John Rykener
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John Rykener, known also as Eleanor Rykener, was a transvestite prostitute working mainly in fourteenth-century London, but also active in Oxford. He was arrested in 1395 for buggery and interrogated; the records have survived, the only surviving records of legal process from that age which concern same-sex intercourse. During his interrogation, Rykener claimed to have had many clients including priests, monks and nuns; he said that he preferred priests because they paid better than others.
