Tag: homosexuality
Sunday essay: hidden in plain sight — Australian queer men and women before gay liberation
A mug shot of Neville McQuade (aged 18) and Lewis Stanley Keith (aged 19), taken at North Sydney Police Station in June 1942. Sydney...
Sunday essay: my brush with Susan Sontag and other tales from the gay ‘golden age’
Dennis Altman in Santa Cruz California in 1984, Author provided
The years between the gay liberation movement at the beginning of the 1970s and...
Sunday essay: the myth of the ancient Greek ‘gay utopia’
The Fall of the Titans,
Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, circa 1590. Wikimedia
In recent years, we have seen significant advances won for LGBT rights through...
Sunday essay: Mapplethorpe and me
Exhibition installation view of Robert Mapplethorpe:
the perfect medium at the Art Gallery of New South Wales,
27 Oct 2017 – 18 Feb 2018. All...