Simon Avery is Reader in Modern Literature and Culture and Co-director of the Queer London Research Forum at the University of Westminster, UK.Katherine M. Graham is Visiting Lecturer and Co-director of the Queer London Research Forum at the University of Westminster, UK.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsSection 1: Framing Queer London1. Structuring and Interpreting Queer Spaces of LondonSimon Avery (University of Westminster, UK)2. Queer Temporalities, Queer LondonsKatherine M. Graham (University of Westminster, UK)3. Mapping This VolumeSimon Avery (University of Westminster, UK) and Katherine M. Graham (University of Westminster, UK)Section 2: Exploring Queer London4. London, AIDS and the 1980sMatt Cook (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)5. Bigot Geography: Queering Geopolitics in BrixtonEmma Spruce (London School of Economics, UK)6. Representations of Queer London in the Fiction of Sarah WatersPaulina Palmer (Warwick University, UK)7. Are Drag Kings Still Too Queer for London? From the Nineteenth-Century Impersonator to the Drag King of TodayKayte Stokoe (Warwick University, UK)8. Claude McKay: Queering Spaces of Black Radicalism in Interwar LondonGemma Romain (University College London, UK) and Caroline Bressey (University College London, UK)9. The British Society of the Study of Sex Psychology: ‘Advocating the Cultural of Unnatural and Criminal Practices’?Leslie A. Hall (University College London, UK)10. Cannibal London: Racial Discourses, Pornography and Male-Male Desire in Late-Victorian BritainSilvia Antosa (University of Enna "Kore", Italy)11. ‘Famous for the paint she put on her face’: London’s Painted Poofs and the Self-Fashioning of Francis BaconDominic Janes (Keele University, UK)12. Mingling with the Ungodly: Simeon Solomon in Queer Victorian LondonCarolyn Conroy (Indepent Scholar, UK)13. Alan Hollinghurst’s Fictional Ways of Queering LondonBart Eeckhout (University of Antwerp, Belgium)14. Sink Street: The Sapphic World of Pre-Chinatown SohoAnne Witchard (University of Westminster, UK)15. Chasing Community: From Old Compton Street to the Online World of GrindrMarco Venturi (University College London, UK)16. Being ‘There’: Contemporary London, Facebook and Queer Historical FeelingSam McBean (Queen Mary University of London, UK)BibliographyIndex

One of the strengths of this book is that it opens up fresh and inclusive ways of regarding every city and every village.

Simon Avery is Reader in Modern Literature and Culture and Co-director of the Queer London Research Forum at the University of Westminster, UK.Katherine M. Graham is Visiting Lecturer and Co-director of the Queer London Research Forum at the University of Westminster, UK.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsSection 1: Framing Queer London1. Structuring and Interpreting Queer Spaces of LondonSimon Avery (University of Westminster, UK)2. Queer Temporalities, Queer LondonsKatherine M. Graham (University of Westminster, UK)3. Mapping This VolumeSimon Avery (University of Westminster, UK) and Katherine M. Graham (University of Westminster, UK)Section 2: Exploring Queer London4. London, AIDS and the 1980sMatt Cook (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)5. Bigot Geography: Queering Geopolitics in BrixtonEmma Spruce (London School of Economics, UK)6. Representations of Queer London in the Fiction of Sarah WatersPaulina Palmer (Warwick University, UK)7. Are Drag Kings Still Too Queer for London? From the Nineteenth-Century Impersonator to the Drag King of TodayKayte Stokoe (Warwick University, UK)8. Claude McKay: Queering Spaces of Black Radicalism in Interwar LondonGemma Romain (University College London, UK) and Caroline Bressey (University College London, UK)9. The British Society of the Study of Sex Psychology: ‘Advocating the Cultural of Unnatural and Criminal Practices’?Leslie A. Hall (University College London, UK)10. Cannibal London: Racial Discourses, Pornography and Male-Male Desire in Late-Victorian BritainSilvia Antosa (University of Enna "Kore", Italy)11. ‘Famous for the paint she put on her face’: London’s Painted Poofs and the Self-Fashioning of Francis BaconDominic Janes (Keele University, UK)12. Mingling with the Ungodly: Simeon Solomon in Queer Victorian LondonCarolyn Conroy (Indepent Scholar, UK)13. Alan Hollinghurst’s Fictional Ways of Queering LondonBart Eeckhout (University of Antwerp, Belgium)14. Sink Street: The Sapphic World of Pre-Chinatown SohoAnne Witchard (University of Westminster, UK)15. Chasing Community: From Old Compton Street to the Online World of GrindrMarco Venturi (University College London, UK)16. Being ‘There’: Contemporary London, Facebook and Queer Historical FeelingSam McBean (Queen Mary University of London, UK)BibliographyIndex

One of the strengths of this book is that it opens up fresh and inclusive ways of regarding every city and every village.

Simon Avery is Reader in Modern Literature and Culture and Co-director of the Queer London Research Forum at the University of Westminster, UK.Katherine M. Graham is Visiting Lecturer and Co-director of the Queer London Research Forum at the University of Westminster, UK.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsSection 1: Framing Queer London1. Structuring and Interpreting Queer Spaces of LondonSimon Avery (University of Westminster, UK)2. Queer Temporalities, Queer LondonsKatherine M. Graham (University of Westminster, UK)3. Mapping This VolumeSimon Avery (University of Westminster, UK) and Katherine M. Graham (University of Westminster, UK)Section 2: Exploring Queer London4. London, AIDS and the 1980sMatt Cook (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)5. Bigot Geography: Queering Geopolitics in BrixtonEmma Spruce (London School of Economics, UK)6. Representations of Queer London in the Fiction of Sarah WatersPaulina Palmer (Warwick University, UK)7. Are Drag Kings Still Too Queer for London? From the Nineteenth-Century Impersonator to the Drag King of TodayKayte Stokoe (Warwick University, UK)8. Claude McKay: Queering Spaces of Black Radicalism in Interwar LondonGemma Romain (University College London, UK) and Caroline Bressey (University College London, UK)9. The British Society of the Study of Sex Psychology: ‘Advocating the Cultural of Unnatural and Criminal Practices’?Leslie A. Hall (University College London, UK)10. Cannibal London: Racial Discourses, Pornography and Male-Male Desire in Late-Victorian BritainSilvia Antosa (University of Enna "Kore", Italy)11. ‘Famous for the paint she put on her face’: London’s Painted Poofs and the Self-Fashioning of Francis BaconDominic Janes (Keele University, UK)12. Mingling with the Ungodly: Simeon Solomon in Queer Victorian LondonCarolyn Conroy (Indepent Scholar, UK)13. Alan Hollinghurst’s Fictional Ways of Queering LondonBart Eeckhout (University of Antwerp, Belgium)14. Sink Street: The Sapphic World of Pre-Chinatown SohoAnne Witchard (University of Westminster, UK)15. Chasing Community: From Old Compton Street to the Online World of GrindrMarco Venturi (University College London, UK)16. Being ‘There’: Contemporary London, Facebook and Queer Historical FeelingSam McBean (Queen Mary University of London, UK)BibliographyIndex

One of the strengths of this book is that it opens up fresh and inclusive ways of regarding every city and every village.