Second Class

In an interview Creasey revealed that he once slept with an anonymous AFL player >>

"It feels like I've been white-anted from within."

>> Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy says he apologised at the time for signing an "inappropriate" homophobic letter as a student activist.

"We view your organisation with distaste and see it as a sign of a very sick society suffering from severe moral decay," read the letter from the La Trobe University Students' Representatives Council, co-signed by Mr Guy, to the Gay and Lesbian Immigration Task Force.

Mr Guy told reporters on Thursday the letter was written in 1994 and he apologised soon after "because I realised it was inappropriate". ... See more

Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy says he quickly realised the "inappropriate" nature of a homophobic letter he signed as a student in 1994.

Words fail me

Conservative commentator Piers Akerman has been criticised for an opinion piece blaming the gay community for child sexual abuse. In the column for The Spectator, Akerman called on the gay

Will the abject stupidity never cease?

>> The Sparsholt Affair is the sixth novel by the Man Booker-winning author, Alan Hollinghurst.

It follows the lives of David Sparsholt and his son Johnny and explores the shifting attitudes towards homosexuality, writing and art over nearly eight decades. ... See more

Alan Hollinghurst talks about his latest novel, The Sparsholt Affair. Also, Gail Honeyman on her hit debut novel Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, a musical response to Murray Bail's classic Eucalyptus and a celebration of umbrellas in fiction. ... See more

"For ten years the industry professionals said 'it'll ruin you' but I'm me. I'm just like you. I have a big heart and I want to be loved and accepted"

In Instinct, the actor plays a spy-author-professor-detective whose sexuality is both irrelevant and groundbreaking

Dear all, I thought some of you might be interested in knowing the topic of my PhD: "Sex, Psychiatry and the Cold War: A Transnational History of Homosexual Aversion Therapy, 1948-1977". I'm in the final 6 months of writing and I have all the material I need for my PhD thesis but, as this will be an ongoing and expanding project over the coming years, I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who might have contacts, personal experiences to share, and/or other useful information relating to aversion therapy (about psychiatrists & therapists, patients, hospital staff, activist responses, etc) in the years 1945-1980*, in any country but especially Australia.**

Comment below or write to me: kate.m.davison@gmail.com (happy to speak on the phone too - ask me for my number).

*I'm primarily interested in the 1960s and 1970s
**One of the key figures in my thesis is Dr Neil McConaghy (Sydney) so I have a fair bit of material on him and CAMP, Gay Lib & Women's Lib interactions with him, collected from ALGA, Sue Wills and personal interviews, but the more, the merrier 🙂 The key geographical contexts in my thesis are Czechoslovakia, East Germany, the UK and Australia. ... See more