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In 1967, The Bulletin published an 1875 woodcut as evidence that same-sex dancers in colonial Australia were, by definition, heterosexual. Norman Lindsay, Australia’s chief heterosexual, wrote a feature article accompanying the illustration. “How else could they work off the exhilaration of liquor, lacking women to dance with?” Well, Norman, how then did they work off ...

A Celebration of Life for Lance Leopard and his mum Carmel will be held in Brisbane on August 24. Lance, an iconic queer identity in Brisbane and Sydney, and his mum Carmel, a community activist and victims of crime advocate, died in a house fire on June 16. Will we see the likes of Lance ...

Berlin Olympics Gold Medal winner Helen Stephens never lost a race in her entire sporting career. Born on February 3 1918, the ‘Fulton Flash’ came out as a lesbian in the early 1970s and enjoyed a nearly 40-year relationship with Mabel O. Robbe. Helen’s nickname came from her hometown of Fulton, Missouri. Her mother said ...

Katy Perry released Woman’s World on Friday, the first track from 143, her first album since Smile in 2020. Scroll down for the video of Woman’s World. Critics hated it with The Guardian gifting it one star. “What regressive, warmed-over hell is this?” In the first half of the video, Katy and her dancers mug ...

The early seventies were an exciting time in Australia. International travel and television made Down Under not so far away. And the times, they were at last a-changin'. A new progressive government, color TV and dicks in magazines.

Detractors accused King Henry IV of Castile of homosexuality, impotency and of arranging his own cuckolding. When the king proved indisposed to being deposed, they arranged an elaborate public ceremony without him. They stripped an effigy of royal accoutrements and shouted “Eat dirt, f_cker’ at the wooden statue. It achieved nothing. Henry IV remained king. ...

On April 30, 1919, the Queensland Times reported on an event organised by Harry Sheppard as a fundraiser for the Musical Union in Rosewood, Queensland. A renowned small-town country draper, Harry only stayed in Rosewood for a few years, but like everywhere he went, he left his mark on the local community. Harry McLean Sheppard ...

There’s a story I’ve told over and over of Bill Rutkin. I’ll keep telling it as long as I have breath in my body because it sums up what’s so special about him. The early eighties was a great time to be a member of the gay communities. Despite the prejudice and discrimination in places ...

On August 31, 1842, William Williams and Solomon John slipped away from a Sydney bar to a nearby paddock for a spot of consensual buggery. They risked the death sentence if caught. Yet, court records indicate they and numerous other colonial Australian men took an astonishingly carefree attitude to criminal man-on-man action. All images: NSW ...

The torrid north of Queensland is the natural home of every squalid scamp driven out of the more settled districts of this and neighbouring States. It is a common saying down south that if you want to find anybody who has mysteriously disappeared, search North Queensland.