y separately published work icon Sydney Star Observer newspaper  
Alternative title: The Sydney Star
Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 Sydney Star Observer
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Sydney Star Observer is a weekly gay and lesbian community newspaper.

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  • Weekly
  • Founded in 1979 under its original title The Sydney Star.

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Sex, Sleaze and Righteous Anger : The Rise and Fall of Gay Magazines and Newspapers in Australia Jeremy Fisher , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 25 2014;

'For much of the 20th century, homosexuality was illegal in Australia. The country was also subject to draconian censorship; overt homosexual works were banned. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, social change was afoot and publications of the homosexual rights and gay liberation movements began to appear, soon joined by more commercial publications aligned to an increasingly overt gay sub-culture. These publications prospered over the next three decades. Their focus ranged from earnest

proselytising to post-modern pornography. Most maintained strong links to their readerships, even though many of them were distributed free of charge and relied on

advertising to survive. This paper chronicles the range of these publications and examines how they helped develop and foster a gay, lesbian or queer readership (and

hence outside the mainstream); explores how and why the printed forms of these publications gradually merged within the mainstream as same-sex relationships lost their deviance; and notes that these publications have largely been replaced by digital alternatives in the 21st century. ' (Publication abstract)

Sex, Sleaze and Righteous Anger : The Rise and Fall of Gay Magazines and Newspapers in Australia Jeremy Fisher , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 25 2014;

'For much of the 20th century, homosexuality was illegal in Australia. The country was also subject to draconian censorship; overt homosexual works were banned. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, social change was afoot and publications of the homosexual rights and gay liberation movements began to appear, soon joined by more commercial publications aligned to an increasingly overt gay sub-culture. These publications prospered over the next three decades. Their focus ranged from earnest

proselytising to post-modern pornography. Most maintained strong links to their readerships, even though many of them were distributed free of charge and relied on

advertising to survive. This paper chronicles the range of these publications and examines how they helped develop and foster a gay, lesbian or queer readership (and

hence outside the mainstream); explores how and why the printed forms of these publications gradually merged within the mainstream as same-sex relationships lost their deviance; and notes that these publications have largely been replaced by digital alternatives in the 21st century. ' (Publication abstract)

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