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	'''Harry's Restaurant''' in Lisle Street, [[Soho]], was a "resort of perverts and women of Ill-repute". The police brought a fine against the premises in 1936 for harbouring prostitutes, a year later it closed.		'''Harry's Restaurant''' in Lisle Street, [[Soho]], was a "resort of perverts and women of Ill-repute". The police brought a fine against the premises in 1936 for harbouring prostitutes, a year later it closed.

	Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the [[York Minster]], the [[~~Swiss~~]] and the [[Marquis of Granby]] in [[Soho]]. [[Peter Wildeblood]] called them "less [than] discreet", rough and cruisy. Throughout the 1930s respectable men in evening dress and camp queans solicited sailors and workmen in the [[Running Horse]]. Other venues included the [[Billie's Club]], the [[Hungry Horse]], [[Gerano's]] in New Compton Street, [[Chez Victor]] in Wardour Street. The downstairs bar at the [[Ritz Hotel]] was frequented by men from high society, nicknamed l’Abri (the shelter), and the [[Trocadero Long Bar]], owned by [[Lyon's Corner House]].		Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the [[York Minster]], the Swiss (now [[Comptons]]) and the [[Marquis of Granby]] in [[Soho]]. [[Peter Wildeblood]] called them "less [than] discreet", rough and cruisy. Throughout the 1930s respectable men in evening dress and camp queans solicited sailors and workmen in the [[Running Horse]]. Other venues included the [[Billie's Club]], the [[Hungry Horse]], [[Gerano's]] in New Compton Street, [[Chez Victor]] in Wardour Street. The downstairs bar at the [[Ritz Hotel]] was frequented by men from high society, nicknamed l’Abri (the shelter), and the [[Trocadero Long Bar]], owned by [[Lyon's Corner House]].

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Ross Burgess at 20:36, 13 May 2012

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	== References ==		== References ==
	''Queer London ~~– Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957~~'' ~~Matt Houlbrook, The University of Chicago Press, 2005.~~		[[Matt Houlbrook]], ''[[Queer London]]''

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Ross Burgess at 14:44, 12 May 2012

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	'''Harry's Restaurant''' in Lisle Street, ~~in London's~~ [[~~West End~~]], was a "resort of perverts and women of Ill-repute". The police brought a fine against the premises in 1936 for harbouring prostitutes, a year later it closed.		'''Harry's Restaurant''' in Lisle Street, [[Soho]], was a "resort of perverts and women of Ill-repute". The police brought a fine against the premises in 1936 for harbouring prostitutes, a year later it closed.


	Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the [[York Minster]], the [[Swiss]] and the [[Marquis of Granby]] in [[Soho]]. [[Peter Wildeblood]] called them "less [than] discreet", rough and cruisy. Throughout the 1930s respectable men in evening dress and camp queans solicited sailors and workmen in the [[Running Horse]]. Other venues included the [[Billie's Club]], the [[Hungry Horse]], [[Gerano's]] in New Compton Street, [[Chez Victor]] in Wardour Street. The downstairs bar at the [[Ritz Hotel]] was frequented by men from high society, nicknamed l’Abri (the shelter), and the [[Trocadero Long Bar]], owned by [[Lyon's Corner House]].		Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the [[York Minster]], the [[Swiss]] and the [[Marquis of Granby]] in [[Soho]]. [[Peter Wildeblood]] called them "less [than] discreet", rough and cruisy. Throughout the 1930s respectable men in evening dress and camp queans solicited sailors and workmen in the [[Running Horse]]. Other venues included the [[Billie's Club]], the [[Hungry Horse]], [[Gerano's]] in New Compton Street, [[Chez Victor]] in Wardour Street. The downstairs bar at the [[Ritz Hotel]] was frequented by men from high society, nicknamed l’Abri (the shelter), and the [[Trocadero Long Bar]], owned by [[Lyon's Corner House]].
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'''Harry's Restaurant''' in Lisle Street, in London's [[West End]], was a "resort of perverts and women of Ill-repute". The police brought a fine against the premises in 1936 for harbouring prostitutes, a year later it closed.

Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the [[York Minster]], the [[Swiss]] and the [[Marquis of Granby]] in [[Soho]]. [[Peter Wildeblood]] called them "less [than] discreet", rough and cruisy. Throughout the 1930s respectable men in evening dress and camp queans solicited sailors and workmen in the [[Running Horse]]. Other venues included the [[Billie's Club]], the [[Hungry Horse]], [[Gerano's]] in New Compton Street, [[Chez Victor]] in Wardour Street. The downstairs bar at the [[Ritz Hotel]] was frequented by men from high society, nicknamed l’Abri (the shelter), and the [[Trocadero Long Bar]], owned by [[Lyon's Corner House]].

== References ==
''Queer London – Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957'' Matt Houlbrook, The University of Chicago Press, 2005.

[[Category:West End]]
[[Category:London]]
[[Category:Bars]]