It is now the state's preferred prison for celebry mat, but Cooma jail has a dark past as the world's only gay jail, where nvicted homosexuals were sent to be 'cured'.
Contents:
- WORLD'S ONLY GAY JAIL: HOW MEN WERE SENT TO ONE PRISON TO 'CURE' HOMOSEXUALY
- ALAN TURG & THE MEDIL ABE OF GAY MEN
- COOMA JAIL'S DARK PAST CLUS BEG WORLD'S ONLY 'GAY PRISON', PODST REVEALS
WORLD'S ONLY GAY JAIL: HOW MEN WERE SENT TO ONE PRISON TO 'CURE' HOMOSEXUALY
U_K_ Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U_K_ ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.”. * gay prison uk *
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Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.
”The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U. “As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, " Sunak told Parliament.
ALAN TURG & THE MEDIL ABE OF GAY MEN
U_K_ Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U_K_ ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * gay prison uk *
Veterans' ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said. Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holm, who had served the Brish army and who me out as gay last year, said meant “a huge amount” to hear the ernment apology. “From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, " Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.
U_K_ Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U_K_ ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.
Another level of difficulty aris as victims feel like they mt adhere to the mascule norms of our society and that admtg to beg a victim would emasculate them or possibly e others to see them as homosexual. This problem is proment wh the prison system, where one’s masculy is even more closely sctized than normal society, and beg seen as homosexual uld be a reason to target someone. It is now the state's preferred prison for celebry mat, but Cooma Correctnal Centre has a dark past which the 1950s saw signated as the world's only gay jail, where nvicted homosexuals were sent to be 'cured'.
COOMA JAIL'S DARK PAST CLUS BEG WORLD'S ONLY 'GAY PRISON', PODST REVEALS
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But few morn mat the chilly nf of Cooma's 150-year-old jail - suated the Snowy Mountas southern NSW - would realise that gay offenrs were once rcerated there together so as not to 'ntamate' prisoners who were 'normal'. Homosexual sex was illegal NSW until 1983, and for s before nsired an 'abomable crime' by police who ed handsome officers to tch men 'unnatural' state's Vice Squad round up hundreds of men parks, public toilets, railway statns and cemas and charged them wh acts of cency, or more dire, a year of Cooma openg as a special prison for nvicted men classified as 'homosexual remedials' or 'homosexual recidivists', the NSW Government had lnched a 'scientific evaluatn' of s mat who would be studied to fd 'a cure'. In the 1950s, the lst jail the state Cooma Prison (above) beme the world's only exclively gay penentiary where nvicted homosexuals were sent to be 'cured'Shirtls prisoners sun themselv the yard at Cooma Correctnal Centre the 1970s when the jail was still the place for men nvicted of havg homosexual sex, which was not crimalised until 1983 ONLY GAY JAIL IN THE WORLDThe state's leadg judicial officer, the Attorney General, would proudly clare Cooma as the only exclively homosexual prison the world.