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On the 28 April 1870, two middle-class men, dressed in full drag, were arrested outside the Royal Strand Theatre in London, where they had attended a show and (cue: gasps) used the ladies' bathroom. They were thrust into jail, crudely examined – although no longer punishable by death, sodomy was a very serious crime – and soon became the subjects of a lengthy court case that held the capital enthralled. Dubbed the "he-she ladies" by the newspapers whose front covers they graced, they were,…
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