Most history is untold, if you’re not part of the mainstream quite often your history isn’t recorded and remains hidden. This is the situation with LGBTQ history – usually erased, ignored, underground and furtive even after Stonewall which as of writing this has just passed 50 years ago. Many rights have been won since then, but men still meet up in secret places, away from the disapproval of their families and society as a whole. This is a record of such places – formerly called ‘The Great Cottages of England’ about dead cottages (quaintly called T-Rooms in the States!) but now expanded to cruising grounds, in a grand manner that these places deserve.
To be remembered when it wasn’t legal to be gay or queer, and bars and pubs got raided, quite often the only really free queer spaces were these ones.
