Gabrielle (Gay) Walsh has written works as diverse as The Long and Short of It: Truth is Stranger than Fiction, a book of political satire that she also illustrated; L’etranger, a play about the murder of the Cambridge University-educated gay law lecturer, Dr Duncan; a one woman show for the Adelaide Festival Fringe titled Habeas Corpus and The Local State: a history of Queensland local government. She lives in the Torres Strait with her partner Aurora.
A fascinating account of life in a period of great social and political change. Gabrielle Walsh discusses her personal experiences of pursuing feminism and gay rights amidst the stigma and tradition of a patriarchal society. Traversing the period from the beginning of the 1950s until the present, it...