The first ntemporary book of s kd: poems by gay and lbian poets wrg now the eedoms and dangers of the 21st century. Out of the Boxfeatur new poems by David Malouf and Dorothy Porter and troduc new poets Maria Zajkowski and Stt-Patrick Mchell – not to mentn the ee rangg poets between.
Contents:
- REVIEW: OUT OF THE BOX: CONTEMPORARY ATRALIAN GAY AND LBIAN POETS
- LOVE CONTEMPORARY AMERIN GAY MALE POETRY THE WORKS OF RICHARD SIKEN, EDUARDO C CORRAL AND JERICHO BROWN
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
REVIEW: OUT OF THE BOX: CONTEMPORARY ATRALIAN GAY AND LBIAN POETS
The anizatn’s choice of name was a nsc play on the term ed by many Atralian gays of the time to refer to themselv, “mp, ” a word that would rema age until the adoptn of the word “gay” om the Uned Stat gay liberatn movement to Atralian English 1972. The rt of the saw the appearance of three short-lived tl jog Camp Ink, the Sydney Gay Liberatn Newsletter (1972-1973) which beme Gay Lib News (1973-1974), and Red and Lavenr: Newsletter of the Socialist Lbians and Male Homosexuals, published om 1976 until 1978.
In 1982, s tle changed to simply The Star (1982-1985), followed by the Star Observer (1985-1986), Sydney’s Star Observer (1986-1987), Sydney Star Observer (1987-2014) and the ntemporary Star Observer, at The 1980s saw the addn to the Atralian gay prs scene of a journal om the Sydney Gay Wrers Collective, Inversns, published 1980 and 1981, and the first issue of an annual serial, Atralia and Beyond: a gay and lbian gui to Atralia & New Zealand, which would rema prt until 1991. In 1992, the Atralian Gay and Lbian Law Journal began publitn, and would rema existence to the twenty-first century, changg s tle to the Atralasian Gay and Lbian Law Journal after 1993 and to the Gay and Lbian Law Journal startg 2001.
While the motn on this pot did not rry, tert remaed as to “whether the law should attach crimal nsequenc to all physil sexual acts between male homosexuals and whether Christians were unr a duty to support the matenance of existg laws” (Report 1971: 1.
LOVE CONTEMPORARY AMERIN GAY MALE POETRY THE WORKS OF RICHARD SIKEN, EDUARDO C CORRAL AND JERICHO BROWN
While the Commtee favored retag the laws limg offensive behavrs, remend that “the provisns of the Victoria Crime Act 1958, which renr crimal those homosexual acts mted private between nsentg mal of 18 years or olr, should be repealed. The full text of that speech was reprted his 1979 llectn of wrgs Comg Out the Seventi unr the tle “Fom on Gay Liberatn “and offers a unique wdow to how the ias and tes of the then-new gay liberatn movement were beg exprsed wh an Atralian ntext.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
Its preface c the work of Aled Ksey and quot the Wolfenn Report om the UK as a amework for the then-recent visibily of homosexualy as a social issue, then exprs ncern that chang the social environment towards homosexuals may tempt many people to choose homosexual rather than heterosexual (and Scripturally sanctned) norms of behavr. The “Remendatns” sectn of the Report lls upon what terms “practicg homosexuals” to cease their activi and strs the threat that the homosexual movement pos to Wtern society before llg for reforms the area of the homosexualy laws of Atralia (towards a greater uniformy) and police practic and the availabily of psychologil rehabilatn.