Frontline Response: Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Stalking Behaviours.

COVID-19 pandemic lockdown changed the way in which we engage with others and our ability to enjoy free movement away from the confinement of our own homes. Whilst this dramatic change affected everyone, it constituted something much more threatening for victims of stalking, repeatedly targeted by those with an obsessive and fixated behaviour. Whilst we know more about the impact of lockdown stalking behaviour, very little is known about how the police and frontline workers are responding to this challenge.

Fish in a Barrel: Police Targeting of Brisbane's Ephemeral Gay Spaces in the Pre-Decriminalization Era.

Across history, and particularly in periods of criminalization, the gay community have often been forced to resort to public spaces-"beats"-to clandestinely seek out anonymized sex with partners who share their sexual preference. This article reframes the construction of gay beats as ephemeral spaces that prevails in existing sexuality literature. Instead, it shows that Brisbane's beats were semi-permanent spaces with subcultural meaning to the local gay community-a fact that was used by police to target gay men during law enforcement's attempts to reestablish a moral order in the postwar era.