I have always been fond of diving into Queer Street for my amusement, and I found my knowledge of that locality and its inhabitants very useful." In the Sherlock Holmes story "The Second Stain" (1904) Inspector Lestrade chastises a constable, "It's lucky for you, my man, that nothing is missing, or you would find yourself in Queer Street." In the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" and corresponding Granada television series episode, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, episode 3, "Shoscombe Old Place", Watson observes that a character in debt is "by all accounts, so far down Queer Street, he may never find his way back again." In "Women in Love" (1921) by D. H. Lawrence, Gerald Crich's mother says to him "You mind yourself, or you'll find yourelf in Queer Street, that's what will happen to you.
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The expression "in Queer Street" is used in the United Kingdom for someone in financial trouble. Over time, queer acquired a number of meanings related to sexuality and gender, from narrowly meaning "gay or lesbian" to referring to those who are "not heterosexual" to referring to those who are either not heterosexual or not cisgender (those who are LGBT+).Jodi O'Brien, Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (2009), volume 1.
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In 1979, Jude Winter, Tasha Fairbanks, Jane Boston and Deb Trethewy — previously members of Brighton-based bands The Devil’s Dykes and The Bright Girls — formed the radical lesbian feminist theatre collective, Siren. Siren’s shows included Curfew, Mama’s Gone a-Hunting, From The Divine…, Now Wash Your Hands, Pulp and Hotel Destiny. The company made their debut at the Marlborough and toured extensively until disbanding in 1989. They also released two albums, Siren Plays and In Queer Street.
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It's because the bankruptcy courts are here." In Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, Mr Enfield says: "No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask." In Robert Falcon Scott's (1912) diary account of the return of the ill fated, five member South Pole party, he notes - "We have only three days food with us and shall be in Queer Street if we miss the depot.
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Roughead held the title of Writer to Her Majesty's Signet as a Scottish solicitor. As the years progressed, Roughead practised law less and increasingly plied a trade as an unofficial historian of crime. He marks this transition from the year 1889, when at the age of nineteen, he skipped his apprentice work at the law firm of Maclaren and Traquair to attend the trial of Jessie King, the murderous baby- farmer of Stockbridge (an experience he described in his essay "My First Murder: Featuring Jessie King", In Queer Street, 1932). For roughly the next six decades, Roughead attended almost every murder trial of any importance at the High Court of Justiciary.
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