Queer London
Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

Acknowledgments
Note on Terminology
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: This Is London
PART 1 POLICING
1. Regulation
PART 2 PLACES
2. Geographies of Public Sex
3. The Pink Shilling
4. The Baths
5. A Room of One’s Own
PART 3 PEOPLE
6. “Piccadilly Palare”: The World of the West End Poof
7. “London’s Bad Boys”: Homosex, Manliness, and Money in Working-Class Culture
8. “The Heart in Exile”: Respectability, Restraint, and the City
PART 4 POLITICS
9. Sexual Difference and Britishness
10. Daring to Speak Whose Name? Queer Cultural Politics
Conclusion
Appendix Queer Incidents Resulting in Proceedings at the Metropolitan Magistrates Courts and City of London Justice Rooms, 1917–57
Notes
Bibliography
Index
History Today/Addison Wesley Longman: Longman/History Today Awards
Won
American Library Association: Stonewall Book Award: Gay and Lesbian Book Award
Honorable Mention
Royal Historical Society: Whitfield Prize
Won
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