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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1395 John "Eleanor" Rykener, a male cross-dressing prostitute, is brought to court in London for "committing that detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in late medieval England's only recorded case on same-sex intercourse (verdict unknown).

ACTUALLY:''illud vitium detestabile, nephandum, et ignominiosum committentes,'' THERE WAS NO VERDICT HE ESCAPED THE BISHOP'S PRISON (ECCLESIASTIC COURT)....CONVENIENTLY AS HIS CLIENTEL INCLUDED KNIGHTS, NUNS, AND....SCHOLARS. WHAT IS INTERESTING IS THAT 'SOPER LANE AT CHEAPSIDE' WHERE THIS ALL TOOK PLACE HAD A NAME CHANGE AFTER THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON TO....'QUEEN STREET'!!!??? SO NUTHIN' GOOD EVER GOES OUTTA STYLE