Snippets and shadows of stories: thoughts on sources and methods when writing an Australian history of sexuality

Title: Snippets and shadows of stories: thoughts on sources and methods when writing an Australian history of sexuality
Creator: Featherstone, Lisa S.
Relation: Intimacy, Violence and Activisim: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives on Australasian History and Society p. 74-89
Relation: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives VII 7
Relation: http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/iva-9781922235084.html
Publisher: Monash University Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: In 1943 the 25-year-old hotel porter Sydney Thomas Smith walked the streets of Brisbane dressed as a woman. One fateful evening he agreed to have sex with two American sailors, supposedly for a fee of ten pounds. According to the sailors' story, once the lights were out, the men found to their surprise that 'she' was in fact a 'he', and a brawl erupted. Smith was arrested and tried for solicitation, and he was sentenced to six months imprisonment. On sentencing, Smith was called a 'beast' by the magistrate, a statement which was gleefully recorded in the Army News.
Subject: gay and lesbian; Australia; queer studies; drag
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1342129
Identifier: uon:28897
Identifier: ISBN:9781922235084
Language: eng

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