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They were really good. I mean to say, there was the wine bar at Hamilton, and we all used to go up there. And one night, I staggered out of the Star, and I was going to the wine bar. So they put me in the back of the paddy wagon and pulled up at the. The interview was for a book which was to become the landmark gay and lesbian history of the Hunter.

Stella performing at the Criterion Hotel. Photograph from the collectio n of Jon Mancinelli. But first, what was it like to be non-heterosexual in Newcastle, in the days before consensual sex between men was offand anti discrimination was enshrined in our laws ? It was the year Even then, it seems, they knew they were taking a calculated risk, as there were some local gays and lesbians who preferred their history to remain hidden.

Their fear, grounded in searing past experience, was that community relations would not improve; that even more exclusion and rejection would result. Nevertheless, the history was written. Parasol covered with 24 silver wine cask bladders. Photograph courtesy of Newcastle Museum. A glimpse of how things main to be Three years before, in July beaumont, an important gay in the gay and lesbian history of Newcastle had been celebrated.

The first gay and lesbian exhibition in a public museum outside of a capital city in Australia was held at the Newcastle Museum. The first night was attended by people, and bar by guest of honour, Kevin Coleman. Who was Kevin Coleman? At 15, he became an apprentice boilermaker at Civic Workshops.

Kevin was the life partner of Keith Robinson, from until Keith died in Keith Robinson owned a menswear shop in Hunter Street, Newcastle in the s — s. At that time, police were determined to enforce laws which made sexual acts between men a crime. Their procedure was to obtain names, then question those men in order to obtain more names, and so on.

While incredibly, Kevin withstood sustained pressure of police questioning, others could not. Kevin saw charges laid against his partner, who in effect was driven from Newcastle to seek a fair trial before a jury in Sydney. Kevin explains:.