Explore our gay travel gui to Atralia featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more!
Contents:
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
- JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
- 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
- THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO ATRALIAN FOOTBALL'S HOTTT HUNKS
- ATRALIAN GAY MEN ARE G FEWER NDOMS BUT ARE HAVG MORE SAFER SEX
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
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Bt ci Sydney The LGBTQ pal of Atralia, Sydney is one of the most welg and gay-iendly travel statns the world wh a substantial pk tourism scene, pecially durg Mardi Gras when the whole cy sparkl. Proudly ostentat, the cy boasts many gay and gay-iendly bars and clubs cludg Sly Fox on a Wednday night, Arq, Stonewall Hotel, Palms on Oxford and the Imperial Hotel. In addn to Melbourne, Daylford also has a large gay muny and every March hosts Atralia’s largt untry queer ftival: ChillOut Ftival.
Further north, Cairns, Noosa Heads and The Great Barrier Reef are popular travel playgrounds for the gay and lbian muny – however, you may fd regns the untrysi to be ls acceptg.
Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, Sydney, Febary – March Celebratg their 40th anniversary 2018, the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras is Atralia’s largt LGBTQ celebratn.
JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
Meet Jake, a young gay Atralian who grew up a ral untry town. His g out got some surprisg - and some pretty ordary reactns. Read about his experience at * gay men australia *
PriFt, Perth, October – November What began as a muny movement prottg discrimatory laws agast the gay and lbian muny has sce grown to PriFt, a ftivalthat clus Perth Pri Fairday and the Perth Pri para. The Secret History of Atralia's Gay Diggers. On Anzac Day, 1982, five gay men walked up to the Shre of Remembrance Melbourne.
10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
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They were om the Gay Ex-Servic Associatn, and they rried a wreath dited to ‘all brothers and sisters who died durg the wars’—but they would never get to lay at the shre. “I don’t know where all the gays and poofters have e om, ” he was later famoly quoted as sayg, “I don’t remember a sgle one om World War Two. “There were thoands of ex-servicemen who were mp, I thk I went through 300 of them myself, ” he told the magaze, a py of which is prerved by the Atralian Lbian and Gay Archiv.
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In the terts of general happs we re-arranged some room occupants and eventually got all the homos one block, " he said. “A quarter of homosexual s Queensland crimal urts across the war volved airmen, seamen, pilots or others the ary, ” he says.
THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO ATRALIAN FOOTBALL'S HOTTT HUNKS
While Atralia’s official ban on gay and lbian service was repealed 1992, LGBT+ soldiers served long before then. “There n be ltle doubt there were gay soldiers [...
Before repeal, the Atralian Defence Force policy was to remove gay men “sympathetilly and wh discretn”.
ATRALIAN GAY MEN ARE G FEWER NDOMS BUT ARE HAVG MORE SAFER SEX
But right back to Atralia's early years, Smaal says was easy for gay men to jo the armed forc. “The irony, of urse, was that they end up an all-male environment wh limed opportuny for female pany – the potential for homo-sex had never been greater, ” Smaal says.
Sometim was latent homosexualy, sometim otherwise ‘straight’ men found themselv havg sex wh other men.
“It was amazg the number of gay people the POW mp, ” the Atralian serviceman told Outrage, “well not so much gay as bisexual – bee they uldn’t get a woman they’d have a man.