The relig life of preacher, bhranger and gay in Capta Moonle | Rtact

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GAY HISTORY: A QUEER BHRANGER

Moonle is the epic te story of one of Atralia's most famo crimals, Andrew Gee Stt, likely the first openly gay bhranger. * gay bushranger *

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

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

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

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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. “Is there a gay muny Gundagai?

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

A uple of others town who are probably bachelors but most people say they are [gay]. Gundagai is nservative but I don’t thk ’s really bothered by homosexualy.

“Would the town be open to the tourist potential of Moonle as a gay in?

In that posthumo digny, we n tect, Amanda Kalalfos says, the begng of the morn science of sexualy, which the s to e would tablish “homosexualy” as a distct and all-nsumg pathology. Was Feeney gay?

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

Stt was disarmgly ank about his feelgs for the younger man, pecially an era durg the 19th century when sex was not discsed publicly and homosexualy was harshly supprsed by the state. "Ian Jon se no evince of a homosexual relatnship between Byrne and Sherrt. "You look at the two fellers and they are both very actively heterosexual, " he gay man who's had sex wh a straight man n ttify that beg sexually active wh women don't le out same-sex activy.

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