Curzon Street (Mayfair) 216
Dalston 213
Dalton, James 128
Damer, Anne 145
David and Jonathan (biblical figures) 21, 198
Davies, Christina (‘Christopher Welsh’) 137–8
Davis, John 131–2
Davy, Meredith 87
de Vere, Robert, Duke of Ireland 32
death penalty see capital punishment
Dekker, Thomas 48–9; The Roaring Girl 73–5
d’Eon, Chevalier 153–4
D’Ewes, Sir Simonds 62, 63–4
Dick’s Coffee House (Aldersgate) 85
Dicks, John 121
dildoes 69, 75–6, 116–17
Dilettanti, Society of 152, 158
Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 7–8
disco music 222
Dods, Mary Diana (‘Walter Sholto Douglas’; ‘David Lyndsay’) 145
‘dog’ (slang term) 51, 60
Donne, John 55, 79
Douglas, Lord Alfred 197, 203
‘Douglas, Walter Sholto’ see Dods, Mary Diana
Doulton, Thomas 122
Dowgate 10
Down Street underground station 200
drag acts 129, 182, 230
Druids’ Hall (City) 182
drum boys (military drummers) 126, 165, 167, 168
Drumlanrig, Francis Douglas, Viscount 197
Drury Lane 85, 122, 123, 141; Theatre Royal 112, 144
Drybutter, Samuel 158–9
Dryden, John: The Duke of Guise 94; An Evening’s Love 94; The Wild Gallant 85
Duffus, George 120–21
Dulwich College 156
Dunton, John, The He-Strumpets 111–12
Eadmer 20
Earls Court 219
earthquakes, as divine retribution 156
East, Mary (‘James How’) 136–7
Eddy, Prince see Albert Victor, Prince, Duke of Clarence
Edgware Road 205
Edmonds, Piers 65
Edward I, King 31
Edward II, King 27, 31–3, 52–3
Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) 193
‘Edwards, Lavinia/Eliza’ 176–7
Elizabeth I, Queen 42
Elizabeth II, Queen 228
Ellis, Havelock 4, 75, 173–4, 202–4
Empire music hall (Soho) 207
Endell Street 208
entrapment 101, 107–8, 111, 121–2, 164–5, 211, 215
Epstein, Sir Jacob 205
Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover 168
Ethelbert, King of Kent 15
Eton College 54
Eusebius of Caesarea 8
Euston, Henry James FitzRoy, Earl of 192, 193
Euston Road 206
exile, foreign 27, 151, 165, 168, 175, 194, 199, 213
Eynsham Abbey, Oxfordshire 70
‘faggot’, origin and usage of term 4–5
family, bonds of, alternatives to 148
‘Fanny and Stella’ (Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton) 183–5, 189
Fasset, James 130
fellatio: prosecutions and punishments for 16, 159–60; words for 3, 86, 109
Ferren, John 139
Festival club (Soho) 208
Fetter Lane (City) 26, 121
Field Lane (Holborn) 85, 119
Fielding, Henry: The Female Husband 139–40; Shamela 115
Fiesta club (Notting Hill Gate) 220
Finch, John 94–5
Finch, Richard 59
finger length, as sign of queerness 202
First World War 207–9
Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester 41
Fitzroy Tavern 216, 219
flagellation 92, 93, 144, 169
‘flats’ (slang term) 136
Fleet Street 26, 28, 125, 139, 181
Fleming, Anne 76
Fleta (legal treatise) 28
flogging, of children 25, 92–3
Florence, The (restaurant) 199
Florio, John 51
Foote, Samuel 160
Ford, John, The Lover’s Melancholy 86
foreign exile 27, 151, 165, 168, 175, 194, 199, 213
foreigners: kissing and 108; lesbianism and 114, 143; sodomy and 93–4, 164
Forster, E.M., Maurice 201, 206, 218
Fortune Theatre 74
Fountain Tavern (Strand) 85
Freud, Sigmund 204
‘fribble’ (slang term) 3, 147
Frith, Mary (‘Moll Cutpurse’) 73
Fuller’s Rents (Holborn) 85
Fuseli, Henry 170
Gallatinov, Mikhail Ivan 228
Ganymede (slang term) 2, 21, 43, 47, 51, 55, 109
Garrick, David 3, 142; Miss in Her Teens 147
Gateways club (Chelsea) 220
Gaveston, Piers, Earl of Cornwall 31–3
‘gay’, origins and usages of term 1, 228–9
Gay Black Group 222
Gay Liberation Front (GLF) 220–22
Gay News (magazine) 221
Gay Pride marches 221
Gay Teenage Group 222
gender fluidity, notion of 232
gentrification 231
George IV, King 172
George Tavern (Pall Mall) 101
Germanic tribes 8, 14
Getson, Sarah (‘John Getson’) 138
Gigolo, Le, club (Chelsea) 219
Gilbert le Strenmaker (brothel-keeper) 26
Gildas 14
Gill, Eric 205
Gill, John (‘Miss Beasley’) 157
Ginsberg, Allen, ‘Howl’ 218
gladiators: female 12–13; male 13
GLF (Gay Liberation Front) 220–22
Golden Legend (medieval text) 29
gonorrhoea 109
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 94
Goodchild, John 200
Goodwin, Marc 228
Gosson, Stephen, School of Abuse 47–8, 50
Gostlin, John 94
Gray, Thomas 151–2, 154
Great Carter Lane (City) 131
Great Dover Street (Southwark) 12
Greece, ancient 10–11, 69, 148, 201
Green Park 86
Green Street (Cavendish Square) 135–6
Greenwood, Frederick 188–9
Gregory I, Pope 15, 43
Gresham, Sir Thomas 39
Griffin public house (Soho) 207
guardsmen see soldiers
guidebooks and directories 135–6, 181, 212–13
Guilpin, Edward, Skialetheia 48
Guy’s Hospital 176
Hackney Road 182
hair styles: Celts 7, 13; Anglo-Saxons 14, 15; Normans 20; medieval 20, 23, 35; 18th century 151; 20th century 207, 220
Hall, Radclyffe, The Well of Loneliness 209–210
Hambone club (Soho) 208
Hamilton, Mary (‘Charles Hamilton’) 139–40
Hammersmith 200
Hammond, Charles 193
Hampstead 219
Hampstead Heath 230
Hampton Court Palace 204
handshake, replaces kissing as greeting 108, 163
handwriting, as sign of queerness 202
Hanson, Rowley 126
Harman, Thomas, Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors 70
Harpocrates (god) 12
Harrison, William, Description of England 70
Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies (directory of prostitutes) 135–6
Hatton Garden 178
Haxell’s Hotel (Strand) 183
Hay, Francis 157–8
Haymarket 183, 219
Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire 231
Heddon Street (Regent Street) 205
Hellfire Club 141
Henry I, King 21, 23
Henry VI, King 40
Henry VII, King 41
Henry VIII, King 41–2
Heraclitus 72
heraldry 40
Hercules (mythological figure) 13
‘hermaphrodite’, usage of ter
m 72, 75, 89, 106, 115, 126
hermaphroditism 36, 152
Hervey, John, 2nd Baron 115–16
Hic Mulier: or the Man-Woman (1620) 71–2
Higgins, Terrence 222
Highbury Fields 221
Hilary the Englishman (poet) 24–5
Hill, Barbara (‘John Brown’) 139
Hill Place (Mayfair) 211
Hitchen, Charles 126–7
Hogarth, William 142
Holborn 21, 26, 85, 119, 130, 183
Holland, Sarah 131–2
Hollingsworth, Ralph 81
Hollis, William 110–111
Holloway, John 131
Holloway, Robert, The Phoenix of Sodom 166–7
Holloway prison 199
Holywell Street (Strand) 175
homelessness, and queerness 187–8
Homosexual Law Reform Society 217
‘homosexuality’, coinage and usage of term 3–4
Horner, York (‘Pru’) 123
Horse Guards Parade 173
Horton, Alan 206
Hosier Lane (City) 26
Hounslow Heath 167
‘How, James’ see East, Mary
Howard, Edward 79
Howard, Henry 55–6
‘Howard, James’ see Poulter, Amy
Huggins, William 111
Hungerford, Walter, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury 42
Hunsdon, Henry Carey, 1st Baron 51
Hunt, Arabella 79–80
Huntingdon, George Hastings, 8th Earl of 100
Hutchinson, Ann 82
Hutchinson, Lucy 59
Hutton, Robert 208
Hyde Park 89, 164, 174; Serpentine 202
Hyons, John (‘Queen Iron’) 130
identity politics 229, 232
India 10, 17
‘indorser’ (slang term) 2–3, 123
Ingal Road (Newham) 2
ingles (depraved boys) 2, 48, 51, 88
inns, travellers’ bed-sharing 160–61
integration, of queer community 230–31
Isabella of France, Queen of England 32
Islam 228
Islington 71
Islington Music Hall 200
Istanbul (Constantinople) 14, 40
Ives, George 201–2
Jacob, Giles, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites 115, 116
James I, King 2, 59–62, 66–7, 72
James II, King 97
‘jemmy’ (slang term) 2, 147
Jennings, Catherine 76
Jermyn Street 112, 113, 144, 211
Jesuits 43–4
Jocelyn, Percy, Bishop of Clogher 170–72, 175
John, King 20
John of Salisbury (cleric) 25
Johnson, Marianne Rebecca 81
Johnson, Samuel 143
Jones, Lady Catharine 76
Jones, ‘Captain’ Thomas 157–9
Jonson, Ben: Epicoene 66, 75; ‘On Sir Voluptuous Beast’ 55; Poetaster 48
Judaism 228
Julius Caesar 7
Justinian, Byzantine emperor 13–14
Juvenal 12
Juventin and Maximin, Saints 18
Kandy Lounge club (Soho) 219
Kendall, Mary 76
Kensington High Street 219
Keppel, Arnold van, 1st Earl of Albemarle 98
Ketson, Sarah 82
Kettners (restaurant) 199
King, Terence 143
King Street (Westminster) 123
King’s Cross 188
King’s Road (Chelsea) 219, 220
kinship, bonds of, alternatives to 148
Kirby, Richard 102–3
kissing, as greeting, replaced by handshake 108, 163
Kitchener, Herbert, 1st Earl 187
Knight, Richard Payne, Discourse on the Worship of Priapus 152–3
knights (medieval) 24–5, 40
Knights Templar 26, 27
Knightsbridge, skating rink 181
Knightsbridge Barracks 173, 174
Knowles, Mary 137
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von 203
KU Girls bar (Soho) 229
Kynaston, Edward 88–9
Labouchere, Henry 190; Amendment (1885) 190–91, 199, 217
Lacretelle, Jean de 154
Lad Lane (City) 161
Lambeth Workhouse 188–9
Lancaster, Nathaniel, The Pretty Gentleman 147
Lane, Thomas 107
Langland, William, Piers Plowman 37
Latimer, Hugh, Bishop of Worcester 43
lavatories and urinals, public 26, 86, 106–7, 182, 200–201, 211–13, 216
Layamon, Brut 24
Le Marinel, Maureen 227
Leadenhall Market 157
Leader, Nicholas 120
Lee, Paris 227–8
Legge, Thomas 94
legislation: criminalising 41–2, 190–91, 209, 224; decriminalising 217–18, 225, 231
Leicester Fields/Square 117, 183
Leigh, Augusta 168
Lesage, Georges-Louis 116
‘lesbian’, origin and usage of term 5, 77
lesbianism: Roman times 12–13, 71; Anglo-Saxons 17, 18; medieval period 28, 70; 17th century 69–82, 90–91; 18th century 113–15, 116–17, 135–45; 19th century 145, 178, 203–4; 20th century 204–5, 207, 208, 209–210, 219–20; 21st century 228, 229, 231
lesbians, names for 5, 142
Levi, Michael 130–31
Lewis, C.S., The Allegory of Love 18
Lewis, Wyndham 205
Lewknors Lane (Covent Garden) 85
‘LGBTQIA’, usage of term 5, 228
Life and Pranks of Long Meg of Westminster, The (1590) 71
‘Lillie Law’ 219
Limehouse 86
Lincoln’s Inn Fields 86, 106
link boys (torch-bearers) 92
‘Little Taffy’ (prostitute) 86
Liverpool, gay village 231
Local Government Act (1988), Clause 28 224–5
Lollards 26–7, 28, 40
Lombards 26
London Bridge 26, 111
London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard 228
London Palladium see Palladium
London Pavilion 181
London School of Economics 221
Love in Earnest (1892) 192
Love-Letters Between a Certain late Nobleman and the Famous Beau Wilson (1723) 98–9
Ludgate Hill 39, 105
Lutherans 44
‘Lyndsay, David’ see Dods, Mary Diana
Lyons’ Corner House (restaurant) 207
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith 200
‘macaroni’ (slang term) 147, 158, 159
Macarty, Phelim 151
MacDonald, Sir Hector 187
Mackenzie, Sir Compton, Sinister Street 206
Macquisten, Frederick 209
Madame Jojo’s club (Soho) 230
Madame Tussauds (wax museum) 228
‘madge’ (slang term) 3, 157
make-up wearing 208, 211
Malgo, King of the Saxons 15
Malory, Sir Thomas 24
Manchester, gay village 231
Mankind (morality play; 1470) 37
Manley, Delarivier, The New Atlantis 114
Manning, Richard 131–2
Map, Walter 21
‘Mard Brothers’ (stage act) 109
Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of 113
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of 113–14
Marlowe, Christopher 52–3
Marquess of Granby public house (Fitzrovia) 219
marriage ceremonies, same-sex (pre-legalisation) 8, 40, 79–80, 136, 138–40, 145, 165, 204–5
marriage, same-sex 225, 227, 228, 231
Marshalsea prison 54
Marston, John 66; The Malcontent 48; The Metamorphosis of Pygmalion’s Image 51; The Scourge of Villany 51
Marten, John: Gonosologium Novum 126; A Treatise of all the Degrees and Symptoms of the Venereal Disea
se 109
Mary I, Queen 42
Marylebone 79, 126, 200, 212
Masham, Abigail, Baroness 113–14
Mason, John, The Turke 49
masquerades 150, 157, 163
Massey, James 165
Matelot coffee bar (Panton Street) 219
Matthews, Charles Skinner 168
Mayne, Xavier 204, 206–7
Maynwaring, Arthur, The Rival Duchess or the Court Incendiary 114
Medmenham Abbey, Buckinghamshire 141
melancholia and despair 151–2
Mempricius, king of the Britons 14
Mermaid Inn (Great Carter Lane) 131–2
Michelangelo 198
Middle English literature 35–7
Middlesex Sessions (court) 64, 73
Middleton, Thomas 49, 51; The Roaring Girl 73–5
military service, lifting of ban on service 225
milliners 39, 105–6, 149
Millington, Riley Carter 228
Minton, William 101–2
Minucius Felix 10
Mirk, John, Instructions to Parish Priests 39
Mitchell, John (‘Nurse Mitchell’) 128
Moggy Stewart’s, Park Street (meeting place) 168
‘Moll Cutpurse’ see Frith, Mary
‘mollies’, usage of term 2, 88, 112, 119
molly houses (clubs/meeting places) 97, 109, 112, 119–24, 125
monasticism 21, 23, 38, 41, 42–4, 70; see also nuns
Monsieur Thing’s Origin (1722) 116
Montagu, Sir Henry, 1st Earl of Manchester 62
Montfichet Tower 19
Moorfields 86, 121, 123
More, Sir Thomas 41
Morison, Sir Richard, A Remedy for Sedition 43
Mother Clap’s molly house 119–20
‘Mother Courage’ (brothel-keeper) 135
Mountford, John 139
Moverley, John 170–71
Muff, Jonathan (‘Miss Muff’) 125
Mugg, Thomas (‘Aunt Mugg’) 123
Muirhead, John 174–5
Munby, Arthur 182–3
music hall 142, 200
Myler, Margaret 39–40
names for queers and queerness 1–5, 16, 66, 147, 159, 181, 228–9, 232
Naomi (‘Micky’; munitions worker) 207
Nashe, Thomas 65; The Choice of Valentines 75
National Gallery 173
Neville, Sir William 40
Newall, Mary 178
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of (‘Mad Madge’) 78–9; The Convent of Pleasure 90–91; Philosophical and Physical Opinions 79
Newgate prison 3, 82, 112, 119, 125, 176, 199
Newington Butts 188
Newton, Thomas 121
Nicholls, Richard 65
Nichols, Henry 176
nightclubs see bars and nightclubs
Nixon, Anthony 65
Nokes, James ‘Nursery’ 89
Nolan, Deborah 139
Normans 18, 19–21
Norsemen 18–19
Notting Hill Gate 220, 230
nuns 28, 38, 76
Oakley Street (Chelsea) 198
Oglander, Sir John 62
Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court) 39, 93, 110, 120, 126, 198