Arts and Culture: Literature

Sydney’s gay movement did not have access to a body of literature. Lynn Thomas and Diane Minnis found very little available when they were coming out, but things changed by the late 70s.

Along with commercial and community newspapers, detailed journals appeared. Gay Information was a series of publications which in the 70s and 80s that discussed ideas and issues within the gay movement. Mark Matheson looks back at these publications. Also, in this period, independent authors like Ian MacNeill based their novels on the gay experience.