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inside the gay prison experiment

Gay prison experiment: A ee dible podst on an Atralia gay prison the 50s where rceratn clud human prison experiment. Follow a podst qut by journalist Patrick Abboud

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EXPOSG THE SHOCKG PLAN BEHD ATRALIA’S GAY PRISON

Patrick Abboud’s Greatt Menace podst reveals the untold history of a jail set up to rcerate gay men and experiment to fd a ‘cure’ for homosexualy." name="scriptn * inside the gay prison experiment *

The gay marriage bate Atralia had boiled over, and while he was verg an anti-gay marriage prott, the openly gay journalist was mobbed and the SBS work Christmas party, he was unwdg wh a uple of drks, then planned to h the dancefloor before gog home and takg a break om reportg for a while.

THE VEP OF A SECRET GAY PRISON IS ONE OF THE MOST FASCATG & DISTURBG STORI OF 2022

The Greatt Menace: Insi the Gay Prison Experiment: Wh Patrick Abboud. Journalist Patrick Abboud hears whispers that there was once a world's only 'gay prison'. A prison that specifilly rcerated gay men. His vtigatn to what happened si reveals the full story for the first time." data-id="ma * inside the gay prison experiment *

Journalist Patrick Abboud has created a podst about the world’s only gay Rohan ThomsonThat was exactly when his iend and -worker Simon Cunich walked up to him to say he’d received an trigug story tip. “Simon said a iend of an acquatance had told him that there had once been a prison somewhere NSW that was set up to rcerate gay men, ” says Abboud.

’”Abboud, wh Cunich as -producer, voted the next three years of his life to fdg out about , and the rult is The Greatt Menace, an eight-part Audible Origal lotn of the jail NSW shocked Patrick Rohan ThomsonIt sounds like somethg out of Rsia or East Germany or the US ep south, but happened Cooma, the small town an hour-and-a-half drive south of Canberra known as the gateway to the Snowy 1957, the town’s jail, which had been closed the early 1900s, was re-opened wh a new rem – was to be a prison for homosexuals. Abboud disvered that the prison was a ordated effort between ernment and police to provi a pool of subjects for study and experimentatn to disver a “cure” for homosexualy. As Abboud searched for throughout the seri, he felt that “they eher didn’t disver what they wanted, and uldn’t cure homosexualy, so they need to bury the report, or the thgs they did were so horrific that they never wanted anyone to see the tail.

THE GREATT MENACE: INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT

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”Homosexualy was a crime NSW until 1984.

Abboud terviews gay men now their 70s and 80s who tell raw and revealg stori of beg targeted, entrapped and arrted by unrver police at gay beats such as public toilets, parks and beach.

And here Atralia, the seeds of were planted that gay prison Cooma. Sometime the late 1950s, Atralia beme home to the world’s only gay prison.

‘INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT’ — A ‘QUEER SERIAL’ AUDIBLE PODST — IS AN OBSSED QUT FOR INFO ABOUT THE ANTI-GAY ATRALIAN GOVT. CAMPAIGN VS. “THE GREATT MENACE TO SOCIETY: HOMOSEXUALY”

Insi the Gay Prison Experiment is a Free Audible Podst Origal om Atralia. This 5 hour podst ee and downloadable all at once on parent pany Amazon’s se. We are through jt the first chapter and we are hooked. Listen wh . [This post ntas vio, click to play] “Tucked awa... * inside the gay prison experiment *

The Greatt Menace: Insi the Gay Prison Experiment was released earlier this year and is streamg for ee on The seri explor how and why the prison was tablished, the far-reachg effects had on Atralia’s LGBTQ+ muny, and the mystery surroundg what officials disvered via their “experiments” there. Abboud says that the prison Cooma, New South Wal, was operatnal by 1958 and may have hoed gay prisoners as late as the 1980s.

Through his reportg, he me to believe that the prison was tentnally tablished to rearch the and treatments of homosexualy and to eradite . He scrib how New South Wal police purposefully entrapped gay men, arrtg and chargg them wh “cent asslt” even for nsensual enunters. “They tablished a prison specifilly to rcerate gay men, specifilly to rcerate homosexuals and they had an tentn behd that, ” Abboud said.

‘INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT’ — A ‘QUEER SERIAL’ AUDIBLE PODST — IS AN OBSSED QUT FOR INFO ABOUT THE ANTI-GAY ATRALIAN GOVT. CAMPAIGN VS. “THE GREATT MENACE TO SOCIETY: HOMOSEXUALY”

The podster sharg stori about the world's only "gay prison", once loted regnal New South Wal, hop people will e forward wh new leads about the dark chapter  LGBTQI+ history. * inside the gay prison experiment *

What is known, and is revealed through Abboud’s terviews and recreatns of actual urt transcripts, is the history of persecutn that gay men faced.

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COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'

We spoke to Patrick Abboud about his new te crime podst 'The Greatt Menace', which centr around Atralia's secret gay only prison. * inside the gay prison experiment *

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COOMA JAIL'S DARK PAST CLUS BEG WORLD'S ONLY 'GAY PRISON', PODST REVEALS

At the centre of all was a vert ernment operatn to eradite ‘the greatt menace to society': homosexualy. To a gay prison.

Supposedly a prison was built the 50s specifilly to rcerate gay men… some sort of experiment. ABBOUD: “When I started lookg to the story of a gay prison, I had no ia what I'd stumbled to, revealg…”.

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ANOTHER SUBJECT: “You have to expect that There's a jail full of homosexuals”. ABBOUD: Tryg to unlock the story of the gay prison would fd me entangled a police ver up.

So you were placed the public toilets as an unrver operative to tch the gay men out? This was the vid-19 of those years and epimic oof homosexualy. Journalist Patrick Abboud hears whispers that was once home to the world’s only ‘gay prison’.

At the centre of all was a vert ernment operatn to eradite ‘the greatt menace to society’: homosexualy. ABBOUD: “When I started lookg to the story of a gay prison, I had no ia what I’d stumbled to, revealg…”. ANOTHER SUBJECT: “You have to expect that There’s a jail full of homosexuals”.

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Image source, The Greatt MenaceImage ptn, Cooma jail was once ed exclively to imprison gay menSet one of the lst and wdit small towns Atralia, Cooma prison holds a dark only was reopened 1957 wh the specific purpose of rceratg men for "homosexual offenc", was also said to be ed as a human ttg ground wh the ultimate goal of eraditg homosexualy om 's jail is believed to have been the only known homosexual prison the world, acrdg to a new now, even some prison staff say they didn't know the real reason gay prisoners were segregated Strzelecki, 66, started as a ctodial servic officer at the prison 1979, and later set up the Corrective Servic Mm Cooma.

We'd red stamp homosexual prisoners wh 'N/A': non-associatn wh mastream prisons, " he tells the BBC. "You wouldn't bunk two together… that was one of our biggt problems - keepg an eye on them, " says Mr New, now source, Thomas McCoyImage ptn, L Strzelecki (left) worked at the jail before settg up the lol Corrective Servic MmHistoril documents suggt New South Wal (NSW) Jtice Mister Reg Downg took cred for tablishg the reportedly exprsed "pri" at his pet project, tellg the Sydney Morng Herald 1957: "Nowhere Europe or Ameri did I fd any prisons where homosexuals were separated om other prisoners. " A 1958 prs statement om Mr Downg nam Cooma prison as "the only penal stutn the world, so far as is known, voted specifilly to the tentn of homosexual offenrs".

Prisoners at Cooma were rcerated for beg gay, or crim related to beg gay; homosexualy wasn't crimalised NSW until dranian state laws 1955 had cracked down on homosexualy.

GAYS PRISON

"The legislative chang were very wi-rangg their asslt on the civil liberti of men thought to have homoerotic sir. Attempted buggery rried five years, and a harsher crackdown, a clse was add statg "wh or whout the nsent of such person" source, State Library of NSWImage ptn, Reg Downg exprsed pri separatg gay prisoners om othersBoth Mr Wotherspoon and the podst ce evince of police actg as "agents provotrs" to ce men to m homosexual acts. "They'd e hunky policemen to entrap gay men by enticg them to have sex, ually public toilets, " Mr Wotherspoon 1958, the NSW ernment announced a mtee of quiry to the "e and treatment of homosexualy".

It nam Cooma prison as "a special stutn for nvicted homosexual offenrs" which will "facilate the vtigatn" a "scientific evaluatn of the problem and possible solutn" has been found, Mr Downg is quoted as sayg, "the ernment nsirs that the problem mt be attacked wh vigour". ' and nclud that 'overmotherg' was "a major e of homosexualy, " says podst creator and journalist Patrick Abboud, who has spent years rearchg the prison. "We know they failed their missn to eradite homosexualy bee our podst reveals gay men havg ongog relatnships the prison.

"The elive report has never been found - somethg Mr Abboud says amounts to a "ver up" source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Cooma is a town of about 7, 000 peopleIt's unclear when homosexual prisoners were no longer sent to Cooma. Corrective Servic NSW and the NSW Department of Communi and Jtice cled to ment on the allegatns, cg their "historil nature" Abboud believ gay prisoners may have been sent there until the early 1980s, cg a 1982 statement om the rrective servic mister claimg the policy still stood.

COOMA 'GAY PRISON' PODSTERS LL FOR ERNMENT APOLOGY FOR ENTRAPMENT, PERSECUTN OF HOMOSEXUAL MEN

Sex offenrs were also sent to Cooma and this further stigmatised gay prisoners, says Mr Wotherspoon says, wh recent parliamentary bate of a Relig Discrimatn Bill threateng to allow discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, such recent history rri a soberg warng. You may also be terted :Media ptn, How Atralia's first gay imam is 'savg liv'. As celebratns ramp up ahead of Sydney's annual Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras this week, a dark part of Atralia's LGBTQI+ history is beg explored by a new pots:The Greatt Menace podst explor the dark past of Cooma's jailThe se reopened the 1950s as a "gay jail"Podst maker says was the world's only "gay prison"Podst The Greatt Menace has unearthed the tth behd the world's only "gay prison, " which operated the regnal New South Wal town of Cooma om 1957 to hoe men nvicted of homosexual historic jail and one-time asylum closed the early 1900s before s reopeng.

"When someone tells you that there was a gay prison signed to rcerate gay men that self was shockg enough.

(Supplied: Patrick Abboud)The Amazon podst spends eight episos explorg the history of the Cooma Correctnal Centre as a "gay prison" the mid to late 1900s and clus terviews wh mat om that time. "I'd walked past that prison multiple tim as a teenager gog through my own stggle wh my homosexualy, " he said.

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