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'''The Careless Stork''' was a nightclub in Denman Street, Soho, in the 1930s.

Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the [[Sphinx]] and [[Music Box]], [[York Minster]], [[Festival]], [[Caravan]], [[Boeuf sur Le Toit]] in Orange Street, the [[Arts and Battledress]] (also in Orange Street) the Swiss (now [[Comptons]]) 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]].

== References ==
[[Matt Houlbrook]], ''[[Queer London]]''

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