Molly Houses: Gay Bars in 18th-Century Britain

I have this suspicion that bars like that existed forever in cities. Usually tolerated by being studiously ignored. Except when there is a big migration to the cities by vastly more conservative rural people. First thing to the new comers try to do is shut down the dance halls, gay bars. Clamp down on brothels and street walkers. Unmarried people shacking up. And make everyone go to church.

That sort of thing is behind everything from conservative Hindu's harassing unmarried couples in India, to prohibition, the movie code in the 1930-1960's. Probably the move from urban to suburban in the US is behind the shift back to conservative mores.

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I consider that a feature: it’s chaff for the tracking radar.

I cannot avoid being tracked (despite all the barriers I have put up to reduce it) so it’s always good to poison their data. And as I happen not to be gay, adding that into the mix is in my interest.

I was looking at pressure cookers on amazon and got ads for full figured bras for a month afterwards.

OK, we've neutralized the title above.

Article is interesting though.