Australian gay and lesbian writing : an anthology / edited by Robert Dessaix.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-381) and index.

A convict's letter 1846 / Anonymous -- Rouge et noir / John Le Gay Brereton -- I can't feel the sunshine ; Lie-a-bed / Lesbia Harford -- Elegy for a bachelor uncle / Thomas Shapcott -- Ganymede / Gwen Harwood -- Hamid / Javant Biarujia -- from Surly girls / Susan Hampton -- Young men's bodies / Thomas Shapcott -- from All that false instruction / Elizabeth Riley -- Graffiti / Jenny Pausacker -- Dawn ; The El Paso Restaurant / Rae Desmond Jones -- Aviator ; Obscure figure / Peter Rose -- Passion at Byron Bay ; Monster in the park ; Dialogue / Tony Page -- Satires / David Herkt -- from Working hot / Mary Fallon -- from Save me from the shark / Donald Friend -- Two hanged women ; The wrong turning / Henry Handel Richardson -- Sauce / Dorothy Porter -- from Peter / Kate Walker -- from Miss Peabody's inheritance / Elizabeth Jolley -- from Fairyland / Sumner Locke Elliott -- Night training / David Malouf -- from The comfort of men / Dennis Altman -- The everlasting secret family / Frank Moorhouse -- The new temple ; Just to talk ; My sleeping brother ; All touch ; Lies and tin ; Little brother ; Smenkhkare's wedding / Dorothy Porter -- from The young desire it / Kenneth 'Seaforth' Mackenzie -- Athlete / Don Maynard -- The dream / Hal Porter -- from Remember the tarantella / Finola Moorhead -- from Distractions / Benedict Ciantar -- from The elocution of Benjamin Franklin / Steve J. Spears -- from The Twyborn affair / Patrick White -- from The beat / Simon Payne -- La chance existe / Helen Garner -- Requiem / Sasha Soldatow -- Pumpkin Max / Tim Herbert -- Unholding here ; Dark destroyer ; Stars ; Hearing you read the poems ; Poem / David Malouf -- from Zimmer's essay / Robert Adamson and Bruce Hanford -- Poem for our fifth year / Bev Roberts -- from Is that you Nancy? / Sandra Shotlander -- from JF was here / Nigel Krauth -- Is this how whales? Assignation / Michael Dransfield -- A game of Go / Nicholas Jose -- Memoirs of a velvet urinal / Michael Dransfield -- Difficult letter ; Hotel room revisited / David Malouf -- Memorabilia / Peter Rose -- Lace / Susan Hampton -- from Alone / Beverley Farmer -- Arachne / Val Vallis.