Gay Sydney

<p>Garry Wotherspoon's <em>Gay Sydney: A History</em> is an updated version of his 1991 classic <em>City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture</em> written in the midst of the AIDS crisis. In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then including majority support for marriage equality and anti-discrimination legislation. He also ponders the parallel evaporation of a distinctly gay sensibility and the disappearance of once-packed gay bars that have now become cafes and gyms.</p><p>This book also tells the story of gay Sydney across a century looking at secret underground gay life the never-ending debates about sex in society and the role of social movements in the '60 and '70s in effecting social change. </p>