The ath of Dr Dunn: the gay hate crime that changed Atralia | Atralian books | The Guardian

Contents:

• THE ATH OF DR DUNN: THE GAY HATE CRIME THAT CHANGED ATRALIA
• TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
• UNCLE DUNN LOCKE & KEY: IS DUNN GAY THE NETFLIX ORIGAL SERI?
• GAY DUNN
• TIM DUNN GAY? DANNY GREEN ADDRS RUMORS THAT WIFE AMY DUNN OUTED TEAMMATE AS BISEXUAL DURG DIVORCE BATTLE [VIDEO]
• EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS
• IS TIM DUNN GAY? WIFE AMY DUNN REPORTEDLY OUTS HBAND AS BISEXUAL DURG DIVORCE PROCEEDGS [REPORT]
• PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”
• DENISE GAY DUNN OBUARY

THE ATH OF DR DUNN: THE GAY HATE CRIME THAT CHANGED ATRALIA

”This is how a wns scribed the fal sends of Dr Gee Dunn’s life, as told to the ABC 2005, 33 years after the 41-year-old Universy of Alai amic drowned the River Torrens and posthumoly set motn the zegeist of gay law reform 10 May 1972 ath of Dr Gee Ian Ogilvie Dunn – spected to be at the hands of Alai’s police vice squad, at a time when homosexualy was outlawed every state Atralia – is an event enshred the narrative of the South Atralian LBTQI Christos Tslkas and his partner Wayne van r Stelt first learned of Dunn’s revered place SA’s legal history back the mid-1980s, when the two young Melbourne universy stunts ma their first road trip together to Alai. “I remember gog to the Candlelight, which was one of the old queer clubs there, and hearg the story about what happened down at the river – hearg about the gay bashgs and police bashgs, ” he says.

”Legislative ground breakerThe background story documentg Dunn’s life is pellg, as historian Tim Reev n whe upper middle class, Atralian raised and Oxbridge ted history amic lived a secret life, as most gay men were forced to do, growg up the 1950s and 1960s has spent the better part of three s documentg the Dunn se, he served as a nsultant on the Watershed project and will be releasg his book The Death of Doctor Dunn at the Alai Wrer’s ftival on 9 March, where is beg lnched by David ath toll om Atralia’s long-standg crimalisatn of homosexualy – through murr, manslghter and suici – was far om unique the English speakg world, he says, but the rapidy of legislative chang followg Dunn’s ath was a world game police officers were early spected as the culprs who tossed Dunn, a man who spe his tn at Melbourne Grammar – an exclive school which prid self as much on s athletic prows as s scholastic rigour – was unable to an ternal police vtigatn prompted wispread public skepticism, Stland Yard tectiv were lled to vtigate penntly – but the subsequent fdgs tabled a parliamentary quiry found that “there was no real tentn of g anyone’s ath – this was merely a high-spired olic which went wrong. That seemgly good samaran was Bevan Spencer von Eem, subsequently nvicted of the abductn, sexual torture and murr of 15-year-old schoolboy Richard Kelv, and the spected killer of at least two other gay men whose s have never been solved.

TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

“All gay and lbian and transgenr people are uniquely aware of the fact that we live our liv subject to the law, and that the laws have a profound fluence on the way you n behave publicly – what the lims of your love are and how they are fed legally.

In fact, as society is now much more open to people no matter their orientatn, we have seen a ton more athlet, both active and retired, e out and adm that they are homosexuals, and 's absolutely a great thg. This list will look at some of the most high profile exampl of pro athlet who have had mors about beg gay surroundg them, but aga, none of those are nfirmed and even if they were nfirmed, they would be somethg to celebrate. Word received by iends this cy om the bedsi of Miss Gay Dunn who has been ill at her home New York cy for some time past wh lung trouble and a plitn of diseas nveys the sad telligence that she is slowly dyg.

UNCLE DUNN LOCKE & KEY: IS DUNN GAY THE NETFLIX ORIGAL SERI?

Durg a Tuday morng terview, San Anton Spurs star Danny Green addrsed mors that Tim Dunn’s wife, Amy Dunn, may have outed his teammate as gay durg the uple’s ongog divorce an terview wh “The Breakfast Club, ” New York-based rad statn Power 105. Acrdg to the blog, a source close to the divorce battle claimed that Tim Dunn had been a gay relatnship sce llege, and that his alleged “lover” had lived wh the Spurs star and his wife for the first two years of their marriage. 1New Narrative is monly regnized as a queer avant-gar found San Francis the late 1970s, a mostly-gay wrg scene wh a characteristic proclivy for lightg sex, Marxist polics, and pop culture.

Both Boone and Glück wrote appreciatively about Dunn’s 1944 say, and their reflectns on “The Homosexual Society” suggt a shared spicn about gay separatism, inty polics, and the modifitn of (gay) culture.

GAY DUNN

An unrstandg of homosexualy as a cultural iated paranoia and spicn about the proximy of those sexual outsirs who would be targeted by McCarthyism and the Hoe Un-Amerin Activi Commtee.

4“The Homosexual Society” is brief, surprisg, and plex, and Dunn returned to the say throughout his life, alternately clarifyg, refg, and pletely alterg the say’s arguments through footnot and terviews. A mornist through and through, Dunn mak a public announcement of his homosexualy, and at the same time out agast mp, the cult of sexualy and s ntempt for ‘jam, ’ along wh the Beat ntempt for the square, the Jewish ntempt for the goy – favor of a mon humany. 5Dunn argu that the e that mt be won is for all human begs – a plete human eedom that, crilly, nnot be achieved whout reckong wh the reprsn of sexualy and unmakg all mory associatns, cludg homosexual inty.

This will clu the open discsn of homosexualy lerature, and Dunn nam Herman Melville and Marcel Prot as exampl of thors who wrote about (their own) homosexualy but ultimately transcend homosexualy as a theme. 4 Includg the founrs of New Narrative, later admirers of Dunn were keen to embrace Dunn’s urage wrg the say, even as they ignored or merely set asi the challenge his msage put to the polil efforts of Gay Liberatn and later articulatns of sexual polics.

TIM DUNN GAY? DANNY GREEN ADDRS RUMORS THAT WIFE AMY DUNN OUTED TEAMMATE AS BISEXUAL DURG DIVORCE BATTLE [VIDEO]

6Today, pendg on their accs to different versns of the say and related mentary by Dunn, ntemporary rears have the luxury of gag om “The Homosexual Society” a number of overlappg and potentially even ntradictg msag about homosexualy, society, and what might mean to be “” . In this say, I first trace the history of “The Homosexual Society”, om Dunn’s posn of the say, through his wrten mentary of 1959, and his reflectns wh younger gay poets the 1970s. My hope is that revisg “The Homosexual Society” and s attendant archive might open up Dunn’s say to new meangs, thereby ntug the procs of gossipg about this already very storied say.

In Queerg Cold War Poetry, Eric Keenaghan aptly intifi Dunn’s strategy as a “fierce antomianism that renred homosexualy, like any other inty, a merely sendary ncern” (Keenaghan 88). The metaphor of the closet do not f Dunn’s purpos here, as the poet tentnally fi revealg himself to be a homosexual favor of admtg his feelgs and his experienc, molg for his rears the third posn he poed, somewhere outsi of a bary of “out” or “, ” “homosexual” or “straight.

EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS

8What “The Homosexual Society” means to offer, then, is not so much public ttimony of the tth of Dunn’s (sexual) inty, but, stead, an thorized acunt of an alternate realy of homosexualy. 9What Dunn also lls a “cult, ” the pany of homosexuals he mov wh, and even temporarily embrac, provis him wh a refuge om a society that would otherwise vlently disown him and grants his poetry a potency so strong that match that of the charist.

“The Homosexual Society” is not merely an argument but a social, polil, even spirual arena which Dunn would e to better unrstand his evolvg self, a special entry Dunn’s mythopoetics.

IS TIM DUNN GAY? WIFE AMY DUNN REPORTEDLY OUTS HBAND AS BISEXUAL DURG DIVORCE PROCEEDGS [REPORT]

14Dunn wrote “The Homosexual Society” years before the publitn of Aled Ksey’s Sexual Behavr the Human Male or the foundg of the Mattache Society, or his volvement wh Rob Blaser and Jack Spicer durg the Berkeley Renaissance. Instead, after the say’s publitn 1944 he plemented his say wh footnot, anecdot, orig stori, and historil rrponnc so that the say ntued to have an evolvg relatnship to ntemporary attus about homosexualy, art, and polics.

PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”

7 But regardls of Krim’s choice not to reprt the say, 8 his solicatn of “The Homosexual Society” suggts the extent to which the Beats were already monly unrstood as a “gang” of sexual outsirs – nonnformists, queer rebels, and those unrepentant homosexuals who refed to be recuperated by rpectabily polics or silenced by pathology and normaly. 15Wrten a year before he would meet greater fame through The Openg of the Field and Donald Allen’s anthology, Dunn’s 1959 mentary lays out his sthg opns about the Beats and their ializatn of the homosexual as social pariah. But for now, wrten on the verge of his big break, Dunn’s 1959 footnot nstute part of the archive of his velopment as a wrer and his changg relatnship to different poetic schools and disurs of homosexualy.

9 Dunn’s experience of a separate homosexual social realy cled him to believe both the anti-tablishment and revolutnary power of ristg a normative sexualy (and by extensn the social nformy of the Atomic Age), but he also imag that anti-social attu reachg, at s lim, Hell self. If “The Homosexual Society” slyly offers a view onto a utopian otherworld, this footnote glanc the oppose directn, permanently attachg to “The Homosexual Society” stori of two lerary thori who refed to advance an open discsn of homosexualy.

DENISE GAY DUNN OBUARY

As a gossip and a poet, Dunn was an termediary between several spher, drawg back the curta on a homosexual unrground and the var enomic and stutnal challeng that worked agast those who would speak eely.

But as much as Dunn is willg to evce for his rears the extent of the problem of stutnalized homophobia, his unwillgns to name nam suggts the dangers that still threatened anyone who spoke too eely. ” The were the years of Gay Liberatn, when wrers and rears sought to unearth historil precents for a “gay sensibily” and velop a tradn of gay wrg that nnected the prent to the past. At the first-ever Gay Liberatn readg on a llege mp, 10 Dunn spoke about the most heated part of his exchange wh Ransom: “He said he didn’t know what the law was, but he felt that homosexuals should be [...

Fag Rag reprted “The Homosexual Society” 1973, which was troduced by edor Charley Shively: “Robert Dunn published this article almost thirty years ago Dwight MacDonald’s movement magaze, Polics. 22Still, Dunn found more to say about “The Homosexual Society” terviews wh younger gay wrers – wh Robert Peters and Pl Trachtenberg 1976 and Steve Abbott and Aaron Shur 1978/1979, the latter of which would be published Wston Leyland’s Gay Sunshe and Abbott’s own New Narrative magaze Soup.

Another poet of that society was Philip Lamantia, a very betiful young man three of four years younger than I was, who was tryg to make this gay scene, mixg a high society voice wh affectatns borrowed om the gay world of the 1930s. Dunn says, “‘The Homosexual Society’ article of 1944 arose om my reactn to a fashnable gay party and seeg a young poet, seeg what I feared I might be too, his affected voice” (Dunn 2014, 90). As Dunn remembers durg the Gay Liberatn readg of 1971, Agee’s “very tic piece, ” which cri the mercializatn of Black culture vividly racist terms, 13 remd him of “people very much closer to my own world, who were very acceptable provid they were funny, who were very acceptable providg they were really jt [...