PinkNews.The essay, “The Gay Subculture in Early Eighteenth-Century London,” noted that Clement Walker, an English politician, wrote in 1649 about brothels and gay male sex workers.He wrote that there were “new-erected sodoms and spintries at the Mulberry Garden at S.
James’s.”“Sodoms” referred to the brothels and “sprintries” to the gay sex workers, according to the outlet.The Mulberry Garden is now the northwest corner of Buckingham Palace.Rictor noted that people didn’t have the language back then to label same-sex relations — that goes for LGBTQ+ sex workers and non-sex workers.“The commentators upon morality probably could not deal with the concept of homosexuality except by labeling its practitioners with terms borrowed from the.