1983. Gay Polics: Sydney’s Myster (and Dangero) ‘Gay Army’Posted on July 21, 2014 by Col Clews Anyone who was around the early 80s will remember the media’s hysteril rponse to AIDS and the ease wh which attributed to gay men. It wasn’t labelled ‘the gay plague’ or ‘gay bug’ out of sympathy…
Contents:
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
- ATRALIAN GAY HISTORY: PL DEXTER & THE GAY ARMY
- 160 GAY HISTORY TRIVIA QUTNS, ANSWERS, AND FUN FACTS
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
Kev Maxen, assistant ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is the first openly gay ach of a U.S. men’s profsnal league sport * australian gay history *
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. “A quarter of homosexual s Queensland crimal urts across the war volved airmen, seamen, pilots or others the ary, ” he says.
“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. “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.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
Steve Bull once raced agast time to try to save the memoirs of one of Mae's gay rights pneers. His trip led him down memory lane. * australian gay history *
There are multiple s of veterans beg arrted for homosexualy offenc after the war, tellg thori they were pursug sir disvered the armed forc. “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. 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.
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
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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.
ATRALIAN GAY HISTORY: PL DEXTER & THE GAY ARMY
Atralian televisn has been remarkably queer for a long time. In fact, LGBTQ+ characters and storyl filled Asie screens s before they did the US and UK. Now, one of the first openly gay men on Atralian TV is rearchg that history for a new documentary seri, Outrageo: The Queer History of Atralian TV.… * australian gay history *
Ford wr that female homosexualy was ls acknowledged pole society than male homosexualy - many recs had never heard of the term ‘lbian’. Rearch by Smaal and his lleague, renowned Atralian LGBT+ historian Graham Willett, found that the US reported to Atralia that they had disvered a large number of servicemen New Guea havg gay sex – and that Atralians were volved.
160 GAY HISTORY TRIVIA QUTNS, ANSWERS, AND FUN FACTS
“Homosexualy today is fed as beg attracted to your own sex, back then was largely fed by genr s – mascule or feme, 'bch' or 'butch', ” Smaal says.