Billie's Club: Difference between revisions

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Billie's Club was a nightclub in Little Denmark Street, London run by Billie Joyce. It opened in October 1935. She purposefully attracted a gay clientelle and employed camp cabaret acts such as Fred Barnes.

See Timeline of West End Bars and Clubs.

References

Matt Houlbrook, Queer London

National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=5133129Pubs and bars]]

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-'''Billie's Club''' was a nightclub in Little Denmark Street, London in 1936/7.
+'''Billie's Club''' was a nightclub in Little Denmark Street, London run by [[Billie Joyce]]. It opened in October 1935. She purposefully attracted a gay clientelle and employed camp cabaret acts such as [[Fred Barnes]].
-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]].
+See [[Timeline of West End Bars and Clubs]].
 == References ==
-''Queer London – Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957'' Matt Houlbrook, The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
+[[Matt Houlbrook]], ''[[Queer London]]''
 National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=5133129
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