Vere Street Coterie
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vere-street-coterie-178-17226748
title:
Vere Street Coterie
text:
The Vere Street Coterie was a group of men arrested at a molly house in Vere Street, London in 1810 for sodomy and attempted sodomy. Eight men were eventually convicted. Two of them were hanged and six were pilloried for this offence. Along with Oscar Wilde's imprisonment for a similar offence, this episode was one of the major events in gay history in England during the 19th century. The White Swan on Vere Street in London was established as a molly house in early 1810 by two men, James Cook an
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Group of men arrested for sodomy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vere_Street_Coterie
date created:
2005-07-19T14:02:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T20:44:09Z
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