TY - BOOK AU - Houlbrook,Matt TI - Queer London: perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 SN - 0226354601 AV - HQ76.2. G72L655 2005 U1 - 306.76/62/094210904 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Chicago, London PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Gay men KW - England KW - London KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Homosexuality KW - Sex customs KW - London (England) KW - Social life and customs N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip057/2005004166.html ER -