Fish in a Barrel: Police Targeting of Brisbane’s Ephemeral Gay Spaces in the Pre-Decriminalization Era

Bleakley, Paul

doi:10.1080/00918369.2019.1695424

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“…By comparison, the Department of the Attorney General and Justice NSW (1978) focused on courts across the greater Sydney area for offences heard primarily in 1975, which found 107 cases, considerably fewer than reported by McGonigal. Such variation in the number of arrests and court appearances reported is a reminder that detection of homosexual offences was very much a function of police effort and resources (Bleakley 2019;Dalton 2012;Hodge 2012;Moore and Jamison 2007). Likewise, it is not known how many people with convictions are currently living.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Homosexual Expungement Law: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa

Grant

2023

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Until recently, a historical conviction for a homosexual offence remained on an individual’s criminal record until expungement legislation was enacted to facilitate such convictions to be spent. An analysis of parliamentary debates in New Zealand/Aotearoa and across Australia highlights the aim and opinions of lawmakers in their desire to bring about a therapeutic remedy to address the ‘criminal stain’ of a conviction for a historical homosexual offence. Along with the aim to remedy the effect of a conviction, parliaments used the law reform debate as a broader therapeutic project of inclusiveness for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) communities. The success of expungement is evidenced by the passing of legislation, with most applications to expunge granted. These positive outcomes are countered by a low number of applications to expunge, a refusal by all governments to provide reparations and the use of expungement legislation to garner favour with all members of LGBTIQ communities—a move open to an accusation of government virtue signalling.

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Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Homosexual Expungement Law: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa

Grant

2023

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…research and outreach (Binson et al, 2001;Gama et al, 2017), psychology (Flowers, Hart & Marriott, 1999;Frankis & Flowers, 2009), criminology (Valverde & Cirak, 2003;Woods, 2014), and history (Bleakley, 2021;Petri, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Knife's Edge of Visibility: Cruising, Surveillance, and Discursive Practices of Queer Communities in Ottawa

Kenyon¹

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This thesis investigates how men who have sex with men (MSM) discern, discuss, and defy issues of surveillance in the context of casual, public sex-also known as cruising-and how these exchanges constitute and inform subaltern countersurveillance measures. Focusing on written exchanges by users of the queer hook-up website Squirt, I analyze how users discuss safety and surveillance of cruising locations in the Greater Ottawa Area. This work concludes that surveillance and cruising is normalized, both police and ordinary citizens present safety risks, great care is taken to act discreetly and not infringe on the safety of non-cruisers, and environmental factors contribute greatly to the construction and circumvention of surveillance infrastructure.The data additionally complicate well-established perspectives on surveillance, including surveillance realism and introduce opportunities for queering and expanding future research.

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Massacre – Bodies the Matter: the mapping of queer violence in Sydney, Australia between 1970 and 2010

Walls

2024

International Journal of Cartography

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Fish in a Barrel: Police Targeting of Brisbane’s Ephemeral Gay Spaces in the Pre-Decriminalization Era

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Homosexual Expungement Law: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa

Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Homosexual Expungement Law: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa

The Knife's Edge of Visibility: Cruising, Surveillance, and Discursive Practices of Queer Communities in Ottawa

Massacre – Bodies the Matter: the mapping of queer violence in Sydney, Australia between 1970 and 2010

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