26 September 2010

Gay Canberra

| johnboy
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The SameSame website has a rundown of all Canberra has to offer the gay traveller.

Anything they missed?

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An ACT election result was changed by local gays protesting upgrades of public toilets?

Now THAT’s a conspiracy theory.

troll-sniffer said :

The little park opposite RMC?

johnboy’s favourite pub?

20/20 cricket

R. Slicker said :

…As a result local gays began an email campaign against Smyth and the Liberal government prior to the 2001 ACT election which helped Stanhope come to power.

Really? How does the gay community feel about that in retrospect?

troll-sniffer6:06 pm 26 Sep 10

The little park opposite RMC?

johnboy’s favourite pub?

That’s probably the most complimentary write-up of Canberra I’ve seen linked on this site.

I-filed said :

KB1971 said :

The toilets at Yarramundee Reach???????

Telopea Park?

Both wrong, unfortunately. Yarramundi Reach (the correct spelling) hasn’t been a gay beat since after the 2003 bushfires when it was renamed The Lyndsay Prior Arboretum and given a huge makeover by the powers that be. I think you mean Black Mountain Penninsula. Telopea Park was of course a historic gay beat dating back to the early days of Canberra, which was caught up in Brendan Smyth’s great purge of late 2000 (done under the guise of “upgrading public toilets”). As a result local gays began an email campaign against Smyth and the Liberal government prior to the 2001 ACT election which helped Stanhope come to power.

KB1971 said :

The toilets at Yarramundee Reach???????

Telopea Park?

The toilets at Yarramundee Reach???????

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