MAN ABOUT TOWN: Gay Bhrangers

Contents:

• GAY HISTORY: A QUEER BHRANGER
• ABC BACKSTORYZOë COOMBS-MARR EXPLOR ATRALIA'S QUEER HISTORY QUEERSTRALIA, UNVERG LBIAN NVICT GAM AND A GAY BHRANGER
• THE RELIG LIFE OF PREACHER, BHRANGER AND GAY IN CAPTA MOONLE
• MARC WHALE’S NEW JAM IS BASED ON THE LEGEND OF GAY BHRANGER CAPTA MOONLE

GAY HISTORY: A QUEER BHRANGER

“Well, was really only after the whole event that people raised that he might be gay, ” Fergon explaed.

ABC BACKSTORYZOë COOMBS-MARR EXPLOR ATRALIA'S QUEER HISTORY QUEERSTRALIA, UNVERG LBIAN NVICT GAM AND A GAY BHRANGER

I’d learned about Moonle om Willett and other gay historians, I explaed. We don’t know if he was gay or not.

THE RELIG LIFE OF PREACHER, BHRANGER AND GAY IN CAPTA MOONLE

In his 1958 book The Atralian Legend, which popularised the ncept as a natnal tra, Rsel Ward suggted that, the mascule environment of the ontier, the typil bhman satisfied himself sexually wh prostut and digeno women, then assuaged his “spirual hunger” wh “a sublimated homosexual relatnship wh a mate, or a number of mat”.

Do homosexuals now wre poems to each other?

“Men often slept together the same beds, ” historian Clive Moore explas his study of sexualy on the ontier, “whout raisg the slightt spicn that they were volved what we would ll a homosexual affair, were physilly affectnate, had romantic csh, wrote lovgly to each other and etted when they were apart … For most of the 19th century there was no clear social, medil or legal ncept of homosexualy; homosexual acts were regnised, particularly sodomy, but not a personal disposn or social inty.

MARC WHALE’S NEW JAM IS BASED ON THE LEGEND OF GAY BHRANGER CAPTA MOONLE

“Is there a gay muny Gundagai? A uple of others town who are probably bachelors but most people say they are [gay].