Historical Context: "Be Gay Solve Crime"
Chance or Chess? a BBC Sherlock Podcast
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The Subculture of Homosexuality in London
There's the subculture of homosexuality in London specifically, the things that people know to signal to each other. There's certain terms, like they didn't necessarily use the term homosexual. And then there was a lot of references to places and cues, I guess. So it really goes into how broadling in culture they viewed it. They would refer to sodomy indecency, indecent acts, inverts is a common one. But also Mollie houses, which is important, and we'll get to that.
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