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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.

References

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.
-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 ==
+[[Matt Houlbrook]], ''[[Queer London]]''
+[[Category:Soho]]
+[[Category:Pubs and bars]]
+[[Category:Night Clubs]]
+[[Category:Articles with no pictures]]