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in Sun among Cities (2002) [from police statements 8.1.27] 175: Police observed a series of parties in a Fitzroy Square basement flat, resort of what are known as ‘nancy boys’.at nancy boy, n.
in Sun among Cities (2002) [from police statements 8.1.27] 175: Police observed a series of parties in a Fitzroy Square basement flat, resort of what are known as ‘nancy boys’. in Sun among Cities (2002) [from police statements 8.1.27] 175: Their appearance and manners made P.C. Spencer think ‘they were undoubtedly of the Nancy type’.at nancy, adj.
in Sun among Cities (2002) [police statement PC John Gavin] 181: They were both powdered and painted ... smelt strongly of perfume and spoke very effeminately. By their behaviour and appearance I believe them to be ‘West End Poofs’.at poof, n.
in Sun among Cities (2002) [from police record 8.5.35] 85: It is a nice night for a bit of fun but the cottage [meaning urinal] is full up.at cottage, n.
Sun among Cities intro. 8: Cyril L. moved to London in 1932, at the age of 20. [...] In 1934 he wrote to Morris, his affair.at affair, n.2
(ref. to 1920s–30s) Sun among Cities 219: We treated them as a joke. We had various names for them, not very nice names [...] ‘pansies’ ... ‘brown hatters’.at brown-hatter, n.
(con. 1950s) Sun among Cities 181: The meanings cohering around the ‘West End Poof’ were embodied most clearly in popular characterisations of ‘Dilly Boys’ – for John Bull variously ‘effeminate looking people’, ‘painted and scented boys’ and ‘West End pests’.at Dilly boy (n.) under Dilly, the, n.
Sun among Cities 207: The Dilly Boys were the popular image of queer London.at Dilly boy (n.) under Dilly, the, n.
(ref. to 1926) in Sun among Cities 210: Gertie was 26 when he was arrested in Piccadilly in 1926. [...] Detective Pearse told the London Sessions that ‘since 1922 for similar offences in the West End and south London he had been ordered five terms each of 6 months’.at Gertie, n.
(ref. to 1950s) in Sun among Cities 194: We used to put powder on, thought we looked absolutely marvellous, the eye brows were plucked to hell, all shaped, and slap.at all to hell under hell, n.
Sun among Cities 92: The Monkey Walk, or the terrace below the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, the Meat Rack in the 1930s.at meat rack, n.
(ref. to 1920s–30s) in Sun among Cities 219: We treated them as a joke. We had various names for them, not very nice names. If you wanted to describe a gay man with a gay man we would say, ‘he’s pushing shit up a hill’ .at push shit up a hill (v.) under push, v.
Sun among Cities intro. 17: The quean’s difference lay in his womanlike character.at quean, n.
(ref. to 1937) in Sun among Cities 199: When Charles C, a 21 year-old vanboy, was arrested in a club in 1937, he told police ‘they call me cissie boy’.at sissy-boy (n.) under sissy, n.
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