ABSTRACT One night in 1865, some men at Melbourne’s Theatre Royal created a disturbance by noisily paying court to married women in the dress circle. A journalist present that night subsequently attacked these “men-poodles” in print. This article examines the models of masculinity that lay behind the different actions and responses of the participants that evening—the normative, domesticated masculinity espoused by the journalist, and dissident models, such as the cavalier-servant, which may have inspired the men-poodles. The article proposes that the incident offers a rare glimpse of queer men creating and exercising a sociability beyond the criminal paradigm that dominates accounts of homosexuality in the colonial era.

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着装圈中的男士贵宾犬：墨尔本殖民地的男性气质竞争

摘要 1865 年的一个晚上，墨尔本皇家剧院的一些男人大声地向着装圈中的已婚妇女求婚，从而制造了一场骚乱。当晚在场的一名记者随后袭击了这些印刷品的“男性贵宾犬”。本文考察了当晚参与者的不同行为和反应背后的男性气质模型——记者所拥护的规范的、驯化的男性气质，以及持不同政见的模型，例如骑士仆人，它们可能启发了男性贵宾犬. 这篇文章提出，这一事件提供了一个罕见的一瞥，即酷儿创造和行使社交能力，超越了殖民时代主导同性恋行为的犯罪范式。