For Your Convenience - A CLASSIC 1930'S GUIDE TO LONDON LOOS
- Format:
- MP3
- Protection:
- Digital watermark
- Published:
- November 18, 2021
- Narrator:
- Barnaby Edwards
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Description of For Your Convenience - A CLASSIC 1930'S GUIDE TO LONDON LOOS
A facsimile guide to the Gents Loos of London published originally in 1937 by Routledge.
Hailed as the first queer city guide, For Your Convenience was first published in 1937. Ostensibly a guide to where a gentleman may find ‘relief’ in the metropolis after ‘three cups of tea’, for those ‘in-the-know’ the information held between its pages offers a much more tantalizing prospect.
Now faithfully reproduced for the first time in over eighty years, this fascinating book works as both a wry and playful slice of social history as well as a fascinating insight into the perils and pleasures of a most specific activity for men who loved men.
The book could be enjoyed as an entertaining guide to London’s public conveniences but yet to our more sceptical eye it is patently a guide to where men could meet like-minded men in an era when homosexuality was illegal. It remains a classic whether taken at face value or not.
Hailed as the first queer city guide, For Your Convenience was first published in 1937. Ostensibly a guide to where a gentleman may find ‘relief’ in the metropolis after ‘three cups of tea’, for those ‘in-the-know’ the information held between its pages offers a much more tantalizing prospect.
Now faithfully reproduced for the first time in over eighty years, this fascinating book works as both a wry and playful slice of social history as well as a fascinating insight into the perils and pleasures of a most specific activity for men who loved men.
The book could be enjoyed as an entertaining guide to London’s public conveniences but yet to our more sceptical eye it is patently a guide to where men could meet like-minded men in an era when homosexuality was illegal. It remains a classic whether taken at face value or not.
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The book For Your Convenience - A CLASSIC 1930'S GUIDE TO LONDON LOOS can be found in the following categories:
- Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure > Humour
- Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure > Travel and holiday > Travel and holiday guides
- Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure > Travel and holiday > Travel maps and atlases > Street maps and city plans or atlases
- Interest qualifiers > Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests > Relating to LGBTQIA+ people > Relating to gay people
- Place qualifiers > Europe > Western Europe > United Kingdom, Great Britain > England > South and South East England > London, Greater London
- Time period qualifiers > c 1500 onwards to present day > 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 > Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950
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