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Contents:

• MICHAEL HURLEYASPECTS OF GAY AND LBIAN LIFE SEVENTI MELBOURNE
• THE BEST ST KILDA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ST KILDA
• GAY NIGHTLIFE KANSAS CY: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• GAY GOLD COAST
• THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE

MICHAEL HURLEYASPECTS OF GAY AND LBIAN LIFE SEVENTI MELBOURNE

The beach is also known for beg a hub of Melbourne's LGBTQ+ muny, and is sometim referred to as the "gay beach" due to s populary wh LGBTQ+ dividuals and the many LGBTQ+ iendly bs and events that are held the area. The gay beach is also well nnected to the cy center by a work of pestrian paths and walkg trails.

So if you fd yourself Melbourne and you're lookg to drop towel on a gay-iendly beach, be sure to make a beele for St Kilda Beach. Michael HurleyAspects of Gay and Lbian Life Seventi Melbourne. I doubt at that pot I had ever heard the word 'gay', and I did not know that some homosexuals Atralia referred to themselv as 'mp'.

Nor had I ever been to a bar where homosexuals ngregated, though I thk I had heard mours about the Albury Oxford Street, but maybe that was later. Boys the Band dramatised the liv of ne homosexual men at a birthday party. Homosexual acts were illegal every state and terrory Atralia, and aversn therapy was s heyday.

THE BEST ST KILDA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ST KILDA

The gay and women's gay liberatn movements gave a dramatic new polil impet to what was already occurrg. 1 Public lbian and gay polics changed natnally wh the formatn of the Campaign Agast Moral Persecutn (Camp) Sydney September. The shock and excement of open, self-acceptg homosexualy provid by media verage of Camp was followed by reviews of Dennis Altman's Homosexual: opprsn and liberatn (1971) Time magaze Febary 1972, the Age July and the Atralian Augt.

Altman's book documented and articulated a ant 'gay' polics that refed secrecy and shame while also challengg activism that only worked wh 'the system'. One character was Don Flayson, an openly homosexual lawyer.

GAY NIGHTLIFE KANSAS CY: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

Gay Rights monstratn, Melbourne, c. I was teachg a untry high school, touch wh Society Five and Gay Lib but as a nsumer rather than an active participant. 'Cap's' drag shows were later referred to as 'legendary Sydney's gay history', but any such sense was beyond who I was at the time.

5 Others loved the drag shows that acpanied some parts of gay life. I had much to learn about tolerance and open-mdns, and the multiple ways gay men and lbians lived their liv.

GAY GOLD COAST

When I met him 1979 Clifton Hill, Ken was the procs of nnectg wh gay activists. Pentridge was not foreign to gays. The stigma of beg homosexual...

Let's change that now famo le om the play Boys the Band 'Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gay rpse' and not punish homosexuals for dog what for them is the most natural thg the world'.

THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE

She joed Gay Liberatn when formed at Melbourne Universy 1972. My boyiend and I began to attend parti at the Camp Inc offic Darlg Street, Balma, oppose the fire statn, and universy gay liberatn danc.

I also e materials and databas held the Atralian Lbian and Gay Archiv. 12 I seek to give a sense of some of what was occurrg, the social and polil relatns between some gay men and lbians, and a feel for how some people thought about what they were dog at the time or hdsight. They end wh the fifth natnal homosexual nference 1979 and the openg 1980 of The Peel, Club 80, the Laird, Inflatn, and Ryrs.

Not all of realised; was the cy's latent homosexualy on the rise. We are homosexual and proud of '. Camp was about to be supplanted by 'gay', an emergg polics of social inty that s more radil forms also challenged how heterosexualy and genr were socially anised.