Queer London Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957

Name: Queer London Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957
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ISBN: 9780226354620

ISBN-10: 0226354628

ISBN-13: 9780226354620

Edition: 2006

Authors: Matt Houlbrook

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In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big city. He wrote, "I have only been queer since I came to London about two years ago, before then I knew nothing about it." London, for Cyril, meant boundless opportunities to explore his newfound sexuality. But his freedom was limite: he was soon arrested, simply for being in a club frequented by queer men. Cyril's story is Matt Houlbrook's point of entry into the queer worlds of early twentieth-century London. Drawing on previously unknown sources, from police reports and newspaper exposes to…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 398
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note on Terminology


List of Abbreviations


Introduction: This is London



Policing



Regulation



Places



Geographies of Public Sex



The Pink Shilling



The Baths



A Room of One's Own



People



"Piccadilly Palare": The World of the West End Poof



"London's Bad Boys": Homosex, Manliness, and Money in Working-Class Culture



"The Heart in Exile": Respectability, Restraint, and the City



Politics



Sexual Difference and Britishness



Daring to Speak Whose Name? Queer Cultural Politics


Conclusion



Queer Incidents Resulting in Proceedings at the Metropolitan Magistrates' Courts and City of London Justice Rooms, 1917-57


Notes


Bibliography


Index