Buckingham Palace might have been site of a gay brothel in the 1600s
The Gay Subculture in Early Eighteenth-Century London that brothels and gay cruising spots appeared in London in the early 17th century, PinkNews reports.He cited the writings of English politician Clement Walker, who noted in 1649 the existence of “new-erected sodoms and spintries at the Mulberry Garden at S.
James’s.”“Sodoms” referred to brothels, with “spintries” referring to gay sex workers, according to PinkNews.The location of those brothels and sex workers, Mulberry Garden, is now occupied by the northwest corner of Buckingham Palace, the official London residence and administrative headquarters of United Kingdom monarch.In addition, Rictor noted that gay sex in the English capital was usually about “pleasure rather than profit,” and.
