The Secret History of Atralia's Gay Diggers | SBS Voic

Contents:

• JAGUARS NFL ACH OUT AS GAY US SPORTS FIRST
• JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
• COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'
• GAY ATRALIA
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS

JAGUARS NFL ACH OUT AS GAY US SPORTS FIRST

Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual.

JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA

They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy.

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

The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch. “We n see the impact of preventn strategi like creasg HIV ttg, treatment as preventn, and pre-exposure prophylaxis particularly among gay and bisexual men, for whom new diagnos have been droppg signifintly sce 2014. They show that the majory (57 per cent) of new HIV s ntue to be diagnosed among gay and bisexual men.

Atralia has achieved a remarkable 57 per cent rctn new HIV diagnos among gay and bisexual men sce 2013, showsg the succs of prehensive approach to HIV preventn wh this populatn. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday (Friday AEST) what is believed to be a first for a male ach US profsnal, who has been wh the Jaguars sce 2021, told Outsports he ma the cisn to e out hop of spirg others while beg te to who he really is, as reported by The New York Post. "We n see the impact of preventn strategi like creasg HIV ttg, treatment as preventn, and pre-exposure prophylaxis particularly among gay and bisexual men, for whom new diagnos have been droppg signifintly sce 2014.

They show that the majory (57%) of new HIV s ntue to be diagnosed among gay and bisexual men.

GAY ATRALIA

Atralia has achieved a remarkable 57% rctn new HIV diagnos among gay and bisexual men sce 2013, showsg the succs of prehensive approach to HIV preventn wh this populatn. I like to say to people that I realised I was gay right after I first had sex wh a du.

For many years, I’d believed that people my town wouldn’t tolerate anyone gay. Once I was livg away, however, I realised that wasn’t my hometown that didn’t like me beg gay; I didn’t like myself for beg gay.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS

My sex life and my sexualy were the gossip sphere for such a small amount of time that, by the time I returned to Atralia, people had actually fotten that I’d intified as gay.

Beg gay a small untry town means I still do all the normal thgs I did before I me out. 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".