- Title
- "He had to be a poofter or something": violence, male honour and heterosexual panic
- Creator
- Tomsen, Stephen
- Relation
- Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS Vol. 3, Issue 2, p. 44-57
- Relation
- http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 1998
- Description
- On the thirtieth of June in 1993, Kevin Marsh, a sixty-year-old invalid pensioner who lived alone in public housing in the Wollongong district of New South Wales, was sitting on the balcony of his modest home. T, a local seventeen year old who had been drinking with a friend, walked past and spoke to him. Marsh gave him a smoke and invited him inside to share some drinks. The pair may have been drinking for as little as twenty minutes, when an alleged sexual pass by Marsh resulted in a physical confrontation and his violent death.
- Subject
- murder; violence; homosexual men; lesbians; male honour; male sexuality; heterosexual panic
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1048638
- Identifier
- uon:14934
- Identifier
- ISSN:1325-1848
- Language
- eng
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