'Paper Boys': The Gay-Straight Friendship Story We Haven’t Seen Yet

Contents:

• GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• ‘SON OF IMMIGRANTS, BLACK AND GAY’: A D.J. BREAKS BARRIERS FRANCE
• GAY AGENDA NOTEPAD
• GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS
• THE GAY CHRISTIAN ‘NUN’ AND SATIRIST WHO BEME A QUEER LEGEND

GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

Fabian went to Caras Darlghurst for mental health terventns, and to Dr Neil McConachy for aversn therapy, which failed to "cure" his homosexualy. He went to study at the Universy of New South Wal (UNSW), focg on archiv, and started to get volved gay groups 1973.

Fabian worked sually gay bars Kgs Cross and put personal ads the then-radil and queer-iendly Natn Review. His advert sayg “Quaere et venietis” — “Seek and ye shall fd” — attracted tert om gay men who shared his fascatn wh tradnal relig vtments.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

Fabian was extremely socially and polilly nservative the early 1970s, but later beme volved the gay muny and activism. He me to the morng march on June 24, 1978, wh a sign sayg “Gay, Free and C of E”.

After the Mardi Gras arrts, he beme active the Gay Solidary Group. Not long after, Fabian tablished AngGays wh Pe Borthwick and others — the fourth lbian and gay relig group Sydney (after Acceptance, Metropolan Communy Church and Chutzpah).

After the first Mardi Gras 1978, nontatnal lbian, gay and trans activism accelerated. In 1981, he helped found the Gay Liberatn Quire and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (as Sr Mary Volupta, later as Mother Inferr, or Mother Abyss) and later he was a volist wh the untry gospel band, Eve and the Forbidn Fs. Mother had avatars cludg: Monsignor Pormadonna, the Papal Nunc to Sydney’s gay and lbian muny, playg “Volare” on acrdn, the Pentestal Rev Oral Rich (or Richards, honour of Amerin Oral Roberts, the ma proponent of the Prospery Gospel), Greek Orthodox Patriarch Sfichtokolos, Dean Sheraton Hilton, (a Sydney Anglin Dce Ftival of Light and real tate maven) and Father Terence Patrick Francis Zavier O’Flynn, a one-armed Catholic prit om Nyngan, fond of gamblg and alhol).

‘SON OF IMMIGRANTS, BLACK AND GAY’: A D.J. BREAKS BARRIERS FRANCE

Fabian was tirels performg, not jt for gay men and lbians, but also for peace, ternatnal solidary, left and unn events and for sex workers, dg ers and archivists.

Gay Solidary and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence anised a monstratn of 400 at Ry Civic Centre outsi a prayer rally by Amerin Moral Majory lear, Jerry Falwell, abortg his plans to expand to Atralia  1983. Monsignor Pormadonna and Mother officiated at exorcisms, raffl and dog shows at the three-week Gay Rights Embassy outsi Premier Neville Wran’s home Woollahra 1983.

GAY AGENDA NOTEPAD

Led by Mother Inferr, half a dozen gay male nuns narrowly ped ath outsi the Sydney Film Ftival 1985.

GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

Mother Inferr, Sister Mary and Mary Que Contrary were arrted at the Universy of Sydney for the slogan: “Anti-Woman, Anti-Gay, Fascist Pope Go Away!

Wrten by Phil Stevenson, the anthem “Thank You Lord for Gay Liberatn” was transformed by the ecstatic preachg of Rev Oral, ttifyg to the “Four Square Gospel of Socialism, Femism, Gay Liberatn and Ethnic Pri”.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

Mother Inferr pneered the Sisters providg pastoral re wh and beyond the lbian and gay muni, wh multi-fah ceremoni for namg children, relatnship and hoe blsgs and memorial servic.

Mother Inferr and the Sisters ntued to play a role safe sex tn, for gay men, dg ers and sex workers. Fabian parad Mardi Gras almost every year, var edic guis, ually cleril, and ntributed to a range of gay groups, such as Enola Gay anti-nuclear group, GayWav rad and Insi Out prisoners support work wh Kendall Lovett. In 1985, Enunters, an ABC relign partment TV program featured Fabian’s life story and the ntradictns of beg a homosexual Christian.

Well, Curtis Casella and Kyle Cabral set to change that landspe their new project, Paper Boys (lnchg today on Dekkoo, the global streamg platform for gay and queer men), where nearly three quarters of the st and crew are Asian-Amerin, Ain-Ameri, Lato, or seri, which tells the story of Cole, who secretly mov to San Francis unr the guise of attendg his straight bt iend's engagement party bee of his ad-end reer and memori of a past flg New York. We knew we wanted to make somethg that was a b more exotic than your standard straight, so to speak, drama, which is what almost every gay show seems to we talked about makg a show about a gay vigilante, and I very strongly wanted to make a gay mil, but Kyle rightly suggted that, sce neher he nor I were posers or lyricists, that might be difficult. Kyle is also a talented artist, so f our abili que about the reasong and importance behd showsg a gay-straight male iendship?

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

You often don't see this story The gay-straight iendship is somewhat tobgraphil for both Kyle and me. Both of have really close iends who are straight, and we felt like was somethg we didn't see often enough gay media.

It's really tertg to see the vast differenc life experience between gay men and straight men. My bt iend was havg a hard time meetg iends and asked me how I ma them when I moved back to San Francis, and I said, well, I have Grdr, and gay bars, and circu parti, and I jt see people aga and aga and iendships e naturally.

THE GAY CHRISTIAN ‘NUN’ AND SATIRIST WHO BEME A QUEER LEGEND

Like, if we uld show a iendship that was platonic between a straight and gay man, might normalize to an extent that 's perhaps not normalized now.