In September 1975, actor Peter Wyngarde was arrested (under his real name, Cyril Louis Goldbert) in Gloucester bus station public toilets for gross indecency with Richard Jack Whalley (a truck driver).

Harrold Carswell was convicted of battery for advances he made to an undercover police officer in a Tallahassee men's room.The actor contemplated suicide and faced ruin, only to find that his public was more supportive than even the gay impresario Binkie Beaumont, who had to be gently blackmailed into retaining Gielgud as the star of a pre-London tour. James's Park, Moorfields, the public privies at Lincoln's Inn, and Smithfield prior to the Gordon Riots. Publisher statement This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4. After the murder of playwright Joe Orton by his boyfriend Kenneth Halliwell in 1967, Orton's diaries were published and included explicit accounts of cottaging in London toilets. We will make sure that parents can send their kids to school to get an education, not an indoctrination," DeSantis said at the bill signing.

But overall, they seek to prohibit schools from using a curriculum or discussing topics of gender identity or sexual orientation. The 29-year-old, who is taking part in the UK’s first gay male dating show I Kissed A Boy, remembers at least one instance of being harassed in public, when he was on a busy train on the way home from a concert with his sister. Nicholas de Jongh's play Plague Over England was based on the arrest and conviction of John Gielgud for cottaging and premièred in 2008. These newly surfaced, unseen images are records of a political climate in which homosexuality was prosecuted and illicit sex between men a risky thrill.

Polglaze was asked to do the job, and so began a 20-year occupation during which he visited and photographed the scene of alleged crimes (not only of ‘cottaging’ cases but also robbery, arson, murder, rape and road accidents) — always on behalf of the defending party. In Eastern Europe, for example, the study found that four-fifths of sexual minorities reported concealing their sexual orientation, while in nearby Northern and Western Europe, only about one-third reported doing so.

Tom Driberg, later an MP, who was charged with indecent assault after two men shared his bed in the 1940s.Concealing one’s sexual orientation can lead to significant mental and physical health issues, increased healthcare costs and a dampening of the public visibility necessary for advancing equal rights, said John Pachankis, Ph.