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Contents:
- EXPOSG THE SHOCKG PLAN BEHD ATRALIA’S GAY PRISON
- COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'
- THE GREATT MENACE: INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT
- INSI THE GREATT MENACE, THE PODST THAT EXPOSED ATRALIA’S ‘GAY PRISON’ EXPERIMENT
- COOMA JAIL'S DARK PAST CLUS BEG WORLD'S ONLY 'GAY PRISON', PODST REVEALS
- ‘INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT’ — A ‘QUEER SERIAL’ AUDIBLE PODST — IS AN OBSSED QUT FOR INFO ABOUT THE ANTI-GAY ATRALIAN GOVT. CAMPAIGN VS. “THE GREATT MENACE TO SOCIETY: HOMOSEXUALY”
- COOMA 'GAY PRISON' PODSTERS LL FOR ERNMENT APOLOGY FOR ENTRAPMENT, PERSECUTN OF HOMOSEXUAL MEN
- ‘INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT’ — A ‘QUEER SERIAL’ AUDIBLE PODST — IS AN OBSSED QUT FOR INFO ABOUT THE ANTI-GAY ATRALIAN GOVT. CAMPAIGN VS. “THE GREATT MENACE TO SOCIETY: HOMOSEXUALY”
- A TE CRIME POD ABOUT ATRALIA’S ‘GAY ONLY’ PRISON IS HERE AND WE’RE ALREADY FKN HOOKED
- RSIA ‘HAS SECRETLY OPENED NAZI-STYLE PRISONS WHERE HUNDREDS OF GAY MEN ARE HELD AND SOME MURRED,’ LOL REPORTS CLAIM
- 9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE
EXPOSG THE SHOCKG PLAN BEHD ATRALIA’S GAY PRISON
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The gay marriage bate Atralia had boiled over, and while he was verg an anti-gay marriage prott, the openly gay journalist was mobbed and the SBS work Christmas party, he was unwdg wh a uple of drks, then planned to h the dancefloor before gog home and takg a break om reportg for a while. Journalist Patrick Abboud has created a podst about the world’s only gay Rohan ThomsonThat was exactly when his iend and -worker Simon Cunich walked up to him to say he’d received an trigug story tip.
“Simon said a iend of an acquatance had told him that there had once been a prison somewhere NSW that was set up to rcerate gay men, ” says Abboud.
’”Abboud, wh Cunich as -producer, voted the next three years of his life to fdg out about , and the rult is The Greatt Menace, an eight-part Audible Origal lotn of the jail NSW shocked Patrick Rohan ThomsonIt sounds like somethg out of Rsia or East Germany or the US ep south, but happened Cooma, the small town an hour-and-a-half drive south of Canberra known as the gateway to the Snowy 1957, the town’s jail, which had been closed the early 1900s, was re-opened wh a new rem – was to be a prison for homosexuals. Abboud disvered that the prison was a ordated effort between ernment and police to provi a pool of subjects for study and experimentatn to disver a “cure” for homosexualy. As Abboud searched for throughout the seri, he felt that “they eher didn’t disver what they wanted, and uldn’t cure homosexualy, so they need to bury the report, or the thgs they did were so horrific that they never wanted anyone to see the tail.
COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'
The Greatt Menace: Insi the Gay Prison Experiment: Wh Patrick Abboud. Journalist Patrick Abboud hears whispers that there was once a world's only 'gay prison'. A prison that specifilly rcerated gay men. His vtigatn to what happened si reveals the full story for the first time." data-id="ma * gay prison experiment *
Abboud terviews gay men now their 70s and 80s who tell raw and revealg stori of beg targeted, entrapped and arrted by unrver police at gay beats such as public toilets, parks and beach. Homosexualy is a choice, jt look at the prisons, Republin nrosurgeon Ben Carson said on CNN.
"Bee a lot of people who go to prison go to prison straight -- and when they e out, they're gay. We’ll jump to the pot here: There is no nclive evince to support Carson’s claim that "a lot of people" make a swch om heterosexual to homosexual while prison. Further, the medil muny tends to nclu that homosexualy is not a matter of choice -- notably the Amerin Psychologil Associatn.
Of those 24, 18 changed om straight to bisexual, three changed om bisexual to straight, and one each changed om bisexual to gay, gay to bisexual, and gay to straight.
THE GREATT MENACE: INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT
The podster sharg stori about the world's only "gay prison", once loted regnal New South Wal, hop people will e forward wh new leads about the dark chapter LGBTQI+ history. * gay prison experiment *
It’s possible that people go to prison unaware of their sexualy, and then once they are exposed to homosexual behavr as an mate, they realize that they are gay or bisexual, Helen Eigenberg, who also studi prison sexualy as a profsor at the Universy of Tennsee at Chattanooga, said an terview wh PoliFact. They might thk that jt bee they played a role a homosexual act, they are now gay, which is not necsarily te. Greg Herek, a psychology profsor at the Universy of California Davis who studi sexual orientatn, poted to a natnally reprentative study that shows the vast majory of gay men and women do not perceive their sexual orientatn as a rult of choice.
People n change their behavr -- such as engagg homosexual behavr prison -- but that do not equate to a change orientatn, Bailey, the Northwtern rearcher, told PoliFact. Carson said, "A lot of people who go to prison straight, and when they e out they’re gay. PoliFact, "Tim Pawlenty says scientists are " dispute" over whether beg gay is a choice, " July 13, 2011.
PoliFact, "Tim Pawlenty says there's no scientific ncln that beg gay is geic, " July 13, 2011. Washgton Post, "What experts say about Ben Carson’s turng-gay--prison claim, " March 4, 2015.
INSI THE GREATT MENACE, THE PODST THAT EXPOSED ATRALIA’S ‘GAY PRISON’ EXPERIMENT
Insi the Gay Prison Experiment is a Free Audible Podst Origal om Atralia. This 5 hour podst ee and downloadable all at once on parent pany Amazon’s se. We are through jt the first chapter and we are hooked. Listen wh . [This post ntas vio, click to play] “Tucked awa... * gay prison experiment *
Sexual Rearch and Social Policy, "Demographic, Psychologil, and Social Characteristics of Self-Intified Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults a US Probabily Sample, " September 2010. On October 1, 1944, the first of two sets of medil experiments volvg stratn are performed on homosexuals at the Buchenwald ncentratn mp, near Weimar, Germany. Euthanasia was also performed regularly on Jews, Romani people and mentally ill MORE: The Pk Triangle: From Nazi Label to Symbol of Gay PriAmong the celt of Buchenwald’s overseers was the famo Ilsa Koch, wife of SS mandant Karl Koch and known as the “Wch of Buchenwald.
Image source, The Greatt MenaceImage ptn, Cooma jail was once ed exclively to imprison gay menSet one of the lst and wdit small towns Atralia, Cooma prison holds a dark only was reopened 1957 wh the specific purpose of rceratg men for "homosexual offenc", was also said to be ed as a human ttg ground wh the ultimate goal of eraditg homosexualy om 's jail is believed to have been the only known homosexual prison the world, acrdg to a new now, even some prison staff say they didn't know the real reason gay prisoners were segregated Strzelecki, 66, started as a ctodial servic officer at the prison 1979, and later set up the Corrective Servic Mm Cooma. We'd red stamp homosexual prisoners wh 'N/A': non-associatn wh mastream prisons, " he tells the BBC. "You wouldn't bunk two together… that was one of our biggt problems - keepg an eye on them, " says Mr New, now source, Thomas McCoyImage ptn, L Strzelecki (left) worked at the jail before settg up the lol Corrective Servic MmHistoril documents suggt New South Wal (NSW) Jtice Mister Reg Downg took cred for tablishg the reportedly exprsed "pri" at his pet project, tellg the Sydney Morng Herald 1957: "Nowhere Europe or Ameri did I fd any prisons where homosexuals were separated om other prisoners.
COOMA JAIL'S DARK PAST CLUS BEG WORLD'S ONLY 'GAY PRISON', PODST REVEALS
Gay prison experiment: A ee dible podst on an Atralia gay prison the 50s where rceratn clud human prison experiment. Follow a podst qut by journalist Patrick Abboud * gay prison experiment *
" A 1958 prs statement om Mr Downg nam Cooma prison as "the only penal stutn the world, so far as is known, voted specifilly to the tentn of homosexual offenrs".
Prisoners at Cooma were rcerated for beg gay, or crim related to beg gay; homosexualy wasn't crimalised NSW until dranian state laws 1955 had cracked down on homosexualy. "The legislative chang were very wi-rangg their asslt on the civil liberti of men thought to have homoerotic sir. Attempted buggery rried five years, and a harsher crackdown, a clse was add statg "wh or whout the nsent of such person" source, State Library of NSWImage ptn, Reg Downg exprsed pri separatg gay prisoners om othersBoth Mr Wotherspoon and the podst ce evince of police actg as "agents provotrs" to ce men to m homosexual acts.
"They'd e hunky policemen to entrap gay men by enticg them to have sex, ually public toilets, " Mr Wotherspoon 1958, the NSW ernment announced a mtee of quiry to the "e and treatment of homosexualy". It nam Cooma prison as "a special stutn for nvicted homosexual offenrs" which will "facilate the vtigatn" a "scientific evaluatn of the problem and possible solutn" has been found, Mr Downg is quoted as sayg, "the ernment nsirs that the problem mt be attacked wh vigour".
‘INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT’ — A ‘QUEER SERIAL’ AUDIBLE PODST — IS AN OBSSED QUT FOR INFO ABOUT THE ANTI-GAY ATRALIAN GOVT. CAMPAIGN VS. “THE GREATT MENACE TO SOCIETY: HOMOSEXUALY”
We spoke to Patrick Abboud about his new te crime podst 'The Greatt Menace', which centr around Atralia's secret gay only prison. * gay prison experiment *
' and nclud that 'overmotherg' was "a major e of homosexualy, " says podst creator and journalist Patrick Abboud, who has spent years rearchg the prison. "We know they failed their missn to eradite homosexualy bee our podst reveals gay men havg ongog relatnships the prison. "The elive report has never been found - somethg Mr Abboud says amounts to a "ver up" source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Cooma is a town of about 7, 000 peopleIt's unclear when homosexual prisoners were no longer sent to Cooma.
Corrective Servic NSW and the NSW Department of Communi and Jtice cled to ment on the allegatns, cg their "historil nature" Abboud believ gay prisoners may have been sent there until the early 1980s, cg a 1982 statement om the rrective servic mister claimg the policy still stood. Sex offenrs were also sent to Cooma and this further stigmatised gay prisoners, says Mr Wotherspoon says, wh recent parliamentary bate of a Relig Discrimatn Bill threateng to allow discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, such recent history rri a soberg warng. SERIES SYNOPSIS Tucked away amongst snow-vered mountas is a ty Atralian town wh a dark secret, journalist Patrick Abboud hears whispers that was once home to the world’s only "gay prison”.
COOMA 'GAY PRISON' PODSTERS LL FOR ERNMENT APOLOGY FOR ENTRAPMENT, PERSECUTN OF HOMOSEXUAL MEN
At the centre of all was a vert ernment operatn to eradite “the greatt menace to society”: homosexualy. More than 78 percent intified themselv as heterosexual, and 8 percent intified themselv as homosexual; slightly more than 13 percent intified themselv as bisexual. The maximum-secury un had more self-intified homosexuals and bisexuals than the other two stutns.
The study did not fd an elevated rate of nsensual homosexual activy by the mat pared to the amount which they engaged prr to rceratn.
‘INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT’ — A ‘QUEER SERIAL’ AUDIBLE PODST — IS AN OBSSED QUT FOR INFO ABOUT THE ANTI-GAY ATRALIAN GOVT. CAMPAIGN VS. “THE GREATT MENACE TO SOCIETY: HOMOSEXUALY”
One-fourth of the prison sample dited they had engaged some form of nsensual homosexual activy while rcerated; 18 percent had engaged homosexual activy prr to rceratn. The -prison homosexual activy found this study was not as high as that reported by other studi.
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A TE CRIME POD ABOUT ATRALIA’S ‘GAY ONLY’ PRISON IS HERE AND WE’RE ALREADY FKN HOOKED
The Greatt Menace: Insi the Gay Prison Experiment is an eight-part vtigative queer te crime documentary seri released globally by Audible. The seri lv to the history of Atralia’s ’gay prison’, tablished 1957 as part of a ernment operatn to eradite homosexualy, which was nsired ”the greatt menace to society” at the BriefThrough three years of rearch, Patrick Abboud and Simon Cunich unvered the paful past of the stutn and the shockg human experiments nducted si to ’treat’ homosexualy.
The seri go beyond a typil te crime format, aimg to te and engage listeners while explorg the broar issu of homophobia, transphobia and the weaponizatn of shame. By exposg the abe of human rights and the systematic efforts of the NSW Government and NSW Police to eradite homosexualy, the seri has raised public awarens and iated a mpaign for ernment stutns to acknowledge and apologize for their past actns. As celebratns ramp up ahead of Sydney's annual Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras this week, a dark part of Atralia's LGBTQI+ history is beg explored by a new pots:The Greatt Menace podst explor the dark past of Cooma's jailThe se reopened the 1950s as a "gay jail"Podst maker says was the world's only "gay prison"Podst The Greatt Menace has unearthed the tth behd the world's only "gay prison, " which operated the regnal New South Wal town of Cooma om 1957 to hoe men nvicted of homosexual historic jail and one-time asylum closed the early 1900s before s reopeng.
RSIA ‘HAS SECRETLY OPENED NAZI-STYLE PRISONS WHERE HUNDREDS OF GAY MEN ARE HELD AND SOME MURRED,’ LOL REPORTS CLAIM
"When someone tells you that there was a gay prison signed to rcerate gay men that self was shockg enough. (Supplied: Patrick Abboud)The Amazon podst spends eight episos explorg the history of the Cooma Correctnal Centre as a "gay prison" the mid to late 1900s and clus terviews wh mat om that time. "I'd walked past that prison multiple tim as a teenager gog through my own stggle wh my homosexualy, " he said.
(Supplied)"I n't help but sometim feel like 's still the 50s and 60s when the NSW ernment was tryg to eradite homosexualy om the face of the earth, " he said.
Journalist Patrick Abboud hears whispers that was once home to the world’s only ‘gay prison’. At the centre of all was a vert ernment operatn to eradite ‘the greatt menace to society’: homosexualy.
9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE
Supposedly a prison was built the 50s specifilly to rcerate gay men… some sort of experiment.
ABBOUD: “When I started lookg to the story of a gay prison, I had no ia what I’d stumbled to, revealg…”.
ABBOUD: Tryg to unlock the story of the gay prison would fd me entangled a police ver up.