Introduction: This is London -- Regulation -- Geographies of public sex -- The pink shilling -- The baths -- A room of one's own -- "Piccadilly palare" : the world of the West End poof -- "London's bad boys" : homosex, manliness, and money in working-class culture -- "The heart in exile" : respectability, restraint, and the city -- Sexual difference and Britishness -- Daring to speak whose name? : queer cultural politics -- Conclusion.