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Australian LGBTIQA+ arts, writing & ideas
Clouds of Magellan Press | Melbourne
© 2019. Copyright on the contents of Bent Street remains with individual contributors.
Bent Street is published by Clouds of Magellan Press, Melbourne,
www.cloudsofmagellanpress.net.
Bent Street welcomes contributions at any time. Visit bentstreet.net for submission details.
ISBN: (paperback) 978-0-6484604-8-0
ISBN: (ebook) 978-06487469-7-3
Editor: Tiffany Jones
Contributing editors: Ashley Sievwright, Gordon Thompson, Jodie Hare (UK)
Logo: Andrew Liu
Design: Gordon Thompson
Publication and distribution, Lightning Source, through eBook Alchemy—ebookalchemy.com
Cover: Jamie James | Nova Gina, Black Nulla, Koori Gras, Carriageworks 2019.
Back Cover: Jamie James | Workshop wall, development week, Koori Gras, Carriageworks 2019.
Section break images: Gordon Thompson | Colorado snow; Alcatraz kitchen—the knives are out; Bent St; Venice Beach carpark; Motel sign, Utah.
contents
Peter Waples-Crowe … Acknowledgement
Contents
Tiffany Jones—Introduction
1st person
InsideOUT—Peter Waples-Crowe
Out on the Fringes—Stephanie Amir
Mel Simpson—art
Interview—Andrew Farrell
Ashley Sievwright—greeting cards
Bee Cruse—The Prince of Redfern
Jamie James—Koori Gras 2019 photographs
Since Coming Out—Jodie Hare
The Womyn’s Circus—Jean Taylor
Interview—Maude Davey
Ayman Kaake—photographs
At home in this place—Stevie Lane
Leatherman-made climate change—Guy James Whitworth
The Dykemobile—Ashley Hardcastle
Samuel Luke Beatty—In Transit: Space, Time
essays
Still Here Still Queer, Still Invisible—Mandy Henningham
The Church herself—Clare Monagle
Ending LGBT conversion practices—Timothy W Jones, Jennifer Power, Tiffany M Jones
Rainbow warriors unite! —Alison Thorne
Proud 2 Play: LGBT+ Inclusion in Australian Sport—Ryan Storr
Frank Bonnici—art
Pride marches are contested space—Lisa Farrell
What LGBT parents want in schools—Trent Mann, Tiffany Jones
Everyone is south of China—Jason Li
Jake Cruz—art
‘Sodom Today, Gomorrah the world!’—Geoff Allshorn
2019: the year in queer
poetry
Renovator’s delight—Terry Jaensch
Ext. Park. Night.—Terry Jaensch
Birds that haunt me—Ashley Williams
Creek—Michelle Bishop
Comfortable—Samuel Luke Beatty
Colours End—Xavier
cab thoughts: EMP ty—Anna Leah D. Luna-Raven
Trading Saints—Jocelyn Deane
Her Homophobic Husbands—Reese Downing
Two poems—Stuart Barnes
#CBD—Adele Tan