Bent Street 3 sees the publication covering exciting developments within the broader Australian queer community, including the strengthening of public displays of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQA+ pride and visibility, views on ‘gay conversion’, historical perspectives on Stonewall, queer cabaret, religious discrimination, and much more. Bent Street 3 brings you ‘The Year in Queer 2019’.
Edited by Tiffany Jones.
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Bent Street 3 – contents and selected articles
1st person
InsideOUT—Peter Waples-Crowe
Out on the Fringes—Stephanie Amir
Mel Simpson — art
above: Alyssa Edwards by Mel Simpson
Indigenous Queer Studies academic, Andrew Farrell, a Wodi Wodi descendant from Jerrinja Aboriginal community on the South Coast of NSW, describes their development of world-first Aboriginal Queer University Units.
The Prince of Redfern – Bee Cruse
Jamie James — photographs Koori Gras 2019
Jamie James’ pictures of Koori Gras 2019 include the cover image for Bent Street 3 (Nova Gina, Black Nulla, Koori Gras 2019) – and (below) Mad B, Black Nulla, Koori Gras, Carriageworks. Images copyright Jamie James.
Since Coming Out—Jodie Hare
The Womyn’s Circus—Jean Taylor
Hannah Buttsworth — art

Renascence by Hannah Buttsworth
Interview—Maude Davey
Ayman Kaake—photographs:

Birth of the red butterflies – Ayman Kaake
At home in this place—Stevie Lane
Leatherman-made climate change—Guy James Whitworth
The Dykemobile—AB 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

Unnamed by Frank Bonnici
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

Froot Loop – by Jake Cruz
‘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— (Three poems) Jocelyn Deane
Her Homophobic Husbands—Reese Downing
Two poems—Stuart Barnes
#CBD—Adele Tan
fiction
Road Ode – Cat Cotsell
The Arrangement—Henry von Doussa
Pete—Gavriil Aleksandrs
Boring—Lionel Wright
Kim Leutwyler—art
Circumstances beyond our control—John Bartlett