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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 in 1936/7. | ||
Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the [[York Minster]], the [[Swiss]] and the [[Marquis of Granby]] in [[Soho]]. [[Peter Wildblood]] 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]]. | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
Revision as of 15:57, 15 March 2012
Billie's Club was a nightclub in Little Denmark Street, London in 1936/7.
Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the York Minster, the Swiss and the Marquis of Granby in Soho. Peter Wildblood 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.
References
Queer London – Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 Matt Houlbrook, The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=5133129