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Please have a browse through the site and add the things you're interested in. It is unclear exactly what happened but Beckford was ostracised by society and went into self-imposed exile on the Continent, helping later to put Portugal on the tourist map. Image - Beckford's Tower. From toColonel Blathwayt turned Eagle House into a refuge for suffragettes who had been imprisoned and force-fed to allow them to rest and recuperate.

His daughter, Mary Blathwayt, also a suffragette, bar in her diary that Annie Kenneyone of the few working-class suffragettes, bar beds and slept with various women. Historians are divided as to whether this should be taken literally or whether the suffragettes were engaging in lesbian relations, as was suggested by enemies at the time.

We shall never know for sure, but it is clear that the suffragettes formed close bonds with gay other during their struggle for votes for women. Image - Eagle House, credit Robert Howes. His studio in Kingston House became a meeting point for gay men, some of them servicemen. In Novemberthe police raided the flat and arrested McBean and a sixteen-year-old youth.

Police investigations led to a chain of arrests and McBean stood trial with five other men at Winchester Assizes in March McBean was sentenced to four years hard labour. At least one of the men implicated and possibly two committed suicide and the case, which was well-publicised in the local press, made a lasting impression on at least one young gay man growing up in Bath at the time.

Because of the involvement of servicemen, it is seen by some historians as a precursor of the homosexual spy witch-hunts of the s and s. Image - Kingston House, credit Robert Howes. Prior to the decriminalisation of male homosexuality inone of the few places where gay men could meet others was the public toilet. In Aprilnine youths were tried and sentenced at Bath magistrates court for blackmail and violence against gay men whom they met in the gents at the Charlotte Street car park.

In this case, unusually, the police chose to prosecute the blackmailers and gave immunity to the gay men, who acted as witnesses. Image - Charlotte Street public toilet, credit Robert Howes. Although not openly advertising itself as such, the pub was well-known locally and probably benefitted from its proximity to the Theatre Royal and the bath extended gay theatrical folk.

Image - Garrick's Head, credit Robert Howes. It gradually lost its popularity and closed in At the trial it soon emerged that the bath had been charged simply because of its title and the magistrates dismissed the case against it. Image - Guildhall, credit Robert Howes. In more recent times the Registry Office in the Guildhall saw the first civil partnership in and the first same-sex marriage in This article and the featured photographs where credited are by Robert Howes.

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