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		Author - Gary Dunne Gary Dunne was born in the Adelaide Hills in 1954. After a brief stint at Adelaide Uni in the early 70s, he spent the rest of the Whitlam era travelling the backblocks of Australia with Ashton's Circus. Settling in Sydney in late 1975, he became a freelance contributor to Forum and Campaign magazines, beginning a 30 year ongoing underpaid involvement with the gay press. His fiction has been published in Australian literary mags and anthologies, as well as in local and international gay publications. Contact Gary via gay-ebooks

		The Queen and I The Queen and I is a delicate expose of opportunity and desire uncovering of the nuances of gay life, both home-grown and imported, in contemporary Thailand. An educating English queen, an A-list lesbian nightclubber, a Bangkok barboy (#47) and a frenzied Diana Ross impersonator are just some of the characters in this tale of Australian gay innocence abroad. Gary Dunne writes with an easy style and honesty, relating good behaviour and bad, in a startlingly memorable cluster of related stories. An exclusive gay-ebooks publication. free download [pdf file <1.6mB]
		As If Overnight ISBN 1 875 243 01 1 BlackWattle Press, August 1990 32 pages A5; reissued as a pdf by www.gay-ebooks, 2006 "Until last year, we were like Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. Now we are blatantly mortal. It's as if we've changed overnight and will never be that young again." Full book available for download as pdf free download [pdf file <0.5mB]
		Shadows on the Dance Floor ISBN 1 875 243 11 9 BlackWattle Press, December 1992, 140x210mm, 94 pages "Where there's hair, there's hope," states Mr. Pointy Head, inner-city survivor, shoplifter and owner of three milk crates of second hand men's underpants. Back in 1985 he and his ex-boyfriend Grace went for HIV blood tests together. It's now 1991 and, for the first time their different results really begin to matter." Sample chapter A Day in the Country available for download free download [pdf file <1mB]

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		Edge City on two different plans A collection of lesbian and gay writing from Australia Sydney Gay Writers Collective, September 1983 Editors Margaret Bradstock, Gary Dunne, Dave Sargent, Louise Wakeling 223 pages, 140 x 210mm, ISBN 0 949876 01 0 "Edge City is important not only for the work it contains but equally as the foundation for what is the long overdue emergence of a literary voice of lesbians and gay men in Australia." Denis Altman from the Foreword.
		Travelling on Love in a Time of Uncertainty Contemporary Australian Gay Fiction, BlackWattle Press, September 1991, editor Gary Dunne, 109 pages, 140 x 210mm ISBN 1 875243 06 2 Blurb: A gathering of the best recent Australian fiction written from gay male perspectives. A striking collection of Australian short stories that capture what it is to be gay and living in the 90's. Eighteen pieces, across broad scenarios, that cover a lot of territory - an all night dance party, a down market back room; a family funeral; a coming of age in outer suburbia; a Mardi Gras Veteran; a Whitlamesque drag queen; a deep sub-mariner; and an HIV survivor with attitude.
		Fruit A New Anthology of Contemporary Australian Gay Writing BlackWattle Press, November 1994, editor Gary Dunne, 147 pages, 140 x 210mm, ISBN 1 875243 15 1 Blurb: The pick of the crop. This unique collection of gay writing is by the best of Australia's gay authors; accessible and entertaining stories that illustrate the expanding diversity of our community. A failed intimacy with a touring porn stud. The plottings of a famous novelist. A TV chat show guest is exposed. Overnight lovers in a bush caravan park. A leathery buzzard nighclubs the Los Angeles curfew. A curious schoolboy grows up in Athens. And adventures from Stockholm, Tokyo, Wangaratta and the Gulf of Siam. Exciting new writing that is both upfront and confronting; twenty potent examples of today's Australian gay literature, each one a great read.
		If Blood Should Stain The Lino ISBN 094987602X, inVersions, 1983, 96pages, 140 x 210mm A collection of interconnected short stories. 'The humour is black, but optimistic. The style is tastefully minimal. A new writer to watch out for.'