Adelaide’s Flowering Homosexual Culture: 1939‐1972

The rise of a homosexual culture in Adelaide by the end of the 1930s has been documented previously. Little has been published on the culture during World War II and up to the 1972 murder of a homosexual university lecturer, Dr Duncan, allegedly at the hands of the police. His death sparked widespread debate, culminating with South Australia becoming the first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise homosexuality. This paper traces the features and development of that culture during the years 1939-1972. In so doing, the paper draws extensively on a unique oral history collection which has only recently become available to researchers

Police Persecution of Adelaide’s Homosexual Culture: 1945-1972

The flowering of Adelaide’s homosexual culture in the years immediately following World War II and before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the 1970s was accompanied by persecution at the hands of the South Australian police. This essay draws substantially on extensive oral history records previously unavailable to researchers to delineate police abuse of powers during that period. Particular strategies explicitly designed to identify, control and destroy the homosexual culture – including informants, entrapment, verballing, coercion and harassment – were employed by the police throughout these years

One little jurisdiction. by Dino Hodge

The story of anti-discrimination initiatives in the Northern Territory between August 1989 and February 1991

Pink, red and vermilion: homophobia in the life and times of Don Dunstan

© 2012 Dr. Dino HodgeThis study identifies and examines the nature and expression of homophobia during the life and times of Don Dunstan (1926-1999), Premier of South Australia in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. From the time of his election in 1953 to the South Australian Parliament until his retirement in 1979, Dunstan worked to bring about political and cultural reform. After retirement he continued promoting such reform until his death. The thesis is part political biography and part political history. The principal concern is social policy: what dynamics did homophobia bring to bear on social policy in the mid-twentieth century; how did these dynamics affect the lives of citizens; what did this mean for the reform goals of a bisexual political leader with a social justice outlook setting out in the early 1950s; and, how did his aims unfold over the remaining decades of the twentieth century? Dunstan’s life enables a narrative which expands our understanding of homophobia. The details about his bisexuality illustrate the effects of homophobia on individual lives. But the details about Dunstan’s political work illuminate the impact of homophobia on social policy. At times the private life is entangled with the public life; this creates complexity but also generates greater insight into homophobia’s negative effects. In the mid-twentieth century the discourse about homosexuality expanded from morality, first to include state security and then human rights. Often the principal agent of homophobia directly impacting on citizens’ lives was South Australia’s Police Force. Beginning in the late 1940s and continuing throughout the 1950s, 1960s and into the 1970s, the police pursued a systematic approach to identifying and destroying homosexual networks. Dunstan began challenging police abuse of powers from the first year of his election to the Parliament. During the 1950s he began to articulate his views about civil liberties in social policy. Dunstan was promoting his reforms during the early 1960s before the establishment in South Australia of the Humanist Society and the Council for Civil Liberties. By the mid-1960s he was implementing policies to reduce the drastic impact of homophobia; this occurred several years prior to the gay liberation movement of the 1970s that saw gay and lesbian activists publicly arguing for law reform and cultural change. From his retirement in 1979 until his death in 1999, Dustan continued to advocate for social justice through his contributions to legal and health policy issues as well as to social policy issues affecting homosexual citizens. Dunstan’s social policy initiatives in legislative and cultural reform have come to be implemented across the country. Yet not one of Dunstan’s achievements in resisting homophobia has been properly accounted for in the historical record. Further, the historical record fails to accurately detail the homophobic attacks against Dunstan that played a critical role in his decision to retire as Premier and from parliamentary life. The narrative formulated in this thesis about homophobia in South Australian social policy during the second half of the twentieth century is the first Australian longitudinal study of homophobia. It finds that Don Dunstan, more than any other parliamentarian in the history of twentieth-century Australia, succeeded in challenging institutionalised homophobia and in promoting the civil rights of homosexual citizens

Homogenization of steady-state creep of porous metals using three-dimensional microstructural reconstructions

The effective steady-state creep response of porous metals is studied by numerical homogenization and analytical modeling in this paper. The numerical homogenization is based on finite element models of three-dimensional microstructures directly reconstructed from tomographic images. The effects of model size, representativeness, and boundary conditions on the numerical results are investigated. Two analytical models for creep rate of porous bodies are derived by extending the Hashin-Shtrikman bound and the Ramakrishnan-Arunchalam model in linear elasticity to steady-state creep based on nonlinear homogenization. The numerical homogenization prediction and analytical models obtained in this work are compared against reported measurements and models. The relationship between creep rate and porosity computed by homogenization is found to be bounded by the Hodge-Dunand model and the Hashin-Shtrikman creep model, and closely matched by the Gibson-Ashby compression and the Ramakrishnan-Arunchalam creep models. [All rights reserved Elsevier]