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While we're on the subject of the underground gay scene: did you know the Ottoman and North African world was the DeFacto mecca for European gays? As I read European literati used to travel to places like Tunis or Egypt where there was a public openness towards homosexuality, or more so than Europe. And also porking young boys in the butt, but that's another thing.

I don't know how relevant that antiquated piece of information would be at the end of the day though, since that would have been over a century ago. But if I were to imagine a PoW-contemporary underground gay scene in Europe then I'd imagine hangers-on trappings of Orientalism.
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I skimmed around last night to find out exactly where the gay movement was before Stonewall, and I found some allusions to (but no direct explanation of) a sort of 18th century version of the Stonewall riots that happened in London. 

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_house]Here is some more info though [/url]