Hello and welcome to Queerous Fact. My name is Eli.

Hi, I'm Irene. I'm Hamish.

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It'll just cover what kind of things we're going to talk about and what we're about generally,

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Every fortnight, one of us will talk about a queer history topic from around the world and throughout time.

This week we're going to talk about the Australian Bush Ranger Captain Moonlight.

I'll give a few content warnings for this episode, which we'll do before all of our episodes.

We'll be discussing executions, police brutality and gun violence, and the episode

also contains a couple of suicide mentions and one homophobic slur. If any of that sounds like

something that you'd rather not listen to, please feel free to skip this episode. We've plenty

of other content coming out soon, and there'll be a lot of variety and tone and content. So Captain

Moonlight's real name was Andrew George Scott, but he generally goes by George.

He was born on the 8th of January, 1845, in a small town of Northern Ireland.

So he immigrated with his family in 1862 to New Zealand, and he came to Australia in June of 1868

looking for work, and he got a job as an amateur lay reader for a church. They were this huge

force of men that the Church of England was employing because they were really understaffed at the time

because the population was booming and so they just performed basic services like preaching and

doing funerals and things like that. So he got a job as a lay reader and was sent to Bacchus Marsh

and then was then moved to Mount Egerton, which was a mining town in rural Victoria. So he got a job as a lay reader and was sent to Bacchus Marsh and then was then moved to

Mount Egerton, which was a mining town in rural Victoria. So George Scott arrived in Mount

Egerton at the end of March and he quickly struck up a friendship with Julius Brun, who was a

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