It’s Pride Month 2024 and here I am in London – a city that has known how to party since the Middle Ages, and possibly before. A quick scan of some digital newspaper archives – and my own non-digital mountains of paper going back 300 years – reveals plenty of evidence of gay men in…
Beneath what is now the London School of Economics lies the remains of a “molly house” – a gay bar basically – once located in the long demolished warren of streets that made up Clare Market. The White Swan pub was on the corner of Vere Street, which you can no longer find. This drinking…
LGBT life in London during the Bridgerton era was surprisingly open but dangerous as a court case from the time reveals
In 1743 two LGBT men were hanged in London for the crime of sodomy and as Tony McMahon discovers, being outwardly gay was a very dangerous business
