Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

HISCOCK #1
You inspired me in many ways, David, and I will miss you very much.
A day doesn’t go by that I don’t think about you at Disco City, The Newtown or The Honest Irishman Hotel.
Thanks for putting me on to some great music in the early ’80s. I learnt a lot from you.
-” Paul Goodyear
HISCOCK #2
I had the pleasure of working with Dave (Hilda) at the Newtown Hotel, and they were some of the best days of my life.
Dave’s humour, friendship and excellent music not only at the Newtown but the Midnight Shift and the numerous Mardi Gras parties will always be remembered by me with fond memories.
Dave, never stop spinning those tunes!
-” Kevin
HISCOCK #3
RIP David, thanks for your contribution to our lives.
-” Peter
HISCOCK #4
Always the gentleman, never too busy to chat, never too vain to help, no ego,the most genuine guy I’d had the pleasure to meet … keep on mixin’ mate.
God bless you.
­-” Matt
HISCOCK #5
I first met David in the mid-70s in the early days of the Dover Hotel. David was there in the corner playing his music to us.
He was fabulous. Almost everytime I was there he played something new. He made a night great for us all.
I know David will be sadly missed by everyone who he energised on the dancefloor.
Never will I forget his laugh and his smiles from the DJ booth.
-” Greg
HISCOCK #6
David was my neighbour during the days of the famous house in St George’s Rd, Toorak where a great many social times were initiated in the days just prior to the onslaught of the discos. In fact we initiated the discos in Melbourne.
Most of the boys in the house were DJs in those days. This house was the scene of many gay times in the 70s.
David’s career was extensive and his bouncy, endless -˜punny’ quips seemed to punctuate his entire dialogue.
He brought some measure of reality to Oscar Wilde’s claim that -˜life is too important to be taken seriously’.
He will be be sorely missed by those who will remember him for his insistence on experiencing the jocular side of life. He was a gay soul in the truest sense and brought a joyful aspect to life.
He has completed his task here.
Thank you, David.
-” Trevor
HISCOCK #7
Very sad to hear of David’s passing. Many early memories of David at the Union Hotel, Blades and Pokies. Great times with Jan and Doug.
David was a wonderful man -” true and honest. He will be greatly missed by many.
Sincere condolences to family and friends.
-” Laurie

HISCOCK #8

What a terrible loss. Gay Sydney will be so much worse off now.
I knew David for a long time and worked with him for the past three years at the Midnight Shift.
Our paths would cross almost every weekend in the DJ booth. I have so many great stories and fond memories I don’t know where to start.
I will remember these happy times every time I hear an Almighty remix.
David, you knew how much I appreciated your help, sense of humour and camp music.
I told you numerous times how much I enjoyed working with you and how I appreciated your gifts of music. I was truly grateful for your generosity.
What I wish I wasn’t telling you is how much you will be missed.
Thank you for the musical journey, Hilda. A journey we hoped would last a lot longer.
Disco heaven will be a damn lot more fun now. I’m sure you’ll be playing our song.
-” Dean Cullen

MAJORITY RULE
Once we get that referendum out of the way then we can vote on whether or not we want to legally discriminate against Asians, and then Aboriginals, and then Muslims and then other minority groups who have been traditionally oppressed by the majority in Australia.
The majority should always have the right to vote on whether or not minority citizens should have equal access to the institutions, rights, responsibilities and benefits that their money and blood pay for.
Civil rights should be a matter of majority rule. If minorities were meant to have rights God would have made them the majority.
­-” Zeke

THAT’S SO GAY
Good on Marrickville council for sticking up for gay families. They do a great job in this area.
Also Vicki Harding does a great job, and is always volunteering her time. I urge everyone to buy as many copies of her books as you can -” give them out to extended family members as presents.
If kids these days can freely use the phrase -˜that’s so gay’, then the word can also be used to describe when some kid has two dads or two mums.
­-” David

HUMAN RIGHTS
One of the few constitutional rights that Australians have is a right to freedom of as much as freedom from religion.
Yet our governments remain in morbid dread of Christian fundamentalists, who continue to shape legislation and policy to suit their own misguided ends.
There is no such thing as half a human right and those people advocating for GLBTI people to tread softly, go quietly, step-by-step, are in fact selling out the inalienable rights that each of us should possess as free citizens in a free country.
That includes the right to form legally recognised civil unions.
Yet another reason why Australia needs, at a federal and state by state level, charters of rights.
-” Stephen

GAY HOMOPHOBES
I am an Australian resident and a UK citizen. I am civil partnered (in the UK).
I strongly believe it is about time members of the gay community see this legal union as positive.
The idea that because you are attracted to the same sex means you should not have the same rights in society or should see heterosexuality as negative is rubbish. LGBT peoples are as individual as everyone else.
How can we expect society to move on when some LGBT people are more homophobic than the homophobes we seek to challenge?
-” Simon

OPINIONS WANTED
I am a media student from the University of Sydney and I would like to find someone who is able to comment about how the government changes affected them and their partner.
I am concerned as to what the views of the community are on this issue -” whether they see it as rights bundled with responsibilities or whether they see it as too much to ask in too little time.
I can be contacted at [email protected] and I would be happy to arrange a phone or personal interview if necessary.
-” Nathan

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3 responses to “Letters to the Editor”

  1. Mr Mahli-Quoting your letter to the ed -at the end of your piece you said “Gay men may need to think about our own evolution and start a revolution” Well, Sir-we actually need to RE-start the revolution begun around 1978 to the early eighties,when it was snuffed out by HIV.We need to re tell the stories of our lost boys because the flower of our youth was lost forever at that time (and indeed continues to this day)!

  2. I am preparing a digital story about my life in Sydney and (latterly)Woolloomoolloo.I am desperately looking for images from The Sydney Star circa 1980+_.As co-founder of -œThe Midnight Shift and proprietor of -œThe Ox,bartender -œThe Pits myself and Brian Black were often featured in the paper.I also was interviewed by Craig Johnson at this time.Any input at all would be appreciated!

  3. Dear Editor

    The cliche of the gay dress designer, hair stylist etc has been what straight girls think being gay is all about.
    Gay brothers who have a talent for dress design obviously need this market or customer to wear their clothes.

    However alot of these women don’t really care about gay equality, homophobia etc.

    Some may pretend to, so they don’t get the back lash of some queen making them look vile.

    The evolution of the women’s movement and feminism, debating the body image and posing the question who is responsible for Bulimia and anorexia.???? Gay Cat Walk Queens or Women’s Magazines who control the image of the SISTER-HOOD.

    This brought forth the the mean girl mentality, that most gay men have been in denial about.

    Women want to empower themselves by designing for themselves not what gay men think is right for them.
    They want a gay dummy as a decoy whilst they break the glass ceiling of the straight mans corporate domain.

    If your gay and NOT a fashion designer or hair dresser then why would they want to have lunch with you.

    To them John Galliano is a freak and vile queen , they would never say this out loud but will confide with their blokey boyfriends about how weird Galliano (Dior) and Lagerfield ( Channel) are.

    These gay brothers make beautiful dresses and can give these beautiful Women a real ego boost, and raise their profile.

    So yes John gets accepted by these women, but he also gets rewarded financially for supplying a product they desire. that’s what keeps this Beauty versus ugly Fag Cycle perpetuating.

    Morrissey the Fashion designer may be the first of this anti-gay sentiment.
    Female controlled media fashion magazines, newspaper comentators actually added to his downfall, and subliminal undermining of Morrissey creating a lasting brand.

    Vogue editor in chief recently declared ” that Wayne Cooper is not really a designer” so now Vogue Fashionistas are now out to destroy Wayne Cooper the Hetrosexual designer, so male designers may need to find another industry to work in.

    Well Morrissey has scored the Mc Donalds Uniform gig. Hope he is more sensitive to the needs of the workers than he was to the Qantas stewards. Enough said already.

    Is it a sign of the times that women are sick of gay men controlling their image. Ask the ex-partner of Morrissey, Leona Edmiston.

    Ms Edminston seems to have washed all the gay dregs from her hair and life has become a great Feminist Victory. OOPS sorry to any gay Queens I stepped on whilst I was in the Gay Ghetto, but I always knew I would escape with a straight man to save me. Just like Madonna escaped the gay Ghetto. Leona Edminston has emerged as a successful and gay free women’s wear designer.

    Madonna played the game in her career getting fashion advice from gay men, but ultimately I think she doesn’t really love gay men as much as her gay fans adore her. Its really a one way street, Madonna gets uptown Glamour Manhattan and her gay ghetto fans either got aids or skid Row… Madonna seems to invest her charity funds in Kabala ( Not Sincerely gay friendly) and opening hetrosexual schools. Her Brother Christopher has enlightened us all. Thank you Chris…

    I don’t know what the answer is , how do gay men survive in this world, do they always have to be the dresser, hairstylist, Do they have to skill up into another industry??? and forget about their passion for fashion design and glamour???

    These Beauty Pagent contestants anti-gay comments may be a “good thing” for gay culture It may be the wake up call we all need.

    Yes gay designers you are dressing the enemy, making the look beautiful and increasing their profiles, bank accounts

    Natalie Basthingwaite is being groomed as the next straight Gay ICon

    Selling out will always catch up with you at some stage, and maybe the lesbians who can’t stand these stupid bitches have been right all along.

    Gay men may need to think about our own evolution and start a revolution. M