‘Poofter-bashing’ was the ugly name given to a dreadful sport practiced across Australia throughout the 1970s, 1980s and beyond.
The 1972 murder of University of Adelaide law lecturer Dr George Ian Ogilvie Duncan is one such crime.
‘Neil said he was going to direct it; there would be a 40-piece choir on the Adelaide Festival Centre stage; and most intriguing for me, Neil said he wanted to use the oratorio form, which was really exciting for us. It’s a form that is usually used for sacred music and we were keen to embrace it as a gay form, a gay and lesbian and multi-queer form. So that was that; I just listened to him and then said yes,’ Valentine explained.
