Headquarters | Gay and lbian Sydney

Contents:

• GAY SNAS SYDNEY
• HEADQUARTERS SYDNEY GAY CISE BAR
• HEADQUARTERS SYDNEY GAY CISE BAR
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

GAY SNAS SYDNEY

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HEADQUARTERS SYDNEY GAY CISE BAR

Headquarters Gay Cise Bar Sydney A meetg and activi place for homosexual mal Sydney. A soothg and fortable environment wh amazg mic and new people to explore, is no major surprise that Headquarters Sydney has been a gay holiday place for many years.

Facilatg pri ocsns jt about every year, and beg an exhilaratg hot spot, Headquarters Sydney uld be amongst the top-vised statns by gay upl huntg for any lotn to know new many people. In a sense, lonial Atralia was found on homophobia. It is certa that Phillip, generally regard as a product of the European Enlightment, uld not have forseen that such a society would prise regnised muni of gay men and lbians.

After all, the ncepts of homosexualy and ‘the homosexual’ were not to be nceived for another 81 years and gay liberatn lay a further 100 years beyond that. It is not until the late 19th century that we have evince of the rise of a nascent male homosexual subculture, particularly Sydney.

HEADQUARTERS SYDNEY GAY CISE BAR

The ‘Cleveland-street prosecutn’ is a reference to a celebrated raid on a London homosexual brothel 1889.

This applied particularly to homosexual men. In the words of historian Garry Wotherspoon, homosexual men were ‘nghty, sick and sful’, and wh regard to the latter, generally rema so.

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

In 1958, the Police Commissner Col Delaney, a vout Catholic wh secury service nnectns and a homophobic obssn, claimed that ‘homosexualy was Atralia’s greatt menace’. The police force took s cue om the Commissner and the post-war perd saw a crack down on homosexuals, wh police even actg as agents provotr at regnised beats. The ‘mp’ muny, as homosexual men me to self-intify, referred to them as ‘pretty policemen’ or ‘lily law’.

Then, 1969, Ivy’s Birdge opened Taylor Square and that marks the begng of Oxford Street as Sydney’s gay ‘Goln Mile’, as other venu opened durg the 1970s. However, society at large, the stereotype of homosexual men as high-pched, limp-wristed queens persisted. Psychiatrists the 1950s and 60s me to see homosexual men as subject to illns and need of help.