the-signs-of-two:Things that will probably haunt you until the end of time:1) One of the...

the-signs-of-two:

Things that will probably haunt you until the end of time:

1) One of the world’s first pieces of published gay erotica (Sins of the Cities of the Plain, published 1881) prominently features an upper-class homosexual with an address on Baker Street.

2) The Criterion Bar, where Watson meets Stamford in canon, was in this period known as ‘a great centre for inverts’ according to George Ives.

3) Some of the most notable haunts for gay men in London in the 1880’s and 1890’s were restaurants and hotels in the West End, theatres and music halls in Soho, gentlemen’s clubs near Pall Mall and turkish baths (particularly on Jermyn Street), i.e. LITERALLY ALL THE PLACES THEY CANONICALLY GO TOGETHER!!!