Gay Sydney: A History

In his long-awaited book, Gay Sydney: A history, Garry Wotherspoon updates his 1991 classic, City of the Plain, which was written in the midst of the AIDS crisis. Here Wotherspoon traces the dramatic shifts that have occurred since the early '90s - majority support for marriage equality, anti-discrimination legislation, the introduction of powerful anti-retroviral drugs. And he ponders the parallel evaporation of a distinctly gay sensibility with the disappearance of once-packed gay bars that are now cafes and gyms. This revealing book also tells the story of gay Sydney across a century, uncovering its secret, hidden gay life, the never-ending debates about sex in society, and the role of social movements in the '60s and '70s in effecting social change. Wotherspoon gets personal too, writing about his own experiences and the changes he has observed in Sydney's gay life, having lived through them as a long-time resident of Oxford Street at the very heart of gay Sydney.

• | Author: Garry Wotherspoon
• | Publisher: NewSouth
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1742234836
• | ISBN-13: 9781742234830