- Numerous well-known established venues; Urinals were scattered throughout the West End; galleries and bars that were ideal for socializing and making new contacts.
- The parks, the banks of the Seine, public baths, theather galleries, and the arcades;
- Large Balls would attract thousands of cross-dressing revellers to dance halls like Magic-City and the Bal de la Montagne Sainte-Genevieve.
- Homosexual prostitution made its peak between the wars: there were 22,000 known male prostitutes in Berlin in 1929. Many of the young workers had fallen victim to the economic crisis and who (most of the time) did not even regard themselves as homosexual.
- Hitler's rise to power: gay bars were closed, publications were banned and homophile movements were summarily owtlawed.
- During the 1920's, Berlin was home to a vibrant lesbian subculture. An astonishing number, bars, clubs, groups and periodicals catered to women who loved women and cabaret acts dealt explicitly with the theme of lesbian love.
- Billy Tipton is actually a woman and was born Dorothy Tipton; married several times and adopted children (all of whom were unaware of his true sex until after his death in 1989.
- Sophistocated lesbian women in Paris.
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