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• ASIE SHORTS: ACCSQUEER SHORT STORI OM DOWN UNRDAVID WA CHAMBERS·FOLLOWPUBLISHED PRISM & PEN·3 M READ·AUG 18, 2020--1SHAREASIE FOOTY SHORTS, HALF TO SPEEDO SWIMWEAR ALSO ORIGALLY SIGNED OZ.MOSTLY SET ATRALIA, THIS LLECTN OF LGBTQIA SHORT AND SHORT-SHORT STORI UNVERS ASIE VALU, BOTH MENDABLE AND DUB. FROM THE SPARKLG WATERS OF SYDNEY HARBOUR TO THE BACK ALLEYS OF MELBOURNE, OM OUT BEYOND THE ‘BLACK STUMP’ TO THE NER CY SUBURBS, GAY LIFE THE 21ST CENTURY HAS NEVER BEEN LIVELIER AND NEVER MORE WILY ACCEPTED AS A VALID AND VALUABLE DIMENSN OF ATRALIAN SOCIETY. THE NARRATIV ARE OFTEN LOOSELY PLOTTED, WH ANKLY EROTIC OVERTON, BUT N TURN-ON-A-DIME WH SURPRISG EMOTNAL TWISTS AT THE END.ACCS TO THE STORI
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• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
• 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS

ASIE SHORTS: ACCSQUEER SHORT STORI OM DOWN UNRDAVID WA CHAMBERS·FOLLOWPUBLISHED PRISM & PEN·3 M READ·AUG 18, 2020--1SHAREASIE FOOTY SHORTS, HALF TO SPEEDO SWIMWEAR ALSO ORIGALLY SIGNED OZ.MOSTLY SET ATRALIA, THIS LLECTN OF LGBTQIA SHORT AND SHORT-SHORT STORI UNVERS ASIE VALU, BOTH MENDABLE AND DUB. FROM THE SPARKLG WATERS OF SYDNEY HARBOUR TO THE BACK ALLEYS OF MELBOURNE, OM OUT BEYOND THE ‘BLACK STUMP’ TO THE NER CY SUBURBS, GAY LIFE THE 21ST CENTURY HAS NEVER BEEN LIVELIER AND NEVER MORE WILY ACCEPTED AS A VALID AND VALUABLE DIMENSN OF ATRALIAN SOCIETY. THE NARRATIV ARE OFTEN LOOSELY PLOTTED, WH ANKLY EROTIC OVERTON, BUT N TURN-ON-A-DIME WH SURPRISG EMOTNAL TWISTS AT THE END.ACCS TO THE STORI

Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy. The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch.

From the sparklg waters of Sydney harbour to the back alleys of Melbourne, om out beyond the ‘black stump’ to the ner cy suburbs, gay life the 21st century has never been livelier and never more wily accepted as a valid and valuable dimensn of Atralian society. Christopher, 26, has been a fulltime sex worker for the past seven said his first job as a “rent boy” — a term ed to scribe male sex workers who advertise their servic on gay rt s — was “a b dntg but fairly straightforward”.

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“I’d always had guys proposng me onle and at gay clubs and stuff like that so didn’t really feel was a big leap to go om hookg up wh them for ee to puttg a price on … pecially bee meant actually diggg myself out of a fancial hole, ” he said. "We n see the impact of preventn strategi like creasg HIV ttg, treatment as preventn, and pre-exposure prophylaxis particularly among gay and bisexual men, for whom new diagnos have been droppg signifintly sce 2014. They show that the majory (57%) of new HIV s ntue to be diagnosed among gay and bisexual men.

Atralia's world-leadg HIV rctns gay and bisexual men. Atralia has achieved a remarkable 57% rctn new HIV diagnos among gay and bisexual men sce 2013, showsg the succs of prehensive approach to HIV preventn wh this populatn. who to fd through takg swimmg lsons that beg a homosexual.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

story of his first gay sexual enunter at fourteen, wh his fifteen. FilterFeatured StoriTemptatn Of The HeartThis story is about Ak Kensh, a not too short and feme-like male, who is bullied every day by a homophobic guy named, Koma Takehisa for beg gay. Gay panic?

It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch.

To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report. An open list of the bt young adult lerature by Atralian thors wh lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, tersex and/or asexual characters, ntent and/or them.

Hi and Seek: Stori About Beg Young and Gay/Lbian. asexual, s, ssie, stralia, stralian, bisexual, fictn, gay, gay-and-lbian, genr-qutng, glbt, glbtq, glbtqi, homosexualy, tersex, lbian, lgbt, lgbt-ya, lgbtq, lgbtqi, lgbtqia, loveozya, oz, ozya, queer, same-sex-attracted, trans, transgenr, young-adult. Meet Jake, a young gay Atralian who grew up a ral untry town.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

When I first realised I was gay.

I like to say to people that I realised I was gay right after I first had sex wh a du. Growg up, never occurred to me that I was gay. I gus I jt wanted to prove to myself that I was okay wh beg gay.

For many years, I’d believed that people my town wouldn’t tolerate anyone gay. When I heard ments like ‘Oh, that’s gay’ or ‘Ha!

JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA

I thought they hated homosexuals. Once I was livg away, however, I realised that wasn’t my hometown that didn’t like me beg gay; I didn’t like myself for beg gay. Beg gay the untry is hard.

My sex life and my sexualy were the gossip sphere for such a small amount of time that, by the time I returned to Atralia, people had actually fotten that I’d intified as gay. Beg gay a small untry town means I still do all the normal thgs I did before I me out. The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert (1994)While same-sex marriage was only ma legal Atralia 2017, the untry has a fairly strong rerd on LGBT rights, and Sydney is one of the most gay-iendly ci the world.

10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS

Atralian cema has had a rather strange relatnship wh male homosexualy. Before the 1970s, the sexualy of probable gay characters was not ma explic, for example the effemate sal assistant  Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938).

The Set (1970) is the first Atralian film wh homosexualy as a central theme, while gay men appeared sexploatn favour such as Atralia after Dark (1975) and The ABCs of Love and Sex: Atralia Style (1978), which H was for homosexualy. Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release Max 2: The Road Warrr (1981) featured a gay villa (the leather-clad Wez, enraged by the slayg of his lover), while more sympathetic homosexual characters appeared prison drama Stir (1980) and fay melodrama Mull (1988). The 1990s were a goln era for gay Ozzie films, while the new lennium has seen a glut of low-budget gay surfer dramas, cludg the easy-on-the-eye Newstle (2008), the nihilistic Drown (2015) and the downright bizarre Tan L (2006).

The Naked Bunyip (1970)Homosexualy was tnip to many of the filmmakers behd the wave of sexploatn documentari that flourished Atralia the 1970s, which often served as an exce to show tillatg shots of lbians gettg down to bs the bedroom. Gay men, if they appeared, were ually shown as unsympathetic, bchy queens. Not so The Naked Bunyip, the grandfather of Atralian sexploatn, which a lengthy segment is voted to a gay male dock worker, who talks ndidly about his life.