Sydney Anglicans and homosexuality

Journal of Homosexuality

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 101-123

  Hilliard, David ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; CHRISTIAN; CLERGY; ETHICS; FEMALE; GENDER; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LESBIAN; MALE; MORALITY; POLICY; PUBLIC OPINION; RELIGION; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

CHRISTIANITY; CIVIL RIGHTS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 0030947643     PISSN: 00918369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J082v33n02_06     Document Type: Article

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1. Denise Thompson, Flaws in the Social Fabric: Homosexuals and Society in Sydney (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1985), 153-6.
2. Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 1994; Church Scene (Melbourne), 4 March 1994; Southern Cross (Sydney), April 1994.
3. Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 1994; Church Scene (Melbourne), 4 March 1994; Southern Cross (Sydney), April 1994.
4. Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 1994; Church Scene (Melbourne), 4 March 1994; Southern Cross (Sydney), April 1994.
5. Stephen Judd and Kenneth Cable, Sydney Anglicans: A History of the Diocese (Sydney: Anglican Information Office, 1987); Marcus Loane, Hewn from the Rock: Origins and Traditions of the Church in Sydney (Sydney: Anglican Information Office, 1976).
6. Stephen Judd and Kenneth Cable, Sydney Anglicans: A History of the Diocese (Sydney: Anglican Information Office, 1987); Marcus Loane, Hewn from the Rock: Origins and Traditions of the Church in Sydney (Sydney: Anglican Information Office, 1976).
7. William James Lawton, The Better Time To Be: Utopian Attitudes to Society among Sydney Anglicans, 1885 to 1914 (Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press, 1990); [W. J.] Bill Lawton, "The Winter of Our Days: The Anglican Diocese of Sydney, 1950-1960," Lucas: An Evangelical History Review (Sydney), 9 (1990), 11-32.
8. William James Lawton, The Better Time To Be: Utopian Attitudes to Society among Sydney Anglicans, 1885 to 1914 (Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press, 1990); [W. J.] Bill Lawton, "The Winter of Our Days: The Anglican Diocese of Sydney, 1950-1960," Lucas: An Evangelical History Review (Sydney), 9 (1990), 11-32.
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10. Peter T. O'Brien and David G. Peterson (eds.), God Who Is Rich in Mercy: Essays Presented to Dr. D. B. Knox (Homebush, NSW: Anzea, 1986); Marcus L. Loane and Peter F. Jensen, Broughton Knox: Principal of Moore College, 1959-1985 (Newtown, NSW: Moore Theological College, 1994).
11. L. C. Rodd, John Hope of Christ Church St Laurence: A Sydney Church Era (Sydney: Alpha, 1972), 235-6. See also Brian Cartledge, "The Biography-in-Progress of Harold William Rogers, Anglican Priest [1922-1988]," in Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon (eds.), Gay Perspectives: Essays in Australian Gay Culture (Sydney: Department of Economic History, University of Sydney, 1992), 113-29; David Hilliard, "UnEnglish and Unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexuality," Victorian Studies, 25 (1982), 181-210.
12. L. C. Rodd, John Hope of Christ Church St Laurence: A Sydney Church Era (Sydney: Alpha, 1972), 235-6. See also Brian Cartledge, "The Biography-in-Progress of Harold William Rogers, Anglican Priest [1922-1988]," in Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon (eds.), Gay Perspectives: Essays in Australian Gay Culture (Sydney: Department of Economic History, University of Sydney, 1992), 113-29; David Hilliard, "UnEnglish and Unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexuality," Victorian Studies, 25 (1982), 181-210.
13. L. C. Rodd, John Hope of Christ Church St Laurence: A Sydney Church Era (Sydney: Alpha, 1972), 235-6. See also Brian Cartledge, "The Biography-in-Progress of Harold William Rogers, Anglican Priest [1922-1988]," in Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon (eds.), Gay Perspectives: Essays in Australian Gay Culture (Sydney: Department of Economic History, University of Sydney, 1992), 113-29; David Hilliard, "UnEnglish and Unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexuality," Victorian Studies, 25 (1982), 181-210.
14. E.g., Adrian Dickson, "Adrian Finds His Avalon," in Garry Wotherspoon (ed.), Being Different (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1986), 76-8.
15. Presbyterian Church in New South Wales, The Responsibility of the Church Regarding Homosexuality (Sydney: New South Wales Presbyterian Assembly, Church and Nation Committee, 1968).
16. Diocese of Sydney, Ethics and Social Questions Committee, Abortion Report (Sydney: Diocese of Sydney, 1970).
17. Garry Wotherspoon, "City of the Plain": History of a Gay Sub-Culture (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1991), 168-75.
18. Wotherspoon, "City of the Plain," 129-30.
19. For the significance of the play in the Australian context, see John Rickard, "The Boys in the Band Revisited," Meanjin (Melbourne), 52 (1993), 661-7.
20. Wotherspoon, "City of the Plain," 119-20, 242n.
21. Ray Weir, "Homosexuality: Summary of talk given at Clergy School 1972," duplicated, copy in possession of author.
22. Sydney Morning Herald, 9 November 1972.
23. P. Bonsall-Boone to J. McGeechin, 29 November 1972, Bonsall-Boone papers, in possession of Peter Bonsall-Boone, Sydney.
24. Campaign Against Moral Persecution, handout at demonstration, 12 November 1972, Bonsall-Boone papers; CAMP INK (Sydney), 2:12 (1972).
25. Australian, 13 November 1972. Twenty years later the Chequerboard program and demonstration were recalled in "Out of Closet and Cloister," Sydney Star Observer, 11 December 1992.
26. Australian, 13 November 1972. Twenty years later the Chequerboard program and demonstration were recalled in "Out of Closet and Cloister," Sydney Star Observer, 11 December 1992.
27. D. Broughton Knox, "Homosexuality," Southern Cross, February 1973, 14-15.
28. Evangelical views of the 1970s are usefully summarized by Peter Coleman, Christian Attitudes to Homosexuality (London: SPCK, 1980), 230-36.
29. David Broughton Knox, Not by Bread Alone: God's Word on Present Issues (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1989), 108.
30. Tony Bagnall, "Homosexuality," Southern Cross, May 1973, 12.
31. Sydney Morning Herald, 14 July 1973; Arena (Macquarie University Students' Council), 24 July 1973; CAMP INK, 3:5 (1973).
32. Sydney Morning Herald, 14 July 1973; Arena (Macquarie University Students' Council), 24 July 1973; CAMP INK, 3:5 (1973).
33. Sydney Morning Herald, 14 July 1973; Arena (Macquarie University Students' Council), 24 July 1973; CAMP INK, 3:5 (1973).
34. "Matters Relating to Robert Menzies College: (Further) Report of Committee Appointed by Council," for Macquarie University Council, 27 September 1973, Bruce Mansfield papers, in possession of Professor Bruce Mansfield, Sydney.
35. B. L. Smith, "Homosexuality in the Bible and the Law," Interchange, 1 (1968), 222.
36. Dennis Altman in Nation Review (Sydney), 23-29 November 1973.
37. Owen Chadwick, Michael Ramsey: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), 145-9.
38. Diocese of Sydney, Ethics and Social Questions Committee, Report on Homosexuality: Report of the Ethics and Social Questions Committee to the Synod of the Church of England, Diocese of Sydney (Sydney: Diocese of Sydney, Ethics and Social Questions Committee, 1973);
39. resolutions of synod, 1973, in Year Book of the Diocese of Sydney, 1974, 255;
40. Sydney Morning Herald, 26 October 1973.
41. E.g., review of Report on Homosexuality by Don Meadows, in Australian Church Record (Sydney), 13 December 1973, and ensuing correspondence.
42. Australian Church Record, 13 June 1974, 7.
43. Graham Carbery, A History of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (Parkville, Vic.: Australian Gay and Lesbian Archives, 1995).
44. Wotherspoon, "City of the Plain," 193.
45. For Festival of Light attitudes towards and publications on homosexuality, see Thompson, Flaws in the Social Fabric, 142-53.
46. Resolutions of synod, 1977, in Year Book of the Diocese of Sydney 1978, 249.
47. See D. B. Knox's dissenting addendum to The Ministry of Women: A Report of the General Synod Commission on Doctrine (Sydney: Church of England in Australia, General Synod Office, 1977), 29-33.
48. E.g., editorial, Australian Church Record, 11 June 1984, 8; "Is Homosexuality Next?" The Briefing (Sydney), September 1992, 13-14.
49. E.g., editorial, Australian Church Record, 11 June 1984, 8; "Is Homosexuality Next?" The Briefing (Sydney), September 1992, 13-14.
50. Southern Cross, May 1981, 2.
51. The records of AngGays are held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, ML MSS 5361.
52. E.g., an 8-page booklet Judge Others? (Hunters Hill, NSW: AngGays, 1981).
53. "Report of the Standing Committee on a 1983 Synod Motion on Homosexuality and Ministry," in Year Book of the Diocese of Sydney, 1986, 309-13.
54. R. Forsyth to E. Teece, 20 February 1985, photocopy of original, in possession of author.
55. L. A. Straw to A. Pethybridge, 20 November 1985, AngGays records. Six years later the excommunication became front page news: Sydney Morning Herald, 12 February 1992.
56. Australian Church Record, 20 October 1986, 1.
57. "AngGays Says Goodbye," 1990, copy in possession of author.
58. Resolutions of synod, 1981, in Year Book of the Diocese of Sydney, 1982, 260.
59. "Report of the Committee re 17/84 Counselling Service for Homosexuals," in Year Book of the Diocese of Sydney, 1986, 302-8.
60. B. G. Webb (ed.), Theological and Pastoral Responses to Homosexuality, Explorations, 8 (Adelaide: Openbook, 1994).
61. Southern Cross, September 1993, 17-18, October 1994, 25-6.