| Description |
xi, 362 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 ̀I Thought Men Like That Shot Themselves' -- Sexuality in a parochial provincial city -- ch. 2 ... But They Didn't -- ̀Camp' life in Sydney before World War II -- ch. 3 An End To Unknowing -- The impact of war and the Kinsey Report -- ch. 4 The Greatest Menace Facing Australia -- Sydney's homosexual worlds and the Cold War -- ch. 5 The Personal Becomes The Political -- Social change, the camp world and the advent of gay liberation -- ch. 6 The Pearl In The Oyster -- The opening up of Sydney's gay world -- ch. 7 It Was The Worst Of Times, Never The Best Of Times -- HIV/AIDS and Sydney's responses -- ch. 8 Into The New Millennium -- And a brighter future loomed -- ch. 9 Just Like Everybody Else? -- Sydney's gay world today |
| Summary |
Garry Wotherspoon's Gay Sydney: A history is an updated version of his 1991 classic, City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture, written in the midst of the AIDS crisis. In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then, including majority support for marriage equality and anti-discrimination legislation. He also ponders the parallel evaporation of a distinctly gay sensibility and the disappearance of once-packed gay bars that have now become cafes and gyms. This book also tells the story of gay Sydney across a century, looking at secret, underground gay life, the never-ending debates about sex in society and the role of social movements in the '60 and '70s in effecting social change |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-350) and index |
| Audience |
Adult |
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Adult |
| Subject |
Gay men -- Legal status, laws, etc -- New South Wales
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Gay men -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
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Gay men -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Social conditions
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Gay men -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Social life and customs
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Gay men -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Australia -- New South Wales
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Gay men -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions
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Gay men -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customs
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Gay men -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History
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Gay men -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
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Gay men -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Social conditions
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Gay men -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Social life and customs
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Gay men -- Legal status, laws, etc -- New South Wales
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Gay men.
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Gay men -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Gay men -- Social conditions.
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Gay men -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs.
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| SUBJECT |
Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
New South Wales.
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New South Wales -- Sydney.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| ISBN |
9781742234830 (paperback) |
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