feel reasonable safe om the police. The closeted gay actor Rock Hudson would also often vis the Jermyn Street baths perhaps after tryg the var after-shav available the Dunhill shop across the road (which is still there). His hastily arranged marriage to Phyllis Gat the secretary of his agent 1955 was a direct rult of Confintial magaze threateng to expose his hidn gay liftyle.
Ironilly, however, wasn’t until homosexualy was legalised that raids on the baths beme more mon. The New London Spy, a rather self-ncly trendy gui book for London published the late sixti, wrote about the remag Turkish baths London (sentially they meant the Savoy Jermyn Street which of urse was jt down the road om Picdilly Circ – a pick-up lotn known gay parlance at the time as the ‘Wheel of Fortune”):. Tags: gay, gossip, Picdilly, sndal, sex, St Jam, Turkish Baths.
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The book foc on the perd between the end of World War I and the publitn of the fluential report on homosexual offenc and. The Wolfenn Report, as was generally known, led�but only after a further 10 years�to the crimalisg of homosexual behavur between nsentg adults private, though had no relevance to their behavur wh public spac such as Turkish baths. Houlbrook�s chapter, �The Baths�, is based on a wi range of sourc cludg bgraphil material, reports, mtee mut, gui books, newspaper reports, and excerpts om terviews wh a number of gay men.
He nclus that durg this perd, gay men began to feel creasgly secure, and more or ls safe om prosecutn several of London�s mercial Turkish baths, and even some of those n by lol thori. Matt Cook's London and the culture of homosexualy, 1885�1914, is the oute of his rearch to the perd immediately before Houlbrook�s, yet there are only two referenc to Turkish baths his x, and neher is to a Turkish bath London�ed, one is Paris.