A Crime Pod About Atralia's Gay Only Prison Is Here And We're Hooked

Contents:

• EXPOSG THE SHOCKG PLAN BEHD ATRALIA’S GAY PRISON
• INSI THE GREATT MENACE, THE PODST THAT EXPOSED ATRALIA’S ‘GAY PRISON’ EXPERIMENT
• 10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS
• THE GREATT MENACE: INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT
• COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'
• 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
• COOMA JAIL'S DARK PAST CLUS BEG WORLD'S ONLY 'GAY PRISON', PODST REVEALS

EXPOSG THE SHOCKG PLAN BEHD ATRALIA’S GAY PRISON

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.

INSI THE GREATT MENACE, THE PODST THAT EXPOSED ATRALIA’S ‘GAY PRISON’ EXPERIMENT

“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.

10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS

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. 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.

And here Atralia, the seeds of were planted that gay prison Cooma. 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.

THE GREATT MENACE: INSI THE GAY PRISON EXPERIMENT

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. The thought of beg a gay man prison sred the livg daylights out of me.

Worse, I feared that bee I was a gay man, I’d be an easy target for abe.

What follows are 10 thgs I learned om the perspective of a gay man and ex-mate at a feral prison mp. My hope sharg this is to offer a realistic snapshot to gay men who get sent to prison.

COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'

But even then, don’t expect fair treatment – particularly if someone wh thory don’t like gay people. Not to be stereotypil but as a gay man, I had some refed tast food before gettg sent away.

COOMA 'GAY PRISON' PODSTERS LL FOR ERNMENT APOLOGY FOR ENTRAPMENT, PERSECUTN OF HOMOSEXUAL MEN

The one advantage of beg a gay prisoner is that you are sometim approached for a barter. First, the relatnships are almost always kept on the DL, even if you are openly gay.

Regardls if you are gay or straight, dog time prison is extremely hard. Podst Seri2022Journalist Patrick Abboud hears whispers that there was once a world's only 'gay prison'.

Read allJournalist Patrick Abboud hears whispers that there was once a world's only 'gay prison'. Journalist Patrick Abboud hears whispers that there was once a world's only 'gay prison'. Homosexualy is a choice, jt look at the prisons, Republin nrosurgeon Ben Carson said on CNN.

‘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”

"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.

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.

A TE CRIME POD ABOUT ATRALIA’S ‘GAY ONLY’ PRISON IS HERE AND WE’RE ALREADY FKN HOOKED

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.

Rpected scientists nsir settled that homosexualy is not a matter of choice. CNN, "Ben Carson: Prisons prove beg gay is a choice, " March 4, 2015. PoliFact, "Tim Pawlenty says scientists are " dispute" over whether beg gay is a choice, " July 13, 2011.

COOMA JAIL'S DARK PAST CLUS BEG WORLD'S ONLY 'GAY PRISON', PODST REVEALS

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. Sexual Rearch and Social Policy, "Demographic, Psychologil, and Social Characteristics of Self-Intified Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults a US Probabily Sample, " September 2010. 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.