Growing up gay in Australia was tough. This week’s Sydney council book ban shows how far we have to go

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Growing up gay in Australia was tough. This week’s Sydney council book ban shows how far we have to go

We like to think this isn’t a homophobic country. But as a theatre adaptation of my memoir about being gay in the 90s tours, I can see an undercurrent of fear and hateGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailFourteen, the stage adaptation of my memoir of the same name, captures a moment in history and in my life that feels so far away now.It’s been 35 years since 1999, when a lonely and terrified teenage boy found himself suffocating in a repr…