BUSHRANGER Collection

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Bushrangers are one of the icons of Australian identity, and it's no surprise that if you look carefully, you'll find LGBTIQA+ people in their ranks. 

From those assigned female at birth who who bucked the expectations of their gender to ride horses, to commit armed robbery, to escape pursuit and, in some cases, be caught and imprisoned, to those assigned male at birth who were sometimes or regularly observed to be wearing feminine attire.

Here you'll find folk like the cross dressing Kitty Morgan, who the papers named "one of the most notorious and wicked females that ever lived" and the 16 year old cattle rustler and bushranger Miss Walsh and Kelly Gang member Steve Hart, who was well known for wearing dresses, here you'll find bushrangers all colours of the LGBTIQA+ rainbow. 

Arguably, the most famous LGBTIQA+ bushranger was Captain Moonlite who went to the gallows wearing a ring of his lover James Nesbitt's hair. Because he was famous in his lifetime, there were many articles about him and Nesbitt in the papers, so we have collected the Captain Moonlite story here. 

Image is teenage American cattle rustlers, Cattle Annie and Little Britches: https://www.havefunwithhistory.com/famous-cowgirls/