jeansGuyOZ
Smartarse from Down Under
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I wish we had the option to include our location on our avatars. It would make replying to posts in discussions such as this one much easier if I knew the background of the poster.
@stonecold: poofterbashing by cops certainly occurred in Australia not so long ago, but it's not exactly news to anybody here, certainly not to gay men. There is a famous case from the 1960s. Police invaded a night-time gay beat in Adelaide and playfully threw one of the men into the river. Unfortunately the man, who happened to be a respected academic, could not swim and drowned.
That may not have been the first such case, but it was the first one that came to the attention of the general public, and it probably laid the seeds for changes in the law and changes in public attitudes. It was not long after that that South Australians elected Don Dunstan as state premier - a man who led the way in decriminalising homosexuality and in changing community attitudes to people who were "different". Famously, on one occasion he wore pink shorts in parliament.
Police poofter-bashing happened here, but I think you are kidding yourself if you think it did/does not happen elsewhere.
@stonecold: poofterbashing by cops certainly occurred in Australia not so long ago, but it's not exactly news to anybody here, certainly not to gay men. There is a famous case from the 1960s. Police invaded a night-time gay beat in Adelaide and playfully threw one of the men into the river. Unfortunately the man, who happened to be a respected academic, could not swim and drowned.
That may not have been the first such case, but it was the first one that came to the attention of the general public, and it probably laid the seeds for changes in the law and changes in public attitudes. It was not long after that that South Australians elected Don Dunstan as state premier - a man who led the way in decriminalising homosexuality and in changing community attitudes to people who were "different". Famously, on one occasion he wore pink shorts in parliament.
Police poofter-bashing happened here, but I think you are kidding yourself if you think it did/does not happen elsewhere.