- 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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