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Queer London : perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 / Matt Houlbrook.
Author: Houlbrook, Matt.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
ISBN: 0226354601 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description: xii, 384 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Series: Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
Subject: Gay men England London History 20th century.
Homosexuality England London History 20th century.
Sex customs England London History 20th century.
London (England) Social life and customs 20th century.
Contents: Introduction: This is London -- Regulation -- Geographies of public sex -- The pink shilling -- The baths -- A room of one's own -- "Piccadilly palare" : the world of the West End poof -- "London's bad boys" : homosex, manliness, and money in working-class culture -- "The heart in exile" : respectability, restraint, and the city -- Sexual difference and Britishness -- Daring to speak whose name? : queer cultural politics -- Conclusion.