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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. 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 Sydney’s gay community.
Author: Gary Wotherspoon
Paperback Published 1 March 2016 386 pages
'The original and the best.' - DAVID MARR