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Billie's Club was a nightclub in Little Denmark Street, London run by Billie Joice. 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

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

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 '''Billie's Club''' was a nightclub in Little Denmark Street, London run by [[Billie Joice]]. 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 [[Sphinx]] and [[Music Box]], [[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 [[Caravan]], 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 ==