According to Nichi Hodgson, the author of the book, « The Curious Case of Dating: From Jane Austen to Tinder, » select pubs in London started to earn reputations as safe havens for LGBTQIA+ people at the time, and while « courting » was still alive and thriving amid the lesbian community, gay men tended to « hook up » more than date.

Additionally, the US was experiencing an era that historians now refer to as the  » Pansy Craze » in the late 1920s and early 1930s; an openly gay era in which LGBTQIA+ people were performing on stages and throwing parties across the country (though especially in Chicago ).

« Massive waves of immigrants from Europe and the American South were arriving in American cities so that white middle-class urbanites became fascinated with exploring the new communities taking place in their midst, whether immigrant, bohemian, black, or gay, » University of Chicago history professor George Chauncey told Chicago Magazine. Lire la suite