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Contents:

• WHAT I LEARNED WORKG A NAKED GAY BAR
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• GAY BEAST
• ‘MEN WERE STTERG EVERYWHERE’: QUIRY HEARS OF STRG OF VLENT CINTS AT SYDNEY GAY BEATS
• GAY BRISBANE
• GAY NEIGHBORHOOD FRANKSTON EAST
• AMERIN STT JOHNSON'S FATAL FALL OFF SYDNEY CLIFF LED GAY HATE CRIME
• STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS

WHAT I LEARNED WORKG A NAKED GAY BAR

In the ner-suburban streets of Melbourne’s north si, there’s a lol gay bar and club lled Sircu, known for tradg all throughout the weekend, offerg nights filled wh crackg bos of drag queen baret and beer-swiggg burly is slightly ls known about this northern venue, however, is a cur event that ns on Monday and Tuday nights: at is a mens-only homosexual soiree that scrib self as “our take on the Fzroy lol pub”, wh a key element that sets apart om the rt: It’s a naked gay bar.

And y, I would do this all the ncept of nudy at gay venu is no novel ia; the pursu of gay sexual liberatn, many a queer bar has seen exposed rear ends (and other parts) fly ee the tert of sexual exprsn, whether partially unclothed or even ADAM prents an alternative, however, is the herently social element of the event. What do offer is an opportuny for gay men to nverse wh one another, offerg liberatn through a unique experience – beg entirely isn’t for everyone.

Am I gym-f, buff-and-ripped, body-betiful enough for this sndalo gay scene? I’ve laid ey on all kds of bodi – and found that no matter what society might em as “impediments”, they’re all perfectly okay, jt as they enter the gay muny is to acknowledge a culture that often prris the body betiful over a sense of belongg – yet at ADAM, patrons are met wh kdns. Through workg at a naked gay bar, I’ve e to realise that our boundari—those that nfe our propensy for warm-hearted teractn—aren’t always social.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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GAY BEAST

All are wele - Lbian, Gay, Transgenr, Bisexual and Fluid. The Beats, pecially around Gsberg, laid the foundatn for later synergi created by gay poets.

‘MEN WERE STTERG EVERYWHERE’: QUIRY HEARS OF STRG OF VLENT CINTS AT SYDNEY GAY BEATS

After the Send World War, San Francis slowly beme home to both a gay bar subculture and a homophile activist movement, which mostly operated isolatn om each other. There was a burgeong Beat culture North Beach, two homosexual bar payola sndals volvg the police partment and the mayor, and an vasive police crackdown agast gay bars that lasted three years.

The San Francis Beats and the gays had a symbtic relatnship. " One uld say the same about the unrground culture of gay leathermen that was about to emerge. Homosexualy was part of the North Beach scene.

GAY BRISBANE

Many of the Beats were homosexual, cludg Gsberg, Jack Spicer, Robert Dunn, and Rob Blaser.

Gsberg slashed through gay stereotyp of gay male sexualy wh Howl's celebratn of joyo and even holy sexual unn. He served as a bridge between the tolerant lerary world and the emergg gay polil scene. Both Beats and gays challenged the nformist prsur of the .

Thanks to the Beats, gays uld now view themselv as nonnformists rather than mentally ill rebels wh a e. North Beach was home to gay and lbian bars, cludg the Black Cat, an area stutn, as well as gay cisg areas, wh all spreadg down to Polk Street and to the Tenrlo.

GAY NEIGHBORHOOD FRANKSTON EAST

Gsberg scribed as "the greatt gay bar Ameri. " The bar's owner, Sol Stoumen, was unwillg to make the payoffs expected that era of proprietors whose clientele clud homosexuals. Th began the nnectn between gay bars and gay polics.

He even beme the first out gay person to n for supervisor San Francis. His 5, 600 vot forhadowed the powerful polil nstuency that gays and lbians would bee. The happengs at the Black Cat eventually led to the formatn of the Tavern Guild, a aln of gay bars, 1962.

AMERIN STT JOHNSON'S FATAL FALL OFF SYDNEY CLIFF LED GAY HATE CRIME

The Guild retaed a lawyer and bail bondsman for anyone arrted or near a gay bar, and published a brochure on how to al wh beg arrted or harassed by policemen. The rise of the Guild gave polil legimacy to gay bars, fendg their right to be ee om arbrary harassment. Group name:Rabow Social Melbourne • Melbourne, AUGroup name:Rabow Social MelbourneMelbourne, AUSun, July 30 · 24:30 UTCSunday walk/lunch Group name:Rabow Social Melbourne • Melbourne, AUGroup name:Rabow Social MelbourneMelbourne, AUSat, Sept 16 · 08:00 UTCThe Great Gay Meetup- September 16th, MoorabbGroup name:The Great Gay Meetup • Melbourne, AUGroup name:The Great Gay MeetupMelbourne, AUSat, Aug 19 · 24:30 UTCAnniversary Trail - Fairfield - Hughdale - CyGroup name:Bent Kranks Meetup • Melbourne, AUGroup name:Bent Kranks MeetupMelbourne, AUFri, Aug 25 · 09:00 UTCLGBTQ+ Ladi Melbourne Meetup ? Speed DatgGroup name:Melbourne Meetup • Melbourne, AUGroup name:Melbourne MeetupMelbourne, AUMon, July 31 · 08:30 UTCMedatn Group name:Queer Medatn Melbourne • Melbourne, AUGroup name:Queer Medatn MelbourneMelbourne, AU.

But when Orville Peck’s myster barone follows the twangy guar to “My mama told me when I was young/ We are all born superstars, ” brgs the gay anthem to another level. If you walk to a gay club wh the next few months and don’t hear the openg, heart-poundg stras of Vct’s “Kill My Heart, ” ll the police, bee a crime has been mted. But on the other end of the spectm was Bronski Beat’s much grimmer pictn of a suburban teen’s gay-bashg and subsequent ostracizatn om his disapprovg fay, “Smalltown Boy.

”The stark and narrative vio, scribed by Rose as an “un-glamoro” “silent movie” ( featur no flashy performance footage, dance sequenc, or neon fashns like many other MTV vios of the era), picts the tular character, played by the new wave tr’s openly gay ontman Jimmy Somerville, clumsily and unsuccsfully makg a pass at a handsome jock at a lol swimmg pool; this unfortunately leads to him beg vic attacked an alley by the jock’s homophobic iends. I thk 's a very mon experience for people, and I thk even go beyond the gay issue: people who jt are rejected and thrown out like that, ” says Rose. They were gog to pot out the sential problems and opprsns volved beg gay at that time, which was you were que likely to get beaten up somewhere, or thrown out by fay.

STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS

”Jimmy Somerville fac a homophobic gang Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy" vio. “There were a lot of artists [ the ‘80s] who were gay but not open about , like Boy Gee, Gee Michael, Freddie Mercury, Elton John — the people we now thk have always been out, but they were not out 1984. Frankie Go to Hollywood were really the first on who me out and said, ‘Well, yeah, we're gay.

”Somerville wasn’t a profsnal actor (and neher was the man who nvcgly played the vio’s stern-faced policeman, London Rerds’ openly gay executive Col Bell), but his nuanced performance was so grippg bee, as Rose explas , “The story was very close to him.