- Title
- Homosexuality on the goldfields
- Creator
- Pola, Brian; Waldron, David; Waldron, Gabriel
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/101216
- Identifier
- vital:10665
- Identifier
- http://library.federation.edu.au/record=b2625789
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-1-925333-51-0
- Abstract
- There has been significant new literature on the experience of women and lesbians on the Goldfields but very little has been published on the experience of homosexual men. However, despite being a capital offence until 1864 and a criminal act until the 1980s, records from the mid-ninteenth-century indicate there was a well-established, perhaps even flourishing, culture of male homosexuality on Victoria's Goldfields. This culture had its origins in the long established and distinct underground 'gay' subculture of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century of Great Britain, 'Molly houses'. These illegal bars and taverns, essentially served a function as the gay bars of their day.
- Publisher
- Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd
- Relation
- Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 87-101
- Rights
- Copyright © in this collection: David Waldron, 2016. The copyright in each essay belongs to the essayist.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Homosexuality; Goldfields; Victoria; Australia; History; Folklore
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