Regency London

In george and london, you wouldn't have understood yourself as a gay man. There were molly houses all round london, which weren't technically brothels. They were more like meeting places for gay men. And there is certainly hustling going on there. Although george an london's often portrayed in a kind of bridgeton esquay, everyone's just ripping the bloomers off one another. But ultimately, these were really brutal, patriarchal, capitalist societies. Their play in the hands that they were dealt.