Well, 's Gay (or LGBT) Pri month the USA, and sce I don't thk we have a specific natnal month here, I thought I'd give a ltle shout out to some of our queer wrers. Now, I'm not sure about labellg, but Readgs bookshop posted three years ago on "queer reads", while Wikipedia has…
Contents:
- ATRALIAN GAY WRERS
- ‘EVERYONE IS GOG TO BE GAY AND TERRIBLE’: THE FIRST ATRALIAN NOVEL NOMATED FOR A HUGO
- BOOK REVIEW: ON LIFE AS A YOUNG, GAY ATRALIAN
- THE PENGU BOOK OF GAY ATRALIAN WRG
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
ATRALIAN GAY WRERS
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‘EVERYONE IS GOG TO BE GAY AND TERRIBLE’: THE FIRST ATRALIAN NOVEL NOMATED FOR A HUGO
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Meticuloly rearched and ttly plotted, books such as The Last of the We (1956) and The Persian Boy (1972) naturalistilly pict gay love agast a vivid, betifully renred backdrop of war and polil BaldwJam BaldwUPI/Bettmann ArchiveBaldw’s semal novel Gvanni’s Room (1956), about a tragic love affair between a nfed Amerin man and his Italian boyiend Paris, unflchgly exam the societal prejudic that kept (and ntue to keep) many people om acknowledgg their sexual AokiAoki is an Amerin wrer of Japane scent who is bt known for her llectns, cludg Seasonal Veloci (2012) and Why Dt Shall Never Settle upon This Soul (2015), and her novels, cludg He Mele a Hilo (2014) and Light om Unmon Stars (2021).
BOOK REVIEW: ON LIFE AS A YOUNG, GAY ATRALIAN
Rightwg activist Bernard Gaynor applied to the board earlier this year to review the classifitn of Genr Queer by non-bary wrer Maia Kobabe, a graphic novel-style memoir about genr ’s ph follows the footsteps of nservative activists the US, who have shown up drov to school meetgs and mand the book removed om the US, Genr Queer is the most challenged book librari. However, Gaynor and his supporters appealed agast the cisn and the board sought submissns on the classifitn om the an opn released on Thursday, the review board said Genr Queer warranted to keep this classifitn bee “the ntent of the publitn is jtified ntext, is appropriate for s tend dience of people who are terted the thor or terted the subjects of genr inty and asexualy, and has a posive tone and character as well as many layers of posive msagg” review board found the pictns of sex and nudy the book were jtified the ntext of a nonfictn memoir scribg the thor’s lived board noted that the M ratg would advise the public that the book may offend some sectns of the adult muny and may not be suable for younger the review, the board was flood wh more than 500 submissns both for and agast the book, forcg to lay makg a cisn for several more weeks until Thursday.
”Gaynor said on Friday he was seekg legal advice on the week Big W removed om shelv the sale of Wele To Sex, a sex tn and nsent book aimed at adolcents, after a social media mpaign agast the book led to staff beg abed attempted boytt of the book has rulted a boom sal and has subsequently sold out on former US print Barack Obama this week labelled ph to ban books om librari by the Amerin right as “profoundly misguid”. 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.
THE PENGU BOOK OF GAY ATRALIAN WRG
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.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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. 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.