Australian Books On Gay Topics / Themes
The following is a list of books on gay themes and topics which have either been written by Australian authors or which have been set in Australia. It is by no means complete and we will add to it over time. If you would like to contribute books to the list please email us. Most of these books should be available though any major bookshop. The bookshop with the most extensive gay and lesbian holdings in Newcastle is the Second Life Bookshop, Hunter Street, Newcastle (opposite Spotlight). MacLeans Booksellers in Beaumont Street, Hamilton also has a small range of gay books.
Hope you enjoy.
List compiled by Kevin Markwell
Non Fiction
Coming Out Books
Inside Out by Erin Shade, Bookman Press, 1999
My Child is Gay by Bryce McDougall (ed), Allen and Unwin, 1998
Biographies
A Mother's Disgrace by Robert Dessaix, Flamingo, 1994
Black Hours by Wayne King, Angus and Robertson, 1996
Desire Lines by Peter and Richard Wherrett, Sceptre, 1997
Finding Out, Ian Roberts by Paul Freeman, Random House, 1997
Holding the Man by Timothy Cosgrove, Penguin, 1995
I Am What I am by John Marsden, Penguin/Viking, 2004
Not Quite Straight, A Memoir by Jeffrey Smart, Heinemann, 1996
Positive by David Menadue, Allen and Unwin, 2003
Rose Boys by Peter Rose, Allen and Unwin, 2002
Screw Loose by Peter Blazey, Picador, 1997
Reference
Australian Lesbian and Gay Writing: An Anthology by Robert Dessaix (ed), Oxford University Press, 1994
Bibliography of Homosexuality: A Research Guide to the University of Sydney Library by Gary Simes, Australian Centre for Lesbian and Gay Research, 1998
The Penguin Book of Australian Gay Writing by Graeme Aitkin (ed), Penguin
History
A Sydney Gaze: The Making of Gay Liberation, Schiltron Press, 1999
Camping by a Billabong by Robert French, Black Wattle Press, 1993
City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-Culture, Hale and Ironmonger, 1991
From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual by Robert Reynolds, Melbourne University Press, 2002
Living Out Loud: A History of Gay and Lesbian Activism in Australia by Graham Willett, Allen and Unwin, 2000
Out in the Valley, Hunter Gay and Lesbian Histories by Jim Wafer, Erica Southgate and Lyndall Coan (eds), Newcastle Historical Monograph No 15, 2000
Street Scene, A History of Oxford Street by Clive Farro with Gary Wotherspoon, Melbourne University Press, 2000
Social/Cultural Studies
AIDS and the New Puritinism by Dennis Altman, Pluto Press, 1981
Being Different by Gary Wotherspoon, (ed), Hale and Ironmonger, 1986
Forms of Denial by Jan Reinier
Friends of Dorothy by William Yang, McMillan, 1997
Gay Perspectives: More Essays in Australian Gay Culture, by Robert Aldrich (ed), Australian Centre for Gay and Lesbian Research, 1993
Gay by Steve Dow, Common Ground Press, 2001
Getting It: Gay Men's Sexual Stories by Robert Reynolds and Gerard Sullivan (eds), Harrington Park Press, 2003
Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation by Dennis Altman, Angus and Robertson, 1971
Mardi Gras: True Stories by Richard Wherrett (ed), Viking, 1999
One of the Boys: Masculinity, Homophobia and Modern Manhood by David Plummer, Harrington Park Press, 1999
Practicing Desire: Homosexual Sex in the Era of AIDS by Gary Dowset, Stanford University Press, 1996
Queer Theory by Annamarie Jagose, Melbourne University Press, 1996
Fiction
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous by Graeme Aitkin, Vintage 1995
An East Wind Blowing by Mel Keegan, 1999
Aquamarine by Mel Keegan, 2000
Barbwire Engagements by P.V. Goode
Butterfly Boy by Richard Cawley, Millivres Prowler, 2000
Confessing a Murder by Nick Drayson, Vintage, 2003
Corfu by Robert Dessaix, Picador, 2001
Dream Stuff by David Malouf, Chatto and Winduss, 2000
Fairyland by Sumner Locke Elliott, Pan, 1990
Fantastic Street by David Kelly, Picador, 2003
Fly By Night by Mel Harris
French Letters by Bruno Brouchet, Hodder, 2004
Gay Resort Murder Shock by Phil Scott, Penguin, 1998
Glove Puppet by Neil Drinnan, Penguin, 1998
It's About Your Friend by Phil Scott, Penguin, 2002
Johnny Come Home by Dean Durber, Marginal Eyes Press, 2002
Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas, Vintage, 1995
One Dead Diva by Phil Scott, Alyson Books, 1996
Peter by Kate Walker, Omnibus, 1991
Pussy's Bow by Neal Drinnan, Penguin, 1999
Quill by Neal Drinnan, Penguin, 2000
Repurcussions by Michael D. Campbell
Rudeboy Train by David Lennon, Bantam Books, 2003
Shadows on the Dance Floor by Gary Dunne, Black Wattle Press, 1992
Sushi Central, by Alasdair Duncan, University of Qld Press, 2003
Take Me to Paris, Johnny by John Foster, Black Inc (trading as Schwartz Publishing), 2003
The Architect by John Scott, Penguin, 2000
The Jesus Man by Christos Tsiolkas, Vintage Books, 1999
Trashtown by Robert Tait, Black Wattle Press, 1997
Vanity Fierce by Graeme Aitkin, Vintage, 1998
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