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1963…nnConstable Alison Anderson is caught in Dimmatina’s Café, St. Kilda, by the Russell Street ‘Women Police’ with a prostitute and a lesbian ‘Pimp’……..nnCanadian-born, the quick-witted lesbian had joined the Victoria Police in the late Fifties - for a time, she had been the 'Poster Girl' for Policewomen, earning several Commendations whilst at the 'Women Police' Division. Dimmatina's Cafe however, was a favourite 'watering hole' for the prostitutes of Melbourne's notorious 'Red Light' District, and was frequented by many of the lesbian and bi-sexual 'Sisterhood' within the Victoria Police.nnConstable Alison Anderson knew she was in trouble - Senior Constable Helena Carr and Constable Annie Johnston had caught her kissing the local prostitute, Margaret 'Maggie' McIntyre, in Dimmatina’s Café.......nnThere had been something of an unofficial lesbian 'Witch Hunt' within both the Russell Street 'Women Police' Division and the celebrated all-female 'Street Patrol' - Alison's former girlfriend forced to resign from the Victoria Police, whilst the 'Miss Victoria Police' had been threatened with Disciplinary Action earlier that week.........nnIt was hypocritical - offensive and demeaning.nnLesbianism was taboo - Prostitution against the Law.nnHowever, Alison wasn't doing anything that the select cadre of lesbian and bi-sexual policewomen with the 'Street Patrol' hadn't done before in Dimmatina's Cafe on Fitzroy Street, St. Kilda.nnConstable Alison Anderson had 'fucked' both Senior Constable Helena Carr and Constable Annie Johnston at Dimmatina's Cafe - there was a bed in the rear storeroom that was well known to all the exclusively all-female 'Street Patrol' from the Russell Street 'Women Police'.....nnnnFor the moment, the 'Age of Aquarius' was just a fantasy - the taste of female pheromones was heavy in the air nonetheless, as the notorious lesbian 'Pimp' tried to intercede on Alison's behalf. She had carte blanche in the 'Red Light' District from the Victoria Police. And she would not be denied..........nn nnnn* Homophobia -An Australian History (Shirleene Robinson) 2008 The Federation Pressnn* Arresting Women (Victoria Police) AW Press 1997-2017 (Colleen A. Woolley)nnnn
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