I'll never forget the first words Colin Anderson ever said to me. Colin was Head of Drama at Charles Sturt University. I was the newly arrived Morning Show presenter at ABC Riverina. I'd only been living in Wagga Wagga for about one week. In fact, I was still living at a local pub. Through circumstance, … Continue reading Wagga Wagga Gays and Lesbians (early 90s)
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Wagga Wagga aka Wagga is a city of around 60,000 people in Southern NSW. I lived there for over three years, from the end of 1991 to the beginning of 1995. I have many fond memories of my time there.
I spent an hour or so this evening at the State Library of NSW. There were a few old newspaper articles I was interested in, as part of a story I'm writing for this blog. During the early 1990s, I was one of a number of people who cofounded the Riverina Gay and Lesbian Social … Continue reading A Wagga boys story
"Do you think I could live in Wagga?", a friend asked me via text a few months ago. Enthusiastically, I told her yes. I have many fond memories of my time living in Wagga in the early 1990s. Although she's lived in the city - Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney - for most of the … Continue reading Wagga Wagga : Then and Now
It's Sunday night, I'm in Wagga Wagga and I'm killing time, ahead of catching the XPT back to Sydney. Though I've gone first class on travel, I've booked economy for accommodation for my brief visit back to Wagga. I've been staying at Romano's. Co-incidentally, it's the place where I stayed for my first week in … Continue reading Twenty-Four Hours in Wagga Wagga
Having worked as a journalist and broadcaster for over thirty years, I've got to know a LOT of politicians. In my view, some of them have been very good people, and some of them have been arseholes. On one side of politics, I've had the son a politician threaten me with physical violence over a … Continue reading The Boy from Boree Creek
Having spent a few years in the early 1990s, living in Wagga Wagga, I was well aware of the story of Captain Moonlite, the bushranger, and the hold-up at nearby Wantabadgery Station in 1879. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Moonlite What I wasn't aware of until the mid 1990s, was the suggestion he had been involved in a same-sex relationship … Continue reading Captain Moonlite and James Nesbitt
A couple of years ago, I wrote the following: Twenty five years ago (or thereabouts) I remember attending the National Choral Championships in Wagga Wagga. Although it sounds fairly tame, the championship organisers found themselves the subject of national media interest, as they asked the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir to change their name to … Continue reading The Eastern Suburbs G&L Choir