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Tom Driberg, later an MP, who was charged with indecent assault after two men shared his bed in the 1940s.I Kissed A Boy cast member Mikey, however, is a gay man who says he has not experienced discrimination in public. Louis, Laud Humphreys published a famous and controversial PhD dissertation, Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places, on the tearoom phenomenon, attempting to categorize the diverse social backgrounds and personal motives.

It’s difficult to understand how we got here and why our perception of safety in public has changed so rapidly in just a few years, but it has. On 6 November 1962, actor Wilfrid Brambell was arrested in a toilet in Shepherd's Bush for persistently importuning. The attitude of the police to cruising at any given location varies, according to the time of the day or night, and the level of public concern measured by the number of complaints from local residents and councillors. He resigned after it became clear he was engaging in homosexual activities in a known cottaging area. For heterosexual couples in the West, holding hands with a partner for the first time is a relationship milestone that often happens without much concern for what strangers might think.Days after being fined and pilloried in the press, he walked on to the stage in Liverpool to a standing ovation. This doesn’t have to be a partisan issue; compassion, empathy, and understanding are ideas that hold value for everyone, regardless of their political affiliation.