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Contents:

• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• THE 10 BEST ATRALIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ATRALIA
• THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE
• A GAY BAR FALLY RETURNS TO THE GOLD COAST WH HOP TO UNE 'DISNNECTED' MUNY
• THE BEST PERTH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PERTH
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
• GAY PERTH
• GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE
• A GAY BAR FALLY RETURNS TO THE GOLD COAST WH HOP TO UNE 'DISNNECTED' MUNY
• TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN SYDNEY

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

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Worst gay club Melbourne. There is new hope that the Gold Coast's "sttered" LGBTQI+ scene will fd a greater sense of muny after the cy's first gay bar more than two years pots:There hasn't been a dited LGBTQI+ safe venue on the Gold Coast for more than two yearsA new bar has opened Broadbeach aimed at the muny and s alliGold Coast Rabow Communi has weled the venue and says more are on the wayDan Dunn lnched Chameleon Lounge Bar last week to addrs what he scribed as a "disnnected" muny. "We seem to be losg the gay culture on the Gold Coast bee there was nothg, " he said.

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While Oxford Street is still the se of many of the longt-nng gay clubs Sydney, the fun isn’t relegated to Darlghurst alone. If you’re keen to really make a night of , keep an eye on the lik of Heaps Gay, Poof Doof, Hoe of Mce, Honcho Disko and Birdge (as well as the social media-elive Kooky) to fd out when their next soiree start planng your next night out, read on for our gui to some of Sydney’s favoure gay clubs, pubs and bars. Chg-a-lgsSure, ’s not officially a gay bar, but Chg-a-lgs draws a pendably queer crowd.

The ColombianOpen 9am ‘til 6am every day — y, you read that right — this sprawlg Oxford St hnt n always be unted on for a tipple the early 117-125 Oxford St, DarlghurstYou n fd all the tails for this year's Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras here. Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728). — Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective.

Home to several gay bars and famoly known as Brisbane’s red-light district, has a reputatn as a more crime-ridn lole, so be sure to keep your ws about you. It’s also the neighborhood home of the Big Gay Day street party, a fundraiser that supports lol gay anizatns. Along wh Fortu Valley; Teneriffe and New Farm are other popular gay-habed neighborhoods you may want to check out.

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The Gay Scene Brisbane. View the Gay Scene Brisbane. The bt gay bars MelbourneYou would thk what wh the fanfare surroundg Sydney's annual Mardi Gras ftival that the harbour cy was the clear rglear of Atralia's gay scene,..

Here are Melbourne’s top five gay snas and cise loung –.. The Secret History of Atralia's Gay Diggers.

On Anzac Day, 1982, five gay men walked up to the Shre of Remembrance Melbourne.

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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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When one man harassed Smh about beg gay, a iend remd him that Pkie was a three-time featherweight boxg champn. "We had s of homosexuals really fallg love. 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.

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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”. 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.

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“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. Ined, the forc of World War One and World War Two may have been a surprisgly liberatg place for gay men and women.

Gay bars Kgs Cross bulged wh servicemen and sailors as warships me to port.

There are multiple s of veterans beg arrted for homosexualy offenc after the war, tellg thori they were pursug sir disvered the armed forc.

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After the war, a gay bar lled ‘Diggers’ even opened Sydney. “I do not believe I have ever loved a woman more eply than my mate, ” said one Atralian WWII veteran, who went on to assert the relatnship wasn't homosexual. The l between gay love and straight mathip were difficult to discern for some.

Ackerley, an openly gay Brish war hero om World War One, wrote an acclaimed play tled The Prisoners of War upon his return to England.

While Ackerley's work has not passed through to mastream textbooks, the works of a fellow gay ntemporary have. Absent om lson plans is Owen's apparent homosexualy, hidn by his fay but unvered by his bgrapher. Before the war's end, he spent time socialisg wh other gay Brish lerary lumari.

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But gay soldiers weren’t only fightg for the alli.

Magn Hirschfeld documented numero stanc of homosexualy among German soldiers durg World War One. The gay Jewish doctor – who was later exiled by the Nazis – wrote of how German soldiers would risk severe reprimand to sneak off to the lols’ ho occupied France to have sex.

Unr fire, gay men would charge to “the thickt ra of bombs and the most adly attacks, ” Hirschfeld wrote. The experience of gay servicewomen closely paralleled their male unterparts. Ford wr that female homosexualy was ls acknowledged pole society than male homosexualy - many recs had never heard of the term ‘lbian’.

Durg World War One and most of World War Two, there was no ncerted effort to velop a policy on homosexualy Atralia's ary. The Amerins, however, were very ncerned about gay men the ranks.