Gay Sydney: A History

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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. 'The original and the best.' DAVID MARR

Garry Wotherspoon is a historian, former Sydney University, Australia, academic and a former NSW History Fellow. His books include Being Different: Nine gay men remember. He co-authored, with Clive Faro, Street Seen: A history of Oxford Street.

'The original and the best.' DAVID MARR