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Homosexuality

Chesser, Lucy. “‘When Two Loving Hearts Beat as One’: Same‐Sex Marriage, Subjectivity and Self‐Representation in the Australian Case of Marion‐Bill‐Edwards, 1906–1916.” Women’s History Review 17, no. 5 (2008): 721-42.

de Waal, Peter. Unfit for publication : NSW Supreme Court and other bestiality, buggery and sodomy trials 1727-1930. Balmain, N.S.W. : P. de Waal, 2007.

Ford, Ruth. “’Lady-Friends’ and ‘Sexaul Deviationists’: Lesbians and Law in Australia, 1920s-1950s.” In Sex, Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia, edited by Diane Kirkby, 33-49. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Ford, Ruth. “‘The man-woman murderer’: sex fraud, sexual inversion and the unmentionable article in 1920s Australia.” Gender and History 12, no. 1 (2000): 158-196.

Jennings, Rebecca. ‘”It Was Quite a Scary Time”: Lesbians and Violence in Post-War Australia’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 145-159.

Moore, Clive R., and Yorick Smaal. “Homophobia in fin de siècle colonial Queensland.” In Homophobia: An Australian History, 63-85. Sydney: Federation Press, 2008.

Moore, Clive. “Pink elephants and drunken police: Bohemian Brisbane in the 1940s.” In Studies in Australian Culture, edited by Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon, 132-163. Sydney: Australian Centre for Gay and Lesbian Research, 1998.

Moore, Clive. “That abominable crime: First steps in the social history of male homosexuals in colonial Queensland, 1859-1900.” In Gay Perspectives II: More Essays in Australian Gay Culture, edited by Robert Aldrich, 115-148. Sydney: Department of Economci History, University of Sydney, 1993.

Robinson, Shirleene. “Homophobia as Party Politics: The Construction of the ‘Homosexual Deviant’ in Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland.” Queensland Review 17, no. 1 (2010): 29-45.

Smaal, Yorick, and Mark Finnane. “Flappers and Felons: Rethinking the Criminal Law and Homosex in Interwar Australia, 1920-1939.” In From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives since 1789, edited by Mark Seymour, 83-93. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Smaal, Yorick. “Indecent and indecorous behavior: The police and homosexuality in turn-of-the-century Queensland.” In Intimacy, Violence and Activism: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives on Australasian History and Society (pp. 56-73). (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2013).

Smaal, Yorick. “It is one of those things that nobody can explain: Medicine, homosexuality and the Australian criminal courts during World War II.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 22, no. 3 (2013): 501-524.

Smaal, Yorick. “Revisiting Queensland’s war-time sex panics: Moral alarm, male homosexuality and policing public space. In Crime over Time: Temporal Perspectives on Crime and Punishment in Australia, edited by Robyn Lincoln and Shirleene Robinson, 111-142. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010).

Smaal, Yorick. “The ‘leniency problem’: A Queensland case study on sentencing male same-sex offences, 1939-1948.” Women’s History Review 21, no. 5 (2012): 793-811.

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