The Yellow Socks Affair

A blitz of anti-gay arrests swept over Newcastle, New South Wales in the 1950’s inspired by nothing more than a display in a gay-owned mens’ clothing store became one of the most terrifying chapters in Australian queer history. John Witte of the Hunter Rainbow History Group and Kevin Coleman, partner of infamous haberdasher Keith Robinson, (interviewed by Sydney correspondent Barry McKay). And in NewsWrap: Spain’s trans people can legally change gender without medical intervention under sweeping gender and sexuality-related reforms, the Church of England’s decision to allow priests to bless the marriages of same-gender couples deepens the North-South Anglican divide, a gay Chechen refugee faces mortal danger after Russian police return him to his native country, an Arkansas state senator’s trans-phobic insult gets the shade he deserves, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by John Dyer V and Kalyn Hardman (produced by Brian DeShazor).  All this on the February 20, 2023 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/