Molly House

A molly house in 18th-century English was a tavern or private room where homosexual and cross-dressing men could meet each other and possible sexual partners. Molly houses were one precursor to some types of gay bars.

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Famous quotes containing the words molly and/or house:

    “Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch;
    Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch.”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    “The door is opening. A man you have never seen enters the room.
    He tells you that it is time to go, but that you may stay,
    If you wish. You reply that it is one and the same to you.
    It was only later, after the house had materialized elsewhere,
    That you remembered you forgot to ask him what form the change would take.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)