Reverg the Gay Village: A Comparative Historil Geography of Urban Change and Planng Toronto and Sydney | SprgerLk

Contents:

• THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY
• GAY DATG IN SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WAL
• SYDNEY: GAY VILLAGE
• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• GAYS NOT WELE: THE MSAGE OM SHOPS ONE OF SYDNEY'S PKT SUBURBS
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• REVERG THE GAY VILLAGE: A COMPARATIVE HISTORIL GEOGRAPHY OF URBAN CHANGE AND PLANNG TORONTO AND SYDNEY
• GAY DATG SYDNEY
• LBIANS HISTORILLY SEEN AS ‘FAIR GAME’ SYDNEY, ADVOTE TELLS GAY HATE QUIRY

THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY

A gay gui to SydneyQueer eye on SydneyMeet the crew: Heaps GayWhether you're gay, straight or somewhere between, you'll have a heaps good time at one of Sydney's favoure queer and clive parti.The Beard TIf you want to see Sydney at her absolute bt, go for a drk at Redfern’s neighbourhood art bar, the Beard T.SlyfoxCome here for regular queer nights, h band gigs, and the legends om Bad Deep dog a bi-monthly party.Sydney's nightlife, nowSydney’s nightlife scene has shifted dramatilly sce the ntroversial lockout laws were first imposed March of 2014. If you’re keen to really make a night of , keep an eye on the lik of Heaps Gay, Poof Doof, Hoe of Mce, Honcho Disko and Birdge (as well as the social media-elive Kooky) to fd out when their next soiree start planng your next night out, read on for our gui to some of Sydney’s favoure gay clubs, pubs and bars. The ColombianOpen 9am ‘til 6am every day — y, you read that right — this sprawlg Oxford St hnt n always be unted on for a tipple the early 117-125 Oxford St, DarlghurstYou n fd all the tails for this year's Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras here.

GAY DATG IN SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WAL

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” Followers were enuraged to “share if you are agast gay people” and to uniend him “if you support the clowns” is, unfortunately, a fallacy that post-marriage equaly Atralia is safe for LGBTQI people – even the gay bubble of Sydney's pkt APWhen challenged about his homophobia, the owner of kebab shop Yilmaz Grill & Bakehoe, Iftekhar Hasan, rpond: "none of my ctomers are gay" and claimed he “won't lose a cent” if gay people don't vis his shop. Unfortable wh this form of ncel culture on my doorstep, I watched wh bewilrment at Hale & Hearty’s Facebook posts, one mute sayg gay people weren’t wele, the next sayg they Mark Da Costa told me started bee a vegan "outed" and attacked him as a Tmp supporter. Another post says “how quickly the gay muny fot we put our reputatn on the le 2017 [ the postal vote] knowg was a risk nsirg our ctomer base was shared equally between the lol Hillsong muny and gay people” he sists that ban was “only aimed at the vile sectn of the gay muny abg .

“Numbers aren’t what they were two weeks ago – but the brand awarens is fely massive, ” he is, unfortunately, a fallacy that post-marriage equaly Atralia is safe for LGBTQI people – even the gay bubble of Sydney's pkt suburbs. From drag palac at the Gay Goln Mile to queer-ky digs, here are 10 bars and clubs Sydney that will wele you wh a warm embrace:UniversalThe Beard TSecret GarnChg-a-lgsThe ImperialPalmsStonewall HotelThe ColombianThe Berford HotelRed Rattler1.

SYDNEY: GAY VILLAGE

As a treasure trove of live performanc, drag and beret shows, DJs and parti hosted by groups such as Honcho Disko, Canned F and Heaps Gay, the Imperial Erskeville is the perfect spot for a good feed and boogie. FROM the remote, sandy shor of the Tiwi Islands the Northern Terrory to the sequ and feather saturated streets of the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras New South Tiwi Islands Sistagirls — “queer” or transgenr Aborigal people tradnally known as yimpni — might have a feelg they’re not Kansas ’s the first time the Sistagirls have ma the trip to the natn’s gay pal to take part the biggt and most extravagant celebratn of the LGBTI muny the they’ll be makg their but extraordary style wh a twist, on-board the Northern Terrory’s float, at the mardi gras para on group of about 30 sistagirls has travelled more than 4000km om the Tiwi Islands, via Darw, to Sydney overnight ahead of Mardi Gras. ”The Tiwi Islands, about 80km north of Darw, is home to Atralia’s largt per pa transgenr populatn, wh lols claimg that up to five per cent of approximately 3000 rints intify as transgenr, gay, lbian or bisexual.

As more venu were opened along the Goln Mile, the street self beme a gay space, as did the surroundg neighbourhoods where LGBTQ people – particularly gay men – ma hom the terrac and apartments of Darlghurst and Paddgton. A bid by New South Wal police to exclu a high-profile killg om a gay hate quiry has been ath of US mathematician Stt Johnson is one of dozens of s unr the spotlight at a special missn of quiry to spected gay hate crim Sydney between 1970 and 27-year-old died after he was punched at a gay beat on Sydney’s northern beach. In the latt velopment, Stt Phillip Whe plead guilty to throwg the punch that ultimately ed Johnson to fall to his month, jtice Robert Beech-Jon dismissed “what appears to be an absurd suggtn [by police] that Dr Johnson killed himself” when sentencg Whe to ne years past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnNSW police had argued Johnson’s ath was outsi the current quiry’s terms of reference on the basis the matter was not unsolved, the man rponsible for his ath intified as gay and a sentencg judge did not fd the ath to be motivated by gay the quiry’s missner, jtice John Sackar, on Tuday led s terms of reference were much wir and answers to qutns such as how and why Johnson died were still not urt did not make a fdg beyond reasonable doubt that Whe was motivated by gay hate, but did not le out the possibily, he is due to hand down his fal report next month.

In the latt Gay-Ville one, the stud is on the n om a Wonr Woman-clad drag queen on the streets of R Sao 's all to get you the mood for Brazil's Carnival next year by havg you thk of mcle guys answerg the door if you book through Gay-Ville.

THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY

In dog so, we ntribute to the ongog bat about the nature, characteristics, and implitns of the shiftg fortun of some tradnal gay villag the Global beg by discsg geographil scholarship on the emergence of gay villag the Global North wh an emphasis on ntemporary lerature tailg the perceived “cle” of some longstandg gay villag, cludg those Toronto and Sydney. Throughout, the acronym LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans) refers to inti grouped together to reflect llective terts and muny as genred and sexual mori, while queer not a ntemporary moment when some dividuals reject a genred and sexual specificy but still posn themselv wh non-normative genr and sexual unrstandgs—a posng reflected recent urban chang. This rearch highlights the domant role that gay men (maly whe and middle-class) played the velopment and growth of gay villag, ially through their appropriatn of plac for safety and support to their e of the neighborhoods for polil, social, and enomic secury and activism (Castells 1983; Chncey 1994; Doan and Higgs 2011; Gorman-Murray and Wat 2009; Knopp 1990; Lewis 2012; Nash 2006).

Simultaneoly, lbians and queer women also habed urban lotns and neighborhoods and utilized gay village spac, albe distctive and ls visible ways (Adler and Brenner 1992; Nast 2002; Podmore 2001, 2013; Rothenberg 1995; Valente 1993, 1996). The HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s helped cement villag as hubs of LGBT life, and plac such as Toronto and Sydney they provid re servic cludg hospice re, outreach, health tn, and unselg servic (Ksman 1996; Warner 2002; Willett 2000a; Wotherspoon 1991) the 1980s, gay villag were creasgly ught up broar urban social and enomic procs that saw them rporated, through the neoliberal policy iativ of the entreprenrial cy, to creasgly modified and nsumable urban landsp (Bell and Bnie 2002; Bnie 2000; Bnie and Skeggs 2004; Visser 2008).

This amg of a “homonormative polic” has prompted some to argue that we nnot unrstand this to be a universal or monolhic rult and that we need to attend to the “difference, unevenns and geographil specificy” of genred and sexual relatns the gay village and beyond (Brown 2009: 1498) recent scholarship suggts, ntemporary gay villag, cludg those Toronto and Sydney, are experiencg forms of “gayg” wh broar polil, social, and enomic procs at work many Global North ci (Colls 2004; Rutg 2008; Gorman-Murray and Wat 2009; Nash 2013a; Visser 2013).

GAYS NOT WELE: THE MSAGE OM SHOPS ONE OF SYDNEY'S PKT SUBURBS

” While many argue this new visibily is only available to certa normatively genred and sexualized gays and lbians, others suggt the spatial chang reflect greater acceptance of sexual and genred difference, as well as a growg social hn across a wi variety of neighborhoods (Ghaziani 2021; Gorman-Murray and Wat 2009; Nash 2013a; Visser 2013). Neverthels, as scholars argue, while some gays and lbians are able to fully tegrate to the mastream, others ntue to be margalized as “queer, ” that is, as those livg outsi of the homonormative liftyl supported by legislative and social change (Bnie 2004; Ghaziani 2011; see also Duggan 2003; Richardson 2005) lerature also suggts that gay villag are cle bee of creased ter and social media e (Mil 2021), allowg LGBT and queer dividuals to fd other like-md dividuals whout the need for exprsly LGBT and queer spac such as gay villag (Mil 2021; Mowlaboc 2010; Nash and Gorman-Murray 2019a; Usher and Morrison 2010).

The lotns are arguably of ltle tert to newer generatns, who are able to experience a wir variety of lotns, inti, and subjectivi, and who are ls terted, perhaps, subscribg to sentialized gay and lbian inti associated wh gay Toronto and Sydney clu well-tablished gay villag, which over the last thirty years have been fully tegrated to the fabric of each cy’s downtown re. Given that both villag and related events, such as Pri and Mardi Gras, are ed to monstrate their cy’s smopolanism and petivens, mastream terts, cludg lol municipal uncils and LGBT anizatns, are ncerned about the potential fate of their gay neighborhoods. While is beyond the spe of this chapter to lay out tail the siari between Toronto’s and Sydney’s gay village velopment, we would argue that our own work documents the notably siar polil, enomic, and social histori of the ongog velopment of gay villag Toronto and Sydney (Gorman-Murray and Nash 2014, 2017; Nash and Gorman-Murray 2014; Nash 2006, 2013a).

LGBT and queer polil and social activism wh discrete natnal ntexts has been markedly siar but wh varyg and distctive differenc (Tremblay, Paternotte and Johnson 2011) the followg sectns, we nsir their rpective historil geographi through three specific them—post World War II planng polici, the emergence of “cy of neighborhoods” disurs, and the posng of gay villag wh neoliberal procs of modifitn and nsumerism. In keepg wh the histori of other North Amerin LGBT neighborhoods, Toronto’s post-war homosexual populatn cltered and around the ls sirable areas, able to live relatively open liv among other margalized groups the Bloor and Church Street district (Egan 1998) the post-World War II perd, Cy of Toronto planng polici were directed largely toward the ner suburbs surroundg the cy of Toronto. Clash wh anti-gay activists, cludg Ana Bryant and lol pastor Ken Campbell, as well as anizg agast police harassment of bathho, fostered further polil activism geared toward fendg homosexual mercial tablishments.

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

By the end of the 1970s, gay and lbian activists fully regnized the Church and Wellley Street area as a gay neighborhood and lled for s fense, not only by gays and lbians but also by the lol municipal uncil. In 1980, Gee Hislop ran as the first openly gay ndidate for Cy the background, the electn of a Cy of Toronto “reform” uncil 1969 prompted lls to end major urban renewal projects and to protect and prerve ner-cy neighborhoods.

Taken together, the new urban social movements, the velopment of stable ethnic enclav, and the growg gay and lbian rights movement enuraged an unrstandg of the Church and Wellley Street neighborhood as one worth protectg as a legimate polil and social terrory for gays and lbians to participate cy life (Nash 2006).

Scholars have documented the important role that gay men and lbians played as early gentrifiers margal lotns Toronto, cludg the impact of gay men the Cabbagetown neighborhood adjacent to the nascent gay village the early 1970s (Bouthillette 1994). 2 Neoliberalism and Toronto’s Gay VillageIn the 1990s, Canadian ci, cludg Toronto, experienced creasg fancial stra as the Ontar provcial and feral ernments began shiftg the sts of welfare and social programs, and astcture repair and management, to lol municipali. Cy thori unrstood the importance of “place-makg” creatg a posive cy image, makg them mags for employment, dtry, and the early 2000s, Toronto’s gay village (as wh other gay villag North Ameri, Europe and Atralia) was fully rporated to the fabric of the post-dtrial entreprenrial cy that knted together modified, nsumer-based neighborhoods wh downtown urban liftyl (Bnie and Skeggs 2004; Nash 2013a, b).

REVERG THE GAY VILLAGE: A COMPARATIVE HISTORIL GEOGRAPHY OF URBAN CHANGE AND PLANNG TORONTO AND SYDNEY

In a manner siar to other lotns the Global North, the gay village’s rporatn to modified urban landsp is a reflectn part of the aspiratns of some gay men and lbians for cln a neoliberal polics that rults the privilegg of some gay men and lbians who sire to live wh middle class, genr-normative, monogamo upledom—a form of homonormalizatn (Duggan 2003). Preparg for the events provid the lol LGBT bs muny wh an opportuny to unrtake more long-range planng around the future of the gay village and s role LGBT and queer Church and Wellley Village Bs Improvement Associatn (BIA) was created 2002.

The BIA formed a close associatn wh the LGBT muny, and followg the succsful World Pri and PanAm bids, the BIA and LGBT activists, wh the support of Councilor Kristyn Wong-Tam, lnched a planng study to terme the future directn of the gay village.

In ntrast wh “faial” suburbia, nighttime ner-cy Sydney was imaged as a se of vice and immoraly, bt seen the clubs, prostutn, and crime associated wh the red-light district the ner east suburb of Kg’s Cross (Johnson 2000; Dunn 2011) was such limal ner-cy spac that Sydney’s gay and lbian subcultur emerged, which historians suggt were more ncentrated and visible than other Atralian ci (Wotherspoon 1991). Amidst the mobile, relatnal geographi of the post-war perd, the nfluence of rights, polics, cremental social change, and an cipient geographil anchor provid the material foundatn for a gay village Sydney, centered on Oxford Street, eventually known by that same moniker (Fig.

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1 Consolidatn of a Gay Neighborhood: Sydney the 1970s to the 1990sThe nsolidatn of Oxford Street as a gay area occurred quickly, wh actns of the gay muny spired by gay neighborhoods emergg San Francis’s Castro and Los Angel’s Wt Hollywood (Wotherspoon 1991).

Durg the s, gay prs offic proliferated; gay rights groups reloted to the neighborhood; health servic aimed at gay clientele moved (GPs, ntists, unselors, and HIV/AIDS servic); and servic for gay youth (Twenty10) or relig gays (Metropolan Communy Church) were tablished (Rutg 2008) Street’s velopment has entailed succs and failur. The spatial ncentratn of gay merce, anizatns, and rints provid polil strength for securg rights claims—a “ncentrated voice” that impelled NSW anti-discrimatn laws (1982) and the crimalizatn of homosexualy (1984). Parallel wh such chang NSW parliament, a geographil hub for LGBT muny anizatns and learship (and mercial and sex venu, and rints) allowed for a ordated, jot rponse om the state and the gay muny to HIV/AIDS the early 1980s, generatg one of the most effective rpons globally, targetg safer sex msag at the gay muny, keepg fectn rat relatively low (c.

LBIANS HISTORILLY SEEN AS ‘FAIR GAME’ SYDNEY, ADVOTE TELLS GAY HATE QUIRY

The lol ernment (Cy of Sydney Council) and reprentativ for the NSW electorate have nsistently champned LGBT neighborhood has been an enomic succs too, highlighted by the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Ftival, a month-long LGBT ftival rporatg a famo para along Oxford Street, dance parti, a film ftival, and cultural and sportg events. Rearchers suggt several reasons for this cle as a gay lole, cludg creasg straight rints (and venu) due to the “cultural che” of the gay village; risg rents pricg out gay rints and bs; and onle works, rcg the need for a spatial ncentratn of social venu. 6(Source Image by Andrew Gorman-Murray)Kg Street, Newtown, Sydney, 2020, wh The Bank Hotel flyg LGBT flags (right hand si of the street)Full size imageWhile Oxford Street is typilly unrstood as a gay male space, Newtown and the ner wt are seen to provi a home for a broar sexual and genr mographic, cludg lbians, queer women, and trans people.

While some suggt that this challeng the ntuance of Oxford Street, others ntend that the ner wt ters to a different LGBT mographic—one perhaps more clive of sexual and genr diversy than the “tradnal” gay (male) ghetto. 5 Thoughts on Historil Legaci and the Future of the Gay VillageWe argue that the distct historil geographi of the Church-Wellley and Oxford Street gay villag help to posn each differently wh the urban fabric of, rpectively, Toronto and Sydney. Sce then, Sydney as well as Toronto, the lol cy uncils have rporated their “gay villag” to “cy of neighborhoods” disurs, aimed at boostg iativ around creative dtri, marketg, and tourism by modifyg the diversy, smopolanism, and liftyle of the ner cy.

Sce that time, Oxford Street has ntued to cle materially and imagatively as the gay village wh Sydney, while Newtown and the ner wt have ntued to solidify as queer neighborhoods (Gorman-Murray and Nash 2014, 2017; Gorman-Murray and Wat 2009) a rult of the different polil and terrorial legaci of Church-Wellley and Oxford Street, seems that late 2000s disurs about the terratn of gay villag arguably promoted bat about the prervatn and future of Church-Wellley before reached the state of cle beg experienced by Oxford Street. Lbians were seen as “fair game” if they weren’t the pany of a man and faced vlence when they turned down sexual advanc, an quiry to unsolved LGBTQ+ aths has been the years after New South Wal crimalised homosexualy 1984, Carole Ruthchild said lbians still faced severe backlash simply for beg themselv.

”Ruthchild was the first wns om the lbian muny to give evince at the NSW Special Commissn of Inquiry to LGBTQ+ hate is vtigatg historil hate crim agast the queer muny, particularly a wave of gay-hate homicis and other crim Sydney durg the Aids epimic of the of the evince prented to the quiry this week has related to vlence agast gay men.

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