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• CAIRNS GAY MEN’S DIRECTORY
• GAYIRNS
• GAYIRNS
• GAYIRNS
• GAYIRNS
• GAY CAIRNS
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS CAIRNS
• QUEENSLAND THROWS OUT PAST GAY NVICTNS AS MAN RELLS HIS ARRT FOR BEG GAY
• CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS
• CHIGO GAY BARS
• GAYIRNS
• GAYIRNS

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Here, the darkns, among the bh and the scb, men would nverge and engage sexual enunters, away om the judgement of society, hidg their tth a world where was actually 1988, homosexualy was still nsired illegal unr Queensland law.

But for those affected, for s across Atralia, hundreds of gay and bisexual dividuals were charged, nvicted and jailed for their and women who engaged nsensual homosexual activy uld be charged wh any number of offenc, rangg om cency to “unnatural offenc” and sodomy.

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Back then, beg gay was regard as a choice. “Gay bars weren’t around back then, they weren’t as prevalent, so gay men, bisexual men, men who weren’t out wh their wiv, for was the only way that you uld meet like-md other gay guys, ” Alan explaed to that night, Alan spotted a young, attractive man, who “I noticed lookg me up and down” young man was givg Alan all the signs; he was givg him “that” look, the look you give someone when you’re checkg them out.

“The police those days, I learned later, were notor for that [huntg and provokg gay men]. We’re not talkg about ancient tim, we’re talkg about recent livg memory when police rourc were alloted to entrappg young gay men. ”But today, Queensland Government will troduce legislatn to throw out past crimal nvictns for homosexualy, wh the premier also due to issue an official though homosexualy is no longer illegal Queensland, those who had been nvicted still had to clare their crimal rerd to potential employers to work the public servic, tn and childre her addrs on Thursday, Premier Palaszcz said: “You have been maligned and shamed, and for that we exprs our ep regret for the hurt you have suffered, ” she said.

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Public space has been a fg feature of morn homosexual subcultur. Like most wtern cultur, Queensland outlawed sex between men durg the neteenth and most of the twentieth century; the lol scientific muny nsired homosexuals as perverse and mentally-ill. Race Homosexualy was not rtricted to Csian populatn.

Some Islanrs me om societi where homosexual iatns were fundamental to beg a man, or where homosexual acts were tolerated male society.

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Urban subcultur, Beats and behavural s Patterns of urbanisatn and dtrialisatn ensured that Brisbane remaed the primary centre of any dimentary homosexual inty this perd, and the e of public space, pecially around transport hubs, was an important feature of this terrene. They blend together workg-class and middle-class men, married and unmarried men, those who nsired themselv as homosexual, and those who did not.

The offence vered acts of mutual masturbatn and oral sex public or private, givg the police a new tool to ntrol and nta unwanted homosexual behavur as they ramped up efforts to keep certa lotns unr surveillance. Patterns of effemacy and genr-versn were accepted forms of self-exprsn some circl and were certaly an embedd part of homosexual inty by the 1920s.