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Description: | Alfred joined the London Transport Police in 1934, when the force was formed. In the years before the war, he served on the vice squad.
At this time, it was a criminal offence for a man to have sex with another man, although homosexuality between women was not illegal, as Alfred explains.
Since it was illegal, there were no clubs or bars where men could go to meet friends or boyfriends. So some gay men used to meet in the toilets in railway stations, since stations were open all night and it was often quiet in the toilets. But it was not necessarily safe for men to meet there.
Alfred recounts that many men were arrested and charged. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Communities Public Services | Temporal: | 1930-1939 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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