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Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis 1918-57
by Matt Houlbrook.
Chicago, 384 pp., £20.50, September 2005,0 226 35460 1 Show More
by Matt Houlbrook.
Chicago, 384 pp., £20.50, September 2005,
“... only eight months before. Having arrived in the same year as the Civil Partnership Register, Matt Houlbrook’s impressive study of queer life in London between 1918 and 1957 does much to revise our understanding of homosexuality in that period. Coverage of recent changes in the law has tended to portray the 20th century as a time of darkness, in ... ”
