![]() He was fined ten Marks and five Noble, while John Burgess was fined five Marks. ![]() Alongside this conviction, Taylor was accused of "keeping a disorderly House, and entertaining wicked abandon'd Men, who commit sodomitical Practices". Importantly John Burgess, Taylor’s lover, was also charged for assaulting Taylor, so while seemingly a consensual relationship, in the eyes of the law their actions were deemed criminal. At the trail it was said that Taylor “was seen to sit on the Lap of John Burgess, when they committed such indecent and effeminate Actions, as are not to be mentioned”. Approximate location of Julius Caesar Taylor's Molly House just off Tottenham Court Road from John Roque 1746 mapĪs well as being the owner of a Molly House, Taylor was clearly part of this gay subculture as he was arrested in 1728 and found guilty of having “indecent relations with another man”, John Burgess. Through this they created their own family networks, adding to the long tradition of LGBTQ+ people creating a chosen family that is more accepting and open about identity and sexuality. ![]() The mollies had ‘children, sisters and husbands’. Moll and thirty-nine other men, some of them dressed as queens and shepherdesses, fought with police officers before being taken before the Justices of the Peace still dressed in their costumes.Ī description from the journalist Ned Ward in his book ‘ The Secret History of London Clubs’ published in 1709 described that the men referred to each other as sisters and using female pronouns. Flying Horse Moll frequented Julius Caesar Taylor’s House and obviously knew London’s LGBTQ+ scene well, having been previously arrested during a raid on New Year’s Eve drag party at a house near Drury Lane. ![]() The females names they were ‘christened’ with were called ‘Maiden names’ and there are several examples from criminal trails: Primrose Mary (a butcher in Butchers Row) Orange Deb (Martin Macintosh, an orange seller) Nurse Mitchell (a barber) and Miss Sweet Lips (a country grocer). As with many Molly Houses, Julius Caesar Taylor held initiation rituals for visitors that included being given a female name and having a glass of gin thrown in your face. ![]()
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