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Queer City

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by Peter Ackroyd


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  Murray, J., Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West (New York, 1999)

  Murray, J., & Eisenbichler, K. (eds), Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto, 1996)

  Naphy, W. G., Born to be Gay: A History of Homosexuality (Stroud, 2004)

  Norton, R., Mother Clap’s Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700–1830 (London, 1992)

  Norton, R., The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity (London, 1997)

  Norton, R., Gay History and Literature (London, 2016)

  Norton, R. (ed.), Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook (London, 2016)

  O’Donnell, K., & O’Rourke, M. (eds), Love, Sex, Intimacy, and Friendship between Men, 1550–1800 (Basingstoke, 2003)

  Oram, A., & Turnbull, A. (eds), The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex between Women in Britain from 1780 to 1970 (London, 2001)

  Orgel, S., Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England (Cambridge, 1996)

  Orton, J., The Orton Diaries: Including the Correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and Others (Lahr, J., ed.) (London, 1986)

  Pasternack, C. B., & Weston, L. M. (eds), Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder (Tempe, AZ, 2004)

  Payer, P. J., Sex and the Penitentials: The Development of a Sexual Code, 550–1150 (Toronto, 1984)

  Peakman, J., Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century (London, 2004)

  Phillips, K. M., & Reay, B., Sexualities in History: A Reader (New York, 2002)

  Phillips, K. M., & Reay, B., Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History (Cambridge, 2011)

  Plummer, K. (ed.), The Making of the Modern Homosexual (London, 1981)

  Porter, K., & Weeks, J. (eds), Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men 1885–1967 (London, 1991)

  Porter, R., & Rousseau, G. S. (eds), Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (Manchester, 1987)

  Quinn, P. A., Better than the Sons of Kings: Boys and Monks in the Early Middle Ages (New York, 1989)

  Raitt, S. (ed.), Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Essays in Lesbian Feminist Studies (London, 1995)

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  Render, R. (ed.), A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Clarke (London, 1999)

  Robb, G., & Erber, N., (eds), Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century (Basingstoke, 1999)

  Robinson, P., The Changing World of Gay Men (Basingstoke, 2008)

  Rocke, M., Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence (New York, 1996)

  Rossiaud, J., & Cochrane, L. G., Medieval Prostitution (Oxford, 1988)

  Rowland, J. T., ‘Swords in myrtle dress’d’: Towards a Rhetoric of Sodom: Gay Readings of Homosexual Politics and Poetics in the Eighteenth Century (Madison, 1998)

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  Steele, V., A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk (New Haven, 2013)

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  Vicinus, M., Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women: 1778–1928 (Chicago, 2004)

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  Wilson, W., Love-letters between a Certain Late Nobleman and the Famous Mr. Wilson (London, 1723)

  Wunderli, R. M., London Church Courts and Society on the Eve of the Reformation (Cambridge, MA, 1981)

  Young, M. B., James VI and I and the History of Homosexuality (Basingstoke, 2000)

  Zeikowitz, R. E., Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses in Male Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century (New York, 2003)

  Zimmerman, S. (ed.), Erotic Politics: Desire on the Renaissance Stage (New York, 1992)

  Index

  The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.

  A&B club (Soho) 208, 219

  Ackerley, J.R. 4

  Act of Supremacy (1534) 41

  actors 45, 47–52, 88–9, 109, 113, 142, 203–4

  Addison, Joseph 106

  Admiral Duncan public house (Soho) 230

  adoption rights 231

  Adulteress, The (1773) 142

  age of consent 225

  Aids (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) 222–5

  Albany Barracks (Regent’s Park) 190

  Albemarle, Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of 98

  Albert Gate (Hyde Park) 174

  Albert Victor, Prince, Duke of Clarence (‘Prince Eddy’) 193, 194

  Albigensians 2

  Alcuin of York, St 18, 119

  Aldersgate, Dick’s Coffee House 85

  Aldgate, Holy Trinity Priory 21

  alehouses see public houses

  Alfred, King 15

  Alhambra Theatre 181, 183

  Allan, Maud 209

  ‘Allen, James’ 176

  Ambrose, St 71

  Anabaptists 44

  Anandrinic Societies 144

  Ancrene Riwle (monastic manual) 28

  Andrew, Agnes 39–40

  Anglesey, Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of 206

  Anglo-Saxons 14–18

  Anne, Queen 113–14

  Anselm of Canterbury, St 20, 23

  Arbuthnot, Harriet 172

  Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von 144, 163

  Argyll Street 213

  Aristotle 7

  Aristotle’s Masterpiece (1684) 78

  Asbington, Ralph (‘Shittern-arse’) 86

  Ashley, Sir Anthony 64

  asking for directions, as trysting technique 110, 131

  Astoria (Tottenham Court Road) 222

  Athenaeus of Naucratis 8

  Athens, ancient 148

  Aubrey, John, Brief Lives 62

  Augustine of Canterbury, St 15

  Augustinians 26

  ‘back door’ (slang term) 3, 53, 158, 181

  ‘backgammon players’ (slang
term) 3, 181

  Bacon, Anne, Lady 62–3

  Bacon, Anthony 62–3

  Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban 62–4

  Badding, Robert 21

  Baines, Richard 52

  Baines, Thomas 94–5

  Baker, Thomas 105–6

  Bale, John, The Acts of the English Votaries 43

  Bang! nightclub 222

  Bankes, William 175

  Banner, Charles 122

  Baptist’s Head alehouse (Holborn) 130–31

  Barber, Mary 76

  ‘bardash’ (slang term) 97, 100

  Bardesanes of Edessa 8

  Barley Mow public house (Strand) 173

  Barnardo, Thomas John 189

  Barnfield, Richard, The Affectionate Shepherd 53

  bars and nightclubs 205, 207–8, 211, 219–20, 222, 226, 229–30; see also public houses

  Basset, Fulk, Bishop of London 28

  baths, public 9–10, 26, 113, 150, 182, 202; see also saunas

  Battersea 124

  Bawde, Edward 65

  Baynard’s Castle 19

  BBC 228

  Beakley, Samuel 108

  Beaumarchais, Pierre 153

  Beckford, William 152, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169

  Bede the Venerable, St 15

  Bedford, Lucy Russell, Countess of 75

  Beech Lane (City) 123

  Beefsteak Club 142

  Behn, Aphra 78; The Amorous Prince 93–4; The False Count 78; Lycidus 78

  Belling, Susannah 81

  Benkert, Karl-Maria, coinage of term ‘homosexuality’ 3, 5

  Bennett, Betty T., Mary Diana Dods 145

  Bentham, Jeremy 169–70

  Bentinck, William, 1st Earl of Portland 97–8, 100

  berdaches (Native Americans) 17

  ‘Berlin Black Book’ 208–9

  Bermondsey 213

  Bermondsey Abbey 21

  Bernard of Clairvaux, St 21

  bestiality 15

  Bethlem Hospital (‘Bedlam’) 74, 131

  Bhoota (Indian dancers) 17

  Bible 3, 15, 21, 36, 71

  Billing, Noel Pemberton 208–9

  Billingsgate 10

  Biograph cinema (Victoria) 219

  birching 206

  Birdcage Walk 110

  Birmingham, gay village 231

  bisexuality 4, 204

  Bishopsgate 167

  Black Lion Yard (Whitechapel) 125

  black magic see sorcery

  Blackfriars Theatre 49

  blackmail 107, 110–111, 128, 133, 136, 165, 174–5, 186, 208, 215

  Blackman Street (Southwark) 167

  Blackstone, Sir William, Commentaries on the Laws of England 156

  Blair, John 108

  Blake, William 232

  Bloomsbury Way 216

  Blount, Sir Thomas 38

  boat race, Oxford and Cambridge 183, 200

  Boniface, St 18

  Bonny, Ann 137

  bookshops 221

  Borough High Street 167, 213

  Boulton, Ernest (‘Stella’) 183–5, 189

  Bovey, Katherine 82

  Bow Street 113, 135; Cock Inn 90; magistrates’ court 166, 183, 210

  Bradshaw, Frances 113

  Bramerton Street (Chelsea) 220

  Branson, Richard 130

  Bray, Thomas 101

  Bricklayers Arms public house (Fitzrovia) 219

  Bridewell prison 125

  ‘Britannicus’ (pseud.), The Conspirators: Or, The Case of the Catiline 99

  Britby, John 37

  Britton (legal summary) 28

  Broderick, Isaac 131

  Brome, Richard, The Antipodes 76

  Brooks, Ned 86

  brothels: Roman times 9–10; medieval period 26, 39; 16th and 17th centuries 49, 51, 85, 86; 18th century 135, 150; 19th century 174, 190, 193; see also prostitution

  Brouderer, Elizabeth 38

  ‘Brown, Charles’ see Charke, Charlotte

  ‘Brown, John’ see Hill, Barbara

  Brown, William 121–2

  Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of 60–62, 64

  Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of 88, 89

  Buckingham Palace 86

  ‘bugger’, origins and usages of term 2, 41, 42

  Buggery Act (1533) 41–2

  Bull public house (Strand) 173

  Bull Ward 13

  Bulstrode, Cecelia 75

  Bunch of Grapes tavern (Clare Market) 123

  Bunch of Grapes tavern (Holborn) 120

  Bundy, Samuel 138–9

  Burford, Oxfordshire 38

  burials, joint, same-sex 40, 76, 94–5

  Burke, Edmund 156

  Burke, Thomas (‘Paul Pry’) 205–6; For Your Convenience 212–13

  Burlington Arcade 181, 183

  Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury 98

  Burney, Frances, Evelina 106

  Burton, Robert, The Anatomy of Melancholy 43, 70

  Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 76

  ‘butterflies’ (slang term) 165

  Byron, George, 6th Baron 168

  Byzantine empire 13–14

  Café Royal 199

  Calley, Edward 131

  Calvino, Italo, Invisible Cities 149

  Camberwell 182

  Cambridge University 26, 94–5; boat race 183, 200

  Cameron, David 227

  ‘camp’, origins and usages of term 3, 109, 185

  Candy Bar (Soho) 229

  capital punishment 17, 41, 42, 65, 66, 88, 110, 133, 151, 163–4, 170, 176

  Caravan club (Endell Street) 208

  Carey, George, Archbishop of Canterbury 227

  Carpenter, Edward 201–2

  Casanova, Giacomo 153

  Castiglione, Baldassare 41

  Castle tavern (Seven Dials) 142

  Castlehaven, Mervyn Touchet, 2nd Earl of 87–8

  Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount 172–3

  ‘catamite’, usage of term 2, 21, 51, 60, 63

  Catholicism 41, 42, 43–5

  ‘caudle’ (slang term) 3

  Cave of the Golden Calf club (Regent Street) 205

  Cave of Harmony club (Soho) 208

  Cavendish Square 136

  Celts 7–8, 14

  Chaddock, Charles Gilbert 3–4

  Chaeronea, Order of 201–2

  Chalice Bar (Soho) 208

  Chamberlain, John 74

  Chamberlayne, Anne 81

  Chancery Lane 26, 121, 213

  Charing Cross 102, 123, 181

  Charing Cross Road 181

  Charke, Charlotte (‘Charles Brown’) 141–2

  Charles I, King 67, 88

  Charles II, King 78, 88

  Charles Street (Haymarket) 171

  Charlotte Charke Tavern (Drury Lane) 141

  Chaucer, Geoffrey 40; The Canterbury Tales 35–6, 232

  Cheapside 37, 155

  Chelsea 198, 219, 220

  Cheyne, Thomas 54

  ‘chicken’ and ‘chicken hawk’, usage of terms 2

  Children’s Petition (1669) 92

  Chitting, Anne 76

  chivalry 24–5, 40

  Chivy, John 138

  choirboys 173–4

  Christianity 1, 13, 15–18, 152; see also Bible; Catholicism; Church of England; Lollards; monasticism

  Christopher’s Alley (Moorfields) 123

  Christ’s College, Cambridge 94–5

  Christ’s Hospital (school) 169

  Church of England 15–18, 23–4, 28, 41, 44, 95, 110, 227; courts 39–40; see also monasticism

  churches and churchyards, as trysting places 124–5

  Churchill, Charles 150

  Cibber, Colley 108–9

  cinemas 219

  circus performers 81, 165

  cities, and queerness 148–50, 182

  City of Quebec public house (Oxford Street) 230

  Clanvowe, Sir John 40

  Clap, Margaret 119, 120

  Clare Mark
et 123, 165

  Clarkson, Willie 200

  ‘Clarkson’s Cottage’ (public urinal) 200

  class, social see cross-class relationships

  Clause 28 (Local Government Act; 1988) 224–5

  clean-shavenness 2, 13, 15, 35, 45, 185

  Cleanness (Middle English poem) 37

  Cleland, John, Fanny Hill 151

  Clerkenwell 85, 213

  Clerkenwell Priory 21

  Clermont-Ferrand 151

  Cleveland Street scandal 191–4, 199

  Clifford, Lady Anne, 14th Baroness de Clifford 70

  clitoris 140, 204; rediscovery of 69–70

  Clogher, Percy Jocelyn, Bishop of 170–72, 175

  clothing and dress: Roman times 11–12; Anglo-Saxons 14, 17; Normans 20; 16th century 47; 17th century 61; 18th century 151, 159; 19th century 202; 20th century 202–3, 210, 220; see also transvestism

  clubs see bars and nightclubs

  Cock Inn (Bow Street) 90

  coffee houses/bars 85, 115, 120, 219

  Coke, Sir Edward 65–6

  Colquhoun, Patrick 165

  Colynson, Robert 47

  ‘coming out’ 222, 231

  Constantinople (Istanbul) 14, 40

  contagion, fears of 156–7

  Cooke, Alban 64

  Cooke, James 165

  Coome, Catherine 204–5

  Cooper, Mary 139

  Coopers, Worshipful Company of 131

  Coote, Sir Eyre 169

  Cope, Sir John 101

  Cornhill 21

  Corona Regia (1615) 61–2

  ‘cottaging’ see lavatories, public

  Cotton, Henry 169

  Counterfeit Bridegroom, The (1695) 81–2

  Courtenay, William, 9th Earl of Devon 152, 168

  courts martial 151, 163

  Covent Garden 14, 106, 111, 123, 135; market 86; St Paul’s Church 213

  Coventry Street, Lyons’ Corner House 207

  Cowcross Street (Farringdon) 85

  Cowper, John (‘Princess Seraphina’) 129–30, 157

  Cox, Laverne 228

  Criminal Law Amendment Act (1885) 190–91, 199, 217

  Criminal Law Amendment Bill (1921) 209

  Cripplegate 21, 88

  Crisp, Quentin 215

  Criterion (Piccadilly Circus) 208, 219

  ‘Cromwell, Jenny’ (pseud.), Jenny Cromwell’s Complaint Against Sodomy 100

  Cromwell, Oliver 88

  Cromwell, Thomas 42, 43

  Crooke, Helkiah, Microsmographia 69–70

  cross-class relationships 167, 186–9, 201–2

  cross-dressing see transvestism

  Crown Inn (Lad Lane) 161

  Crown public house (Charing Cross Road) 181

  Crusades 26

  Crutched Friars 155

  Cumberland, Ernest Augustus, Duke of 168

  Curtain (playhouse) 48, 51

 

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