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Contents:
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
- 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
- JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
- WELE TO OUR GAY ATRALIA TRAVEL BLOG
- GAY BRISBANE
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
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“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.
JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
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“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. When one man harassed Smh about beg gay, a iend remd him that Pkie was a three-time featherweight boxg champn. In the terts of general happs we re-arranged some room occupants and eventually got all the homos one block, " he said.
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“A quarter of homosexual s Queensland crimal urts across the war volved airmen, seamen, pilots or others the ary, ” he says. While Atralia’s official ban on gay and lbian service was repealed 1992, LGBT+ soldiers served long before then.
Before repeal, the Atralian Defence Force policy was to remove gay men “sympathetilly and wh discretn”.
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“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.