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Justified and Ancient

Editor Gary Dunne

Thirty years ago, hundreds of Sydney gays, lesbians and friends continued a festive street march in defiance of police instructions. Many were thumped, 53 were arrested for being part of the first Sydney Gay Mardi Gras. This retrospective is a sample of local gay male lit from that time.

Editorial: ... provides a unque snapshot of where we've come from and hopefully a far more revealing (and entertaining) view than yet another dry academic history ...

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Contents:

Will Young (William Yang) Nights on the town
'In the morning I show him/last night's polaroid...'
The days at Bondi
'I came running/when he asked me to his birthday party...'

Dave Sargent Nothing more, nothing less
'He maybe able to fuck my head with pre-dawn philosphy...but'
Caught in a drift
'... as he fumbles in a pocket and hands Bennet two mandies. "They'll put you both in a party mood." ...'

Barry Lowe Night of the moggy
'I signed my name, Doris Day tonight, with barely legible scrawl that would never be recognised as mine above Shirley Temple, Betty Grable and Edward Everett Horton ...'

Ian MacNeill Reconnaisance flight
'I used to be a Marlene Dietrich queen ...'

Gary Dunne The Prince Philip blues
'Nick moved in following an evening that by all standards of romance should have been memorable...'
So earnest they're boring
... 'I son't think they serve pavlova here ...'