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Despite laws against it in England, Victorian London had a distinctive Gay subculture and style and reputation for Homosexual activity. Reports implicated a series of well-known urban types: the bachelor, bohemian, theatregoer, actor, soldier and telegraph boy.
"There were certain streets and squares,hotels, men's clubs and health resorts which they frequented. To name a few..".Piccadilly Square,Cleveland and Vere Streets(where Holmes nearly met his death) the Turkish Baths (which Holmes and Watson frequented) the St.James Theatre, bookshops that secretly sold Gay literature,The Criteron Bar,( a well-known meeting spot and where Watson met Stamford in "A Study in Scarlett"), certain parks and the British Museum." Holmes once lived on Montague Street around the corner from the British Museum. Source: "London and the culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914" Matt Cook, Cambridge University Press.
Holmes had a distinctly " bohemian" lifestyle, an often used euphemism for Gay. He sits with his friend in the Northumberland Avenue Turkish baths, for which 'Holmes and I had a weakness'. His readings would show them to have homosexuality as their common denominator: Horace,Catullus,Hafiz and Thoreau. Holmes frequents Chinese opium dens,consorts with 'rough-looking men' and has at least five small refuges in different parts of London in which he was able to change his personality.' He stalks his prey, at various times, as a sailor, a rakish young workman..and an old woman: 'You've seen me as an old woman Watson. I was never more convincing...' Prior to writing "The Sign of Four", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle met Oscar Wilde through their mutual publisher; he spoke admiringly of him many years later. Sir Arthur was ambivalent about "inversion" as it was called at the time. He believed it an illness, (like cocaine addiction) and not a crime. Source: Strangers, Homosexual Love In The Nineteenth Century by noted historian Graham Robb.
Here's a link to an intriguing website. It was sent by a friend to whom I am forever grateful. Thank you cryptix23.
http://www.nekosmuse.com/sh...
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Strangers, Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
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