Ĭlapham Common in south London is well-known for gay cruising. In 1992, Conservative MP Alan Amos resigned his parliamentary seat after he was found by the police "engaging in a homosexual act" on the Heath. During an interview on BBC News 24, the singer George Michael, who was allegedly caught cruising on Hampstead Heath by News of the World photographers, claimed that his cruising was de facto private because it occurred at 2am. From the late 1990s, this evolved into minimal active policing, and support from gay sexual health organisations. Hampstead Heath in north London has a long history of gay cruising, which was accompanied by police arrests and attacks. James's Park, Moorfields, the public privies at Lincoln's Inn, and Smithfield prior to the Gordon Riots. Norton (2007) lists a number of London cruising grounds during the Georgian era. The playwright Joe Orton wrote in his posthumously published diaries of his regular cottaging, but he did not incur prosecution.Īreas with a history of gay cruising
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When cruising first became known, it usually took place in public fields, parks, toilets (or " cottages" as they would become known as in the 20th century). Cruising provided a way for gay men to solicit sexual encounters while minimizing the risk of being caught by the police. Prior to the Sexual Offences Act 1967, this illegality meant that many gay men could not live openly as homosexuals. Cruising came about owing to the illegality of homosexual acts in the United Kingdom. So-called "cruising grounds" or "cruising sites", where gay and bisexual men meet at a public place to cruise for sex, originated in the late 1600s (from the earliest known records, although it most likely originated much earlier) and has continued to the present day. He believes that the first gay cruising grounds and gay brothels in London may have sprung up in the early 17th century theatres were sometimes denounced as such by moralists of the time. Rictor Norton, author of Mother Clap's Molly House (a reference to Margaret Clap), is one of the few historians to address the topic. The history of gay cruising is sparsely documented, as the illegality of gay sex meant that those who used such cruising grounds were likely to be discreet about them.