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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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	'''The Sphinx''' in Gerard Street, Soho,was a gay club opened by Muriel Belcher and Dolly Mayers in 1937. ~~The~~ opened The [[Music Box]] later ~~hat~~ year in Leicester Place.		'''The Sphinx''' in Gerard Street, Soho,was a gay club opened by [[Muriel Belcher]] and [[Dolly Mayers]] in 1937. They opened The [[Music Box]] later that year in Leicester Place.

	See [[Timeline of West End Bars and Clubs]].		See [[Timeline of West End Bars and Clubs]].
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	'''The Sphinx''' in Gerard Street, Soho,was a gay club opened by Muriel Belcher and Dolly Mayers in 1937. The opened The [[Music Box]] later hat year in Leicester Place.		'''The Sphinx''' in Gerard Street, Soho,was a gay club opened by Muriel Belcher and Dolly Mayers in 1937. The opened The [[Music Box]] later hat year in Leicester Place.

	~~Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the [[Caravan]],~~ [[~~York Minster]], [[Festival]], [[Careless Stork]], [[Boeuf sur Le Toit]] in Orange Street, the [[Arts and Battledress]] (also in Orange Street) 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]], [[White 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), the [[Trocadero Long Bar]], the [[Criterion]] and [[Lyon's Corner House]]s, [[Spartan]] in Tachbrook Street and ~~[[Bennet's Festival~~]].		See [[Timeline of West End Bars and Clubs]].

	== References ==		== References ==

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	Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the [[Caravan]], [[York Minster]], [[Festival]], [[Careless Stork]], [[Boeuf sur Le Toit]] in Orange Street, the [[Arts and Battledress]] (also in Orange Street) 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]], [[White 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), the [[Trocadero Long Bar]], the [[Criterion]] and [[Lyon's Corner House]]s, [[Spartan]] in Tachbrook Street and [[Bennet's Festival]].		Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the [[Caravan]], [[York Minster]], [[Festival]], [[Careless Stork]], [[Boeuf sur Le Toit]] in Orange Street, the [[Arts and Battledress]] (also in Orange Street) 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]], [[White 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), the [[Trocadero Long Bar]], the [[Criterion]] and [[Lyon's Corner House]]s, [[Spartan]] in Tachbrook Street and [[Bennet's Festival]].

			== 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 and Pubs]]
			[[Category:Night Clubs]]

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'''The Sphinx''' in Gerard Street, Soho,was a gay club opened by Muriel Belcher and Dolly Mayers in 1937. The opened The [[Music Box]] later hat year in Leicester Place.

Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the [[Caravan]], [[York Minster]], [[Festival]], [[Careless Stork]], [[Boeuf sur Le Toit]] in Orange Street, the [[Arts and Battledress]] (also in Orange Street) 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]], [[White 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), the [[Trocadero Long Bar]], the [[Criterion]] and [[Lyon's Corner House]]s, [[Spartan]] in Tachbrook Street and [[Bennet's Festival]].