The coverup of a secret gay prison is one of the most fascinating & disturbing stories of 2022

Out journalist Patrick Abboud’s investigation reveals the long-buried secrets of a facility the government doesn’t want you to know about.

Sometime in the late 1950s, Australia became home to the world’s only gay prison. The story of the prison and what went on there remained buried for decades until out journalist Patrick Abboud heard about it from a colleague in late 2017, just after Australia voted to legalize same-sex marriage.

Abboud’s three-year investigation of the story resulted in one of the most fascinating and disturbing podcasts of 2022.

The Greatest Menace: Inside the Gay Prison Experiment was released earlier this year and is streaming for free on Audible.com. The series explores how and why the prison was established, the far-reaching effects it had on Australia’s LGBTQ+ community, and the mystery surrounding what officials discovered via their “experiments” there.

Abboud says that the prison in Cooma, New South Wales, was operational by 1958 and may have housed gay prisoners as late as the 1980s. Through his reporting, he came to believe that the prison was intentionally established to…

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