For years, Atralian police had sisted the ath was suici, but 2017 the cint was reclassified as a gay hate killg amid a paful reckong over the vlence endured by gay people the Sydney area durg the 1980s and 1990s and police difference to such crim.
Contents:
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
- 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
- BROTHER OF GAY ANGELENO WHO FELL OM SYDNEY CLIFF 1988 SAYS KILLER SERV NO LENIENCY
- CAMBRIDGE MAN ACHIEV JTICE AS ATRALIAN NVICTED BROTHER’S 1988 GAY HATE CRIME KILLG
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
Lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgenr and tersex Aborigal people reprent diversy wh the already diverse Aborigal culture. But they also belong to some of the most margalised groups Atralia. * gay australian brothers *
On Anzac Day, 1982, five gay men walked up to the Shre of Remembrance Melbourne.
They were om the Gay Ex-Servic Associatn, and they rried a wreath dited to ‘all brothers and sisters who died durg the wars’—but they would never get to lay at the shre. “I don’t know where all the gays and poofters have e om, ” he was later famoly quoted as sayg, “I don’t remember a sgle one om World War Two. “There were thoands of ex-servicemen who were mp, I thk I went through 300 of them myself, ” he told the magaze, a py of which is prerved by the Atralian Lbian and Gay Archiv.
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10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
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In the terts of general happs we re-arranged some room occupants and eventually got all the homos one block, " he said. “A quarter of homosexual s Queensland crimal urts across the war volved airmen, seamen, pilots or others the ary, ” he says.
While Atralia’s official ban on gay and lbian service was repealed 1992, LGBT+ soldiers served long before then. Before repeal, the Atralian Defence Force policy was to remove gay men “sympathetilly and wh discretn”.
But right back to Atralia's early years, Smaal says was easy for gay men to jo the armed forc. “The irony, of urse, was that they end up an all-male environment wh limed opportuny for female pany – the potential for homo-sex had never been greater, ” Smaal says.
BROTHER OF GAY ANGELENO WHO FELL OM SYDNEY CLIFF 1988 SAYS KILLER SERV NO LENIENCY
Sometim was latent homosexualy, sometim otherwise ‘straight’ men found themselv havg sex wh other men. “It was amazg the number of gay people the POW mp, ” the Atralian serviceman told Outrage, “well not so much gay as bisexual – bee they uldn’t get a woman they’d have a man.
Ined, the forc of World War One and World War Two may have been a surprisgly liberatg place for gay men and women.
CAMBRIDGE MAN ACHIEV JTICE AS ATRALIAN NVICTED BROTHER’S 1988 GAY HATE CRIME KILLG
Gay bars Kgs Cross bulged wh servicemen and sailors as warships me to port. There are multiple s of veterans beg arrted for homosexualy offenc after the war, tellg thori they were pursug sir disvered the armed forc.
After the war, a gay bar lled ‘Diggers’ even opened Sydney.
“I do not believe I have ever loved a woman more eply than my mate, ” said one Atralian WWII veteran, who went on to assert the relatnship wasn't homosexual. The l between gay love and straight mathip were difficult to discern for some.