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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 *
While the film was not overtly gay -- censorship would have prevented that at the time -- the lbian unrton are hard to 's Prison MassacreThis 1983 horror film follows Emanuelle, a reporter sent to prison on tmped-up charg. 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. 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.
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 *
“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
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'. * gay prison uk *
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.
It would ntue as such to the 1970s, when a royal missn to prisons heard the Cooma jail sewg room - where footballer Jarryd Hayne was recently employed for $24 a week makg prison greens - was a place of rampant sex for chapla Reverend Brian Burton later wrote a homoerotic novel about the gogs on the cupboards at the end of this tailorg was still happeng at Cooma 1976, crimal Raymond John Moore told the 1977 Royal Commissn Prisons, plag that '30 or 40 worked the tailor shop and jt about all of them were homosexuals.
The prison sewg room the 1970s was known for rampant sex between gay male mat and trysts the cupboards down the back wh prison guards turng a bld eye The Cooma sewg room today, where high profile mat like footballer Jarryd Hayne earnt $24-a-week when imprisoned on a rape charge which has been over turned on appeal'They rried on their love affairs durg workg hours often full view of everyone the shop' said prisoners bought stockgs and female unrwear on the weekly buy-ups and prisoners 'performed homosexual acts que openly ont of prisoners and prison officers' but he never saw a prison officer attempt to stop Cooma me to have the only gay prison on the pla is explored the the ABC rad eight-part podst 'The Greatt Menace' by award-wng documentary maker Patrick Abboud. Above, the yard of the 150-year-old prison mat today still endure nfement si the state's lst prison which is the largt town the Snowy Mountas NSW Police Commissner Col Delaney was a shockg anti-homosexual who whipped up muny fear wh the aid of the rabid tabloid Tth and set his Vice Squad after gay men'SHOCKING MALE VICE' It seems to have been the rult of the perfect storm of a rabidly anti-homosexual police chief, a moralistic mister, a willg psychiatrist, a shockg tabloid newspaper and the parative backwater that was 1950s police chief was Col Delaney, a highly rated policeman wh an obssn agast homosexualy. A year to his appotment as NSW Commissner, Delaney clared at a lunch 1953 that his biggt problems were the burgeong road toll and the 'growg ncer of perversn' He proclaimed that homosexualy was the greatt menace facg Atralia Delaney would later proclaim that 'homosexualy is the greatt menace facg Atralia', givg Abboud the tle of his podst, and that this danger to society had to be stamped his missn to do so was a climate of hysteria, whipped up by Tth 1954, the racy tabloid ran a story - and wasn't an opn piece, headled 'Shockg male vice mt be wiped out Sydney'.