- Title
- Don't talk about sex in public - it's Newcastle
- Creator
- Wafer, Jim
- Relation
- Radical Newcastle p. 271-278
- Relation
- https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/radical-newcastle/
- Publisher
- NewSouth
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- I have covered some of the earlier attempts to demystify sex and sexual variation in the Newcastle region in my contribution to the compilation of Hunter gay and lesbian histories called 'Out in the Valley.' Rather than go over that ground again, what I propose to do here is look at the exertions of one iconic individual who was only mentioned in passing in that volume: Godfrey Tanner. The fact that Godfrey was, or became, such an iconic figure, both at the university and in the city at large, seems, at first glance, highly mysterious. It is almost as though Godfrey and Newcastle were ideally suited to each other, in spite of the obvious contrasts between a highly eccentric gay classicist with an Oxbridge accent and a staid provincial industrial town in the Antipodes. One could speculate about why this was so, and there are many pertinent sociological angles that I do not have space to explore here. But there is one approach that is immediately relevant to the theme of this paper: Godfrey and Newcastle were both conflicted about sex - or, at least, about sexual variations and the public discussion of them.
- Subject
- Newcastle; Godfrey Tanner; sexuality; sexual variation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309482
- Identifier
- uon:21887
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781742232591
- Language
- eng
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