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Today's research includes: The Labouchere Amendment and Thomas Neill Cream. Also rewatching the first part of Granada's The Master Blackmailer. Given it was the early 90s I'm actually surprised by a show like that being so sympathetic towards queer people even if it was a very bleak storyline. It's not stated in the canon of course but I think it's guaranteed that someone like Milverton would absolutely have blackmailed queer men and quite probably driven some of them to kill themselves. And I think that is a big part of the reason why Holmes despises him so much. Meanwhile, however much he fears Moriarty, he doesn't treat Moriarty with that same revulsion. It's all very... suggestive.