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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

asexual, s, ssie, stralia, stralian, bisexual, fictn, gay, gay-and-lbian, genr-qutng, glbt, glbtq, glbtqi, homosexualy, tersex, lbian, lgbt, lgbt-ya, lgbtq, lgbtqi, lgbtqia, loveozya, oz, ozya, queer, same-sex-attracted, trans, transgenr, young-adult. 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). 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”.

‘EVERYONE IS GOG TO BE GAY AND TERRIBLE’: THE FIRST ATRALIAN NOVEL NOMATED FOR A HUGO

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. 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.

BOOK REVIEW: ON LIFE AS A YOUNG, GAY ATRALIAN

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. The basic charge of the Commissn was to exame sectns 184 and 181 of the Crimal Co and to hold heargs and receive wrten and verbal ttimony on attus towards homosexuals Wtern Atralia, the qutn of the victimizatn of homosexuals (rangg om asslt to blackmail), solicatn, and the stat of medil and mental health facili for those who wished to change their sexual orientatn.

” The full texts of the then-current policy on homosexuals the armed forc of Atralia (and a cril mentary on , a “Proposed Amendment to All Atralian Crim Acts to Regulate Crimal Sexual Conduct, ” and two letters to Michael Clohy, secretary of CAMP- New South Wal om the Office of the Prime Mister and the Department of Foreign Affairs addrsg the problems wh the proposal that Atralia make a motn the Uned Natns that the term “sexual orientatn” be add to the Internatnal Covenant on Civil and Polil Rights (which was servg as the basis for a then-drafted human rights bill for Atralia) plete the document.

The end wh the appearance 1979 of two documents created by the Gay Task Force Sydney which reflect part the list of remend social reforms listed by CAMP four years earlier, Submissn on the proposed New South Wal child and muny welfare legislatn and the Gay Task Force submissn to Commtee to Exame Teacher Edutn N. 1984 was marked by nveng of the tenth annual Natnal Conference of Lbians & Homosexual Men Brisbane, whose theme was “Common Ground, ” and the appearance of two publitns illtratg the diversy of opn on homosexualy Atralia as the AIDS panmic began to unfold. The first is an assembly part of prevly published articl datg between 1980 and 1984 entled Blatant and Proud: Homosexuals on the Offensive, a reference to a claratn ma at the 1979 Natnal Conference of Lbians & Homosexual Men Melbourne that the summer of 1980 the participants would be “blatant –everywhere.

THE PENGU BOOK OF GAY ATRALIAN WRG

In Flaws In the Social Fabric: Homosexuals and Society Sydney, Denise Thompson prents both two sectns om the 1982 report Discrimatn and Homosexualy (of which she was the prcipal thor) on medil mols of homosexualy and Christian moral posns on the subject.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Perhaps her most signifint ntributn to Atralian LGBT wrg li the book’s first sectn, “The Gay Movement” which offers “a brief overview of some of the ma events the history of the gay movement Sydney” ( Thompson 1985: 7) focg on the polil work begun wh the formatn of CAMP July, 1970. “That the first homosexual anizatn Atralia to ‘e out’ publicly, should have lled self ‘mp’ rather than ‘gay’ (the term which was already mon e among those who were fluenced by events the Uned Stat) was …a liberate stance on the part of CAMP Ink’s iators.