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• THE ATH OF DR DUNN: THE GAY HATE CRIME THAT CHANGED ATRALIA
• GAY ALAI

THE ATH OF DR DUNN: THE GAY HATE CRIME THAT CHANGED ATRALIA

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WAAC and M Clic mata a list of gay, bi & trans iendly GPs (if you are a service provir ntact so that we n discs addg you to the list! Ed: For clary, I don't thk doctors area homophobic.

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I thk a lot of them do not know about thgs like gay men needg anal and throat swabs, mental health servic that won't require you to expla the entirety of LGBT past to unrstand why the patient feels xyz, but mostly bee I'd rather not have to feel like I'm gettg sub-par re bee the doctor I've gone to only knows how to treat straight needs. If you are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and/or intify as a sexual and/or genr mory and are lookg for LGBTQ+ affirmg doctors, physicians, clicians, and healthre provirs, you have e to the right place. ”This is how a wns scribed the fal sends of Dr Gee Dunn’s life, as told to the ABC 2005, 33 years after the 41-year-old Universy of Alai amic drowned the River Torrens and posthumoly set motn the zegeist of gay law reform 10 May 1972 ath of Dr Gee Ian Ogilvie Dunn – spected to be at the hands of Alai’s police vice squad, at a time when homosexualy was outlawed every state Atralia – is an event enshred the narrative of the South Atralian LBTQI Christos Tslkas and his partner Wayne van r Stelt first learned of Dunn’s revered place SA’s legal history back the mid-1980s, when the two young Melbourne universy stunts ma their first road trip together to Alai.

“I remember gog to the Candlelight, which was one of the old queer clubs there, and hearg the story about what happened down at the river – hearg about the gay bashgs and police bashgs, ” he says. “There was still a real sense of beg a ontier town … we were the bourgeois, nice part of Alai, but we were gettg warngs om gay men we were talkg to pubs, sayg jt be really reful.

“Dunn died at a gay beat and we wanted that world to be munited the words of the mic … That’s been excg, workg on those two thgs, the sacred and the illic together. ”Legislative ground breakerThe background story documentg Dunn’s life is pellg, as historian Tim Reev n whe upper middle class, Atralian raised and Oxbridge ted history amic lived a secret life, as most gay men were forced to do, growg up the 1950s and 1960s has spent the better part of three s documentg the Dunn se, he served as a nsultant on the Watershed project and will be releasg his book The Death of Doctor Dunn at the Alai Wrer’s ftival on 9 March, where is beg lnched by David ath toll om Atralia’s long-standg crimalisatn of homosexualy – through murr, manslghter and suici – was far om unique the English speakg world, he says, but the rapidy of legislative chang followg Dunn’s ath was a world game police officers were early spected as the culprs who tossed Dunn, a man who spe his tn at Melbourne Grammar – an exclive school which prid self as much on s athletic prows as s scholastic rigour – was unable to an ternal police vtigatn prompted wispread public skepticism, Stland Yard tectiv were lled to vtigate penntly – but the subsequent fdgs tabled a parliamentary quiry found that “there was no real tentn of g anyone’s ath – this was merely a high-spired olic which went wrong. That seemgly good samaran was Bevan Spencer von Eem, subsequently nvicted of the abductn, sexual torture and murr of 15-year-old schoolboy Richard Kelv, and the spected killer of at least two other gay men whose s have never been solved.