For Your Convenience (Paperback)

Paul Pry

ISBN 10: 1999313550 / ISBN 13: 9781999313555

Published by Muswell Press, 2019

About this Item

Paperback. A facsimile guide to the Gents Loos of London published originally in 1937 by Routledge. Hailed as the first queer city guide, For Your Convenience was first published in 1937. Ostensibly a guide to where a gentleman may find relief in the metropolis after three cups of tea, for those in-the-know the information held between its pages offers a much more tantalizing prospect. Now faithfully reproduced for the first time in over eighty years, this fascinating book works as both a wry and playful slice of social history as well as a fascinating insight into the perils and pleasures of a most specific activity for men who loved men.The book could be read at as an entertaining, straight forward guide to Londons public conveniences but yet to our more sceptical eye it is patently a guide to where men could meet like-minded men in an era when homosexuality was illegal. It remains a classic whether taken at face value or not. A facsimile guide to the Gents Loos of London, with map endpapers, published originally in 1937 Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: For Your Convenience (Paperback)
• Publisher: Muswell Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1999313550
• ISBN 13: 9781999313555
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Gough, Philip
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A facsimile guide to the Gents Loos of London, with map endpapers, published originally in 1937 by Routledge. Two members of a Gentleman’s Club begin a conversation over a copy of the Sanitary World and Drainage Observer. The discussion turns to where "relief" may be obtained after drinking tea or lager when walking the streets of London. We are told that the "places that have no attendants afford excellent rendezvous to people who wish to meet out of doors and yet escape the eye of the Busy (police)." The book could be read at as an entertaining, straightforward guide to London’s public conveniences but yet to our more skeptical eye it is patently a guide to where men could meet like-minded men in an era when homosexuality was illegal. It remains a classic whether taken at face value or not.

About the Author

Paul Pry was the pseudonym of Thomas Burke, author of the highly-acclaimed Limehouse Nights and Nights in Town. Several of his short stories became films directed by D. W. Griffith. He died in London in 1945.