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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- CHAPTER 1: ‘I THOUGHT MEN LIKE THAT SHOT THEMSELVES’
- CHAPTER 2: …BUT THEY DIDN’T
- CHAPTER 3: AN END TO UNKNOWING
- CHAPTER 4: THE GREATEST MENACE FACING AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER 5: THE PERSONAL BECOMES THE POLITICAL
- CHAPTER 6: THE PEARL IN THE OYSTER
- CHAPTER 7: IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES, NEVER THE BEST OF TIMES
- CHAPTER 8: INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM
- CHAPTER 9: JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE?
- Notes
- Index
