Insi The Greatt Menace, The Podst That Exposed Atralia’s ‘gay Prison’ Experiment | The Dm

Contents:

• INSI THE GREATT MENACE, THE PODST THAT EXPOSED ATRALIA’S ‘GAY PRISON’ EXPERIMENT
• EXPOSG THE SHOCKG PLAN BEHD ATRALIA’S GAY PRISON
• THE GREATT MENACE: INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT

INSI THE GREATT MENACE, THE PODST THAT EXPOSED ATRALIA’S ‘GAY PRISON’ EXPERIMENT

The Greatt Menace: Insi the Gay Prison Experiment is an eight-part vtigative queer te crime documentary seri released globally by Audible. The seri lv to the history of Atralia’s ’gay prison’, tablished 1957 as part of a ernment operatn to eradite homosexualy, which was nsired ”the greatt menace to society” at the BriefThrough three years of rearch, Patrick Abboud and Simon Cunich unvered the paful past of the stutn and the shockg human experiments nducted si to ’treat’ homosexualy. The seri go beyond a typil te crime format, aimg to te and engage listeners while explorg the broar issu of homophobia, transphobia and the weaponizatn of shame.

By exposg the abe of human rights and the systematic efforts of the NSW Government and NSW Police to eradite homosexualy, the seri has raised public awarens and iated a mpaign for ernment stutns to acknowledge and apologize for their past actns. 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. 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.

EXPOSG THE SHOCKG PLAN BEHD ATRALIA’S GAY PRISON

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. ”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. SERIES SYNOPSIS Tucked away amongst snow-vered mountas is a ty Atralian town wh a dark secret, journalist Patrick Abboud hears whispers that was once home to the world’s only "gay prison”. A prison which specifilly rcerated gay men.

THE GREATT MENACE: INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT

At the centre of all was a vert ernment operatn to eradite “the greatt menace to society”: homosexualy.

Podst Seri2022Journalist Patrick Abboud hears whispers that there was once a world's only 'gay prison'.