A gay day …Darw – The Cisg Silver Fox

Contents:

• A GAY DAY …DARW
• DARW'S GAY SCENE: TAKE A TOUR THROUGH NT'S QUEER HISTORY WH ACTIVIST AND AMIC DR DO HODGE
• GAY DARW
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• MOSW GAY DANCE CLUBS & PARTI
• MOSW GAY BARS
• THROB NIGHTCLUBDARWMENUHOTELSDARWTHROB NIGHTCLUB
• GAY DARW GUI | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO DARW
• THROB: DARW'S CHANGE-MAKG GAY NIGHTCLUB OF AGE
• MAN’S FURY OVER ‘PRAVED’ TOILET ACT SPARKS BATE OVER GAY BEATS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS DARW

A GAY DAY …DARW

Hence, "a gay day ...

Atralian gay history amic and activist Dr Do Hodge arrived Darw 1983, jt before the closure of two now-legendary mp venu, Dix and Hodge has sce moved to Alai, but returns to Darw to host walkg tours that foc on the Northern Terrory's lser known amic's last walkg tour for Darw Pri Ftival 2015 began at Lameroo Beach — known by the Larrakia people as Damoe-Ra — on Darw's Esplana.

DARW'S GAY SCENE: TAKE A TOUR THROUGH NT'S QUEER HISTORY WH ACTIVIST AND AMIC DR DO HODGE

Colonisatn begs DarwAfter the first succsful European attempt to reach the Top End 1845, what is now known as Darw beme predomately lonised by men, which helped created a "homosocial environment" 1923 public baths were built at Lameroo Beach, which soon went onto bee a meetg place for gay men — albe well-vered circumstanc.

GAY DARW

It was discreet, " Dr Hodge is unclear how much sexual activy occurred at the baths but Dr Hodge has found legal rerds between 1942 and 1962 ditg homosexual activy was takg place " every European centre across the Terrory", cludg sports ovals and World War II, Darw's populatn doubled mostly due to an flux of servicemen, and the baths flourished. "I wasn't an absolute whore, only a part-time one, " relled an Atralian Air Force serviceman, who equented the baths, oral history accsed by Dr 's gay bar scene emergAs social attus to homosexualy began to soften the late 1950s, Dr Do Hodge found evince of the first Aborigal man publicly g out as gay. "He me out when he was que young, about 18, which was a very brave thg to do, " said a gay Aborigal man at the time oral history accsed by Dr the 1960s, Gurra relled an Aborigal woman also g out.

(Supplied: Dr Do Hodge)She was a teacher ted down south who drove around wh her partner a vibrant green Dr Hodge said the queer nightlife scene which started to emerge Darw at this time maly tered to homosexual 1969, celebrated entreprenr John Spellman donned women's clothg and opened the Pianola Palace, the first gay-iendly Darw club beme known for a topls drag queen barmaid and a miature nu statue of David before beg cimated by Cyclone Tracy Spellman kept the Pianola Palace nng wh the help of tarpl tents and, as the town revered, other gay-iendly bars such as Dix, Fanni, Close Enunters, Squir and the Mississippi Queen emerged the Hodge believed lbians equented the venu but were generally "more discreet", and the prence of lbians was "assumed rather than apparent" Terrory's equal rights eraDr Hodge said the Terrory's lbian muny was bolstered by the Pe Gap women's peace mp, tablished 1983 near Alice Sprgs to ph for women's equal tablishment of women's legal service and refug the 1980s ntued this femist momentum, but there was evince of homophobia a tradnally mascule "wboy" town. (Supplied: Dr Do Hodge)Siarly, the gay muny — which started to lnch clubs such as the Darw Gay Society and the Boomer Motor Club the same era — also battled ternal and external divisn.

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

"There are a lot of racist gay wh around, " relled an Aborigal man 1980s oral history accsed by Dr muny was also challenged by the AIDS crisis and associated "fear and moral panic" the late 80s, Dr Hodge the Terrory, the queer muny rpond to the global crisis wh a lol AIDS uncil — a ty office tablished 1985 and n on a shotrg Darw's CBD.

"[The fact] that today we enjoy such a society is substantially due to the urageo and ntug efforts of many of the Northern Terrory's lbian, gay and trans cizens, " Dr Hodge said.

MOSW GAY DANCE CLUBS & PARTI

" Pri Ri 2015 morn tim of Darw's gay history. Conveniently loted right next door was Throb Nightclub, the only gay venue town.

Loted Bowen Hills jt a stroll away om the gay clubs. Sheltered om the outsi elements hog the only gay swimmg pool Brisbane! Brisbane's ONLY gay owned and operated men's sna.

Geni Pictur (“Mrs Lowry & Son, ” “Good Luck To You, Leo Gran”) has optned Emmett Monterey’s acclaimed memoir “Go the Way Your Blood Beats” – about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London – for TV adaptatn. At his mastream school, teachers refe to schle his class on the ground floor, and at his llege for disabled stunts, he’s told he will be expelled if the mors are te, if he’s gay.

MOSW GAY BARS

Throb Nightclub and the gay-iendly venu are loted the area on and around Mchell, Smh and Knucky Streets downtown Darw Cy, the cy's bit mercial strip. Emen8 "Atralia's biggt and bolst onle sexual health and wellbeg iative for gay men, bisexual men and men who have sex wh men!

THROB NIGHTCLUBDARWMENUHOTELSDARWTHROB NIGHTCLUB

The Cavenagh -aka "The Cav" (12 Cavenagh St), gay-popular rtrant, fe, bar and bottlhop; breakfast, lunch and dner, snacks, w. The Gay Men's Pri group gathers here for Thursday Drks at 5pm and for bnch at 10:30am on first Sundays of the month. Deck Bar (22 Mchell St), rtrant and bar, cktails, 80+ beers, bnch, large outdoor pat space/ beer garn, Asian-style tapas, lunch/dner; mixed gay-iendly crowd, open day and night every day.

The Beats, pecially around Gsberg, laid the foundatn for later synergi created by gay poets.

GAY DARW GUI | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO DARW

After the Send World War, San Francis slowly beme home to both a gay bar subculture and a homophile activist movement, which mostly operated isolatn om each other.

THROB: DARW'S CHANGE-MAKG GAY NIGHTCLUB OF AGE

There was a burgeong Beat culture North Beach, two homosexual bar payola sndals volvg the police partment and the mayor, and an vasive police crackdown agast gay bars that lasted three years. The San Francis Beats and the gays had a symbtic relatnship. " One uld say the same about the unrground culture of gay leathermen that was about to emerge.

MAN’S FURY OVER ‘PRAVED’ TOILET ACT SPARKS BATE OVER GAY BEATS

Homosexualy was part of the North Beach scene. Many of the Beats were homosexual, cludg Gsberg, Jack Spicer, Robert Dunn, and Rob Blaser. Gsberg slashed through gay stereotyp of gay male sexualy wh Howl's celebratn of joyo and even holy sexual unn.

He served as a bridge between the tolerant lerary world and the emergg gay polil scene.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS DARW

Both Beats and gays challenged the nformist prsur of the . Thanks to the Beats, gays uld now view themselv as nonnformists rather than mentally ill rebels wh a e.

North Beach was home to gay and lbian bars, cludg the Black Cat, an area stutn, as well as gay cisg areas, wh all spreadg down to Polk Street and to the Tenrlo. Gsberg scribed as "the greatt gay bar Ameri.