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Contents:
- 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
- JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
- THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO ATRALIAN FOOTBALL'S HOTTT HUNKS
- TOP ASIE MALE ONLYFANS AND HOTTT ASIE GAY ONLYFANS 2023
- ATRALIAN GAY MEN ARE G FEWER NDOMS BUT ARE HAVG MORE SAFER SEX
- STAFF MEMBER REVEALS ‘SEEDY’ SI OF ATRALIAN GAY PORN SE THAT SNARED NRL STAR
- ‘GAY GLASS CEILG’: WHY MORE FEME MEN GET PASSED OVER FOR LEARSHIP ROL
- A GAY MAN'S STORY SNAPSHOTS
- SISTER TACTICS ED BY GAY PORN SE ALL ATRALIAN BOYS THAT SNARED NRL STAR KURT CAPEWELL
- “I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…
- A GAY FARMER ON LOVE, ISOLATN, AND DISPTG THE MEAT INDTRY ATRALIA
- THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN MASCULY AND INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA AMONGST ATRALIAN GAY MEN
- DISVER HOW SSIEBUM BEME THE ULTIMATE INIC ATRALIAN BRAND FOR GAY MEN
10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
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The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert (1994)While same-sex marriage was only ma legal Atralia 2017, the untry has a fairly strong rerd on LGBT rights, and Sydney is one of the most gay-iendly ci the world. The Set (1970) is the first Atralian film wh homosexualy as a central theme, while gay men appeared sexploatn favour such as Atralia after Dark (1975) and The ABCs of Love and Sex: Atralia Style (1978), which H was for homosexualy. Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release Max 2: The Road Warrr (1981) featured a gay villa (the leather-clad Wez, enraged by the slayg of his lover), while more sympathetic homosexual characters appeared prison drama Stir (1980) and fay melodrama Mull (1988).
The 1990s were a goln era for gay Ozzie films, while the new lennium has seen a glut of low-budget gay surfer dramas, cludg the easy-on-the-eye Newstle (2008), the nihilistic Drown (2015) and the downright bizarre Tan L (2006).
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
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The Naked Bunyip (1970)Homosexualy was tnip to many of the filmmakers behd the wave of sexploatn documentari that flourished Atralia the 1970s, which often served as an exce to show tillatg shots of lbians gettg down to bs the bedroom.
The film draws parallels between the close mascule relatnships that form unr the Atralian phenomenon of ‘mathip’ and homosexualy, while talkg heads discs the importance of crimalisg gay sex, which at the time of the documentary was a crimal offence Atralia. Bond himself was gay, an early bar scene looks like a scene om William Friedk’s S&M thriller Cisg (1980), while is clear that some sort of sexual act, probably a rape, tak place between the teacher and Doc after a vlent stggle, sendg the protagonist to another spiral of spair.
JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
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The Clic (1982)In this fun and bawdy bo of scy edy and sex tn aid, we dip to a day the life of a VD clic, where a laid-back doctor (Chris Haywood) and a pdish medil stunt (Simon Burke) tend to patients of all walks of life, om ank sex workers to ashamed hoewiv, om promiscuo gay men to cheatg hbands. Appalled when a motached man the wag room flirts wh him, the stunt’s homophobia be manift the dramatic scene when he realis the doctor, too, is gay, snarlg: “Those men e here and they drop their pants for you.
The Everlastg Secret Fay is one such film, an often homophobic tale of a young man who be termed to climb the social ladr and live the high life when he be the object of sire of a closeted homosexual polician. It’s an easy film to mock, and s kky scen of bondage and a (thankfully off-screen) paful-soundg sex act wh a large crab teeter to mp, and suggt the filmmaker’s opn of gay men may not be very high.
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But ’s wickedly entertag, Arthur Dignam is excellent as the polician, and ’s a unique film that uld not have been ma at any other time, wh sex scen too graphic for before the 1980s and an anti-gay streak too unpalatable for the 1990s.
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Filled wh quotable l and gags (not least the monstroly polilly rrect “the only bang you’re ever gonna get” eback that Bernatte serv a homophobic woman), the film was adapted to a hugely succsful mil that toured worldwi. For much of s length, the film feels very post-gay; Isaac (Ewen Llie), our antihero, a moody Greek Atralian who unearths some unpalatable fay secrets when he returns to Greece followg the unexpected ath of his father, is certaly not fed by his homosexualy.
ATRALIAN GAY MEN ARE G FEWER NDOMS BUT ARE HAVG MORE SAFER SEX
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The plot self is a gay staple: Mike (Tristan Barr) velops a csh on William (Lus Lehan), the new boy at school, and the two are assigned to work on a project together, a vio reimagg of Romeo and Juliet. Gayby Baby (2015)Over three years the makg, Maya Newell’s sensive and often very funny documentary follows four gay upl wh children, and the everyday challeng they face, some of which have nothg to do wh their sexualy. Matt’s birth mother is the member of a homophobic church, and he qutns her beliefs at every opportuny, while Graham, an adopted 11-year-old who n’t read, fac new challeng when his dads move to Fiji wh him and enurage him to keep their sexualy a secret owg to s nservative society.
STAFF MEMBER REVEALS ‘SEEDY’ SI OF ATRALIAN GAY PORN SE THAT SNARED NRL STAR
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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. “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.
‘GAY GLASS CEILG’: WHY MORE FEME MEN GET PASSED OVER FOR LEARSHIP ROL
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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. “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. 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.
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.
A GAY MAN'S STORY SNAPSHOTS
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The Gay Ex-Servic Associatn was followed by 'G-force' 1996 and then by DEFGLIS 2002 – the Defence Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr and Intersex Informatn Service. 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.
Send your suggtns via @newsHQ | @the_mattyoung7 David Pock (Super 15)The Wallabi skipper has been outspoken agast homophobia and is a strong advote of gay marriage. The ntt, which took place South Ai, is, as the webse explas, tend to "spire and empower gay men to e together a public performance that would show the world that beg gay enpass a broad spectm. It was our hope that by brgg the men together they would share their experienc to open both each others' as well as the public's ey that many regns on our pla beg gay is a challenge and a fight for basic human rights.
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Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras – SGLMG is one of the olst and ntuoly operatg LGBTQ+ anizatns Atralia and was built on the foundatns laid by early muny activists who fought for queer rights a time of opprsn. Midsumma Ftival - this annual ftival Melbourne is one of Atralia’s leadg and long-nng LGBTQ+ events and is nsired alongsi Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras as one of the major pri celebratns the untry. He was disgraced as a homosexual by his brother--law 1931 and beme the subject of the famo statement by Kg Gee V: “I thought people like that always shot themselv.
“I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…
Gay, lbian, bisexual, trans and queer soccer players who are publicly out — now at least 94 total — make up almost 13% of all the athlet petg the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports has found. “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.
A GAY FARMER ON LOVE, ISOLATN, AND DISPTG THE MEAT INDTRY ATRALIA
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. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.
THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN MASCULY AND INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA AMONGST ATRALIAN GAY MEN
'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.
Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".
DISVER HOW SSIEBUM BEME THE ULTIMATE INIC ATRALIAN BRAND FOR GAY MEN
"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.
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. An ex-employee at a Gold Coast-based amatr porn pany that tricked an NRL star to appearg a gay porn film has revealed the “most ridiculo part of the whole operatn”. Sce s humble begngs 1980, The Laird is now well regnised throughout the gay muny, both lol and ternatnal and like s 'sister-venu’ Club 80 and The Peel, remas a staple of the lol scene.
In 1998 The Laird and Club 80 were granted ‘Male-only’ stat by the Victorian Civil and Admistrative Tribunal (VCAT) ference to their history and service to the gay muny.