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'''The Biograph Cinema''' was a 24 hour rolling news cinema in Victoria, London. It became very popular during the second World War. In the 1960s it was one of London's gay landmarks and renamed the '''Biogrope'''. The Metropolitan Police's increase surveillance of public lavatories drove men looking to 'pick up' into the comfort and darkness of the cinema. Men would often change seats to sit next to a young man. | '''The Biograph Cinema''' was a 24 hour rolling news cinema in Victoria, London. It became very popular during the second World War. In the 1960s it was one of London's gay landmarks and renamed the '''Biogrope'''. The Metropolitan Police's increase surveillance of public lavatories drove men looking to 'pick up' into the comfort and darkness of the cinema. Men would often change seats to sit next to a young man. | ||
| − | [[Kenneth Williams]] visiting in 1952 said "in the hope of traditional entertainment" complained bitterly, after finding it "terribly desolate". | + | [[Kenneth Williams]] visiting in 1952 said "in the hope of traditional entertainment" complained bitterly, after finding it "terribly desolate". <ref>''Queer London – Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957'' Matt Houlbrook, The University of Chicago Press, 2005.</ref> |
"Admission around 1964 was 2/6 (half-a-crown), about 13p in today's money and coinage. And very good value too!! The lighting was changed after an article in the News of the World wrote about the activity there." <ref>http://www.kemglen.talktalk.net/stradivarius/OurHistory1967.htm</ref> | "Admission around 1964 was 2/6 (half-a-crown), about 13p in today's money and coinage. And very good value too!! The lighting was changed after an article in the News of the World wrote about the activity there." <ref>http://www.kemglen.talktalk.net/stradivarius/OurHistory1967.htm</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 21:59, 20 March 2012
The Biograph Cinema was a 24 hour rolling news cinema in Victoria, London. It became very popular during the second World War. In the 1960s it was one of London's gay landmarks and renamed the Biogrope. The Metropolitan Police's increase surveillance of public lavatories drove men looking to 'pick up' into the comfort and darkness of the cinema. Men would often change seats to sit next to a young man.
Kenneth Williams visiting in 1952 said "in the hope of traditional entertainment" complained bitterly, after finding it "terribly desolate". [1]
"Admission around 1964 was 2/6 (half-a-crown), about 13p in today's money and coinage. And very good value too!! The lighting was changed after an article in the News of the World wrote about the activity there." [2]
It was demolished in 1983.
References
- ↑ Queer London – Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 Matt Houlbrook, The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- ↑ http://www.kemglen.talktalk.net/stradivarius/OurHistory1967.htm
