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  • Flappers and felons: Rethinking the criminal law and Homosex in interwar Australia, 1920-1939

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    Author(s)
    Smaal, Yorick
    Finnane, Mark
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Smaal, Yorick J.
    Finnane, Mark J.
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    In late 1930, Sydney’s scurrilous Arrow newspaper published an extraordinary exposé on the city’s sexual underworld. At an imposing, old-fashioned and roomy house in the western suburbs, a group of sixty ‘male flappers’ had gathered for one of the city’s premier queer soirées: crowning the ‘Queen of the “Kamp Kult”’. An undercover journalist had infiltrated this reportedly annual event by ‘devious means’ and two days before Christmas his eyewitness account on ‘Organised Male Depravity’ hit the front page.1 And organized it was. The article described in astonishing detail the gendered rituals of contemporary Australian ...
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    In late 1930, Sydney’s scurrilous Arrow newspaper published an extraordinary exposé on the city’s sexual underworld. At an imposing, old-fashioned and roomy house in the western suburbs, a group of sixty ‘male flappers’ had gathered for one of the city’s premier queer soirées: crowning the ‘Queen of the “Kamp Kult”’. An undercover journalist had infiltrated this reportedly annual event by ‘devious means’ and two days before Christmas his eyewitness account on ‘Organised Male Depravity’ hit the front page.1 And organized it was. The article described in astonishing detail the gendered rituals of contemporary Australian subcultures and the ways that men made meaning of their same-sex lives and lifestyles. Steeped in pageantry and spectacle, this queer coronation brought together ‘royalty’ and spectators from across the nation as vows were taken and hymns sung. An officiating ‘Bishop’ presided over the celebrations, taking his cues from a sacred book embossed with a resplendent letter ‘K’.
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    Book Title
    From sodomy laws to same-sex marriage: International perspectives since 1789
    Publisher URI
    https://novapublishers.com/
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    ARC
    Grant identifier(s)
    DP0771492
    Copyright Statement
    Self-archiving is not yet supported by this publisher. Please refer to the publisher or contact the author(s) for more information.
    Subject
    Sexualities
    Australian history
    Law, gender and sexuality (incl. feminist legal scholarship)
    Historical studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/392231
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