What the records say
- When
- 8 Jul 1810
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 51.51° N, 0.12° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Vere Street Coterie.
Summary
Vere Street Coterie: Police raid a "molly house" in London and arrest 27 men for sodomy or attempted sodomy; a man and a boy are eventually hanged on conviction.
Vere Street Coterie
Group of men arrested for sodomy
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.
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