Queer City by Peter Ackroyd

Droll provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts Simon Callow Guardian In this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way through the history and experiences of its gay population. In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria wolf dens or public pleasure houses fornices brothels and thermiae hot baths. Then came the Emperor Constantine with his bishops monks and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating permissiveness Paperback softback