https://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Donald_FriendDonald Friend - Revision history2026-05-01T09:46:23ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.3https://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Donald_Friend&diff=33764&oldid=prevJim Burton at 18:06, 1 February 20262026-02-01T18:06:17Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Friend's diaries <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were published posthumously in four volumes from 2001 to 2006 by the National Library of Australia.[8] He had kept a diary since the age of 14. It </del>chronicled in half a million words a life peopled with such artists as Drysdale, Margaret Olley, Jeffrey Smart and Brett Whiteley.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Friend's diaries chronicled in half a million words<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>a life peopled with such artists as Drysdale, Margaret Olley, Jeffrey Smart and Brett Whiteley. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The volume also contained Friend's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">open writings about his pederasty and pedophilia, depicting </del>himself <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in his journal </del>as "a middle-aged pederast who's going to seed". <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While his relationships were mostly with adolescent boys</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1960s Friend wrote in his diary of a 10-year-old boy: "[He] spent </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">night with me</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I hope life will continue forever </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">offer me delicious surprises ... and that I will always be delighted and surprised. He goes about </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">act of love with a charmingly self-possessed grace: gaily</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">affectionately, and enthusiastically. And in these matters he</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">very inventive and not at all sentimental for all the caresses." A few boys became his lifelong friends, particularly '''Attilio Guarracino''', whom he met on the Italian island of Ischia where Guarracino was born - located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Naples - when Guarracino was 19 years old</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The volume also contained Friend's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">depiction of </ins>himself as "a middle-aged pederast who's going to seed". <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As indicated above, however</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">factoids which fail to clearly cite primary source information from </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">texts themselves, been disputed by at least one historian who shows extracts from </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">relevant volume itself</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We highly recommend readers </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">examine </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">article by Edmund Marlowe linked in our footnotes</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or read Friend</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">diaries themselves</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Despite winning the Blake Prize for Religious Art in 1955, Friend made "no attempt to disguise the homoeroticism which underlay much of his work".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111008061146/http://www.savill.com.au/artist_donaldfriend.html "Donald Friend, Paintings for sale at Savill Galleries by this great Australian artist"]. Savill.com.au. 19 March 2005. [http://www.savill.com.au/artist_donaldfriend.html Archived] from the original on 8 October 2011.</ref> He was well known for studies of the young male nude<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, including nude male children</del>, as well as his wit.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Despite winning the Blake Prize for Religious Art in 1955, Friend made "no attempt to disguise the homoeroticism which underlay much of his work".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111008061146/http://www.savill.com.au/artist_donaldfriend.html "Donald Friend, Paintings for sale at Savill Galleries by this great Australian artist"]. Savill.com.au. 19 March 2005. [http://www.savill.com.au/artist_donaldfriend.html Archived] from the original on 8 October 2011.</ref> He was well known for studies of the young male nude, as well as his wit.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Pruehttps://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=Donald_Friend&diff=33757&oldid=prevPrue at 01:56, 1 February 20262026-02-01T01:56:30Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>__NOTOC__'''Donald Stuart Leslie Friend'''<ref>[https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/friend-donald/ '''Donald Stuart Leslie Friend''' - NSW Art Gallery]</ref> (6 February <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1915 </del>– <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">16 </del>August 1989) was an Australian artist and diarist <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who lived much of his life overseas</del>, in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">places such as England, Nigeria</del>, Italy, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greece</del>, Sri Lanka and Bali. Friend kept a diary since the age of 14, and was open about his [[pederasty]] and [[pedophilia]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. His </del>diaries <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">contain various accounts of </del>his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">friendships and </del>sexual <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">relationships with children and young people, some of whom became </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">remained lifelong friends with the artist</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Italian '''Attilio Guarracino''', for example</del>, was 19 when he met Donald Friend, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>remembered him positively and publicly after Friend's death by speaking to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ABC </del>Radio <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">National </del>in Australia.<ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/verbatim/attilio-guarracino-remembering-life-with-donald/3264788 "Attilio Guarracino: Remembering Life with Donald Friend in Bali"]. Radio National (audio, 25 minutes). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcast on Wed 25 Jun 2008, at 7:00pm.</ref> Friend's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">diaries were published posthumously </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">four volumes </del>from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2001 </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2006</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">National Library </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Australia</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>__NOTOC__'''Donald Stuart Leslie Friend'''<ref>[https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/friend-donald/ '''Donald Stuart Leslie Friend''' - NSW Art Gallery]</ref> (6 February <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1914 </ins>– <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">17 </ins>August 1989) was an Australian artist and diarist<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. He traveled widely</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">living for a time </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Britain</ins>, Italy, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nigeria</ins>, Sri Lanka and Bali<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Over the course of his life he produced 47 diaries, most of which were illustrated. These were published by the National Library of Australia as ''The Diaries of Donald Friend'' in four volumes between 2001 and 2006</ins>. Friend <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had </ins>kept a diary since the age of 14, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the fact that he described himself as a "pederast" and speaks of his love for "boys," has led to much discussion and debate after his death. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The confusion has been severely compounded in the media due to a documentary about Friend, caustically called A Loving </ins>Friend <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(Negara Film and Television, 2013), and made with the express hostile purpose of shaming the Australian artistic community into posthumous abandonment of Friend as a “paedophile”. Two things are alleged in support of this. First, Friend is quoted as calling himself “a sentimental pederast”, as he had indeed in a 1950 diary.<ref>''The Diaries of Donald Friend'' III, p. 70.</ref> It is conveniently omitted that he said this with reference to his affair with a youth of 18 and left to popular ignorance to conflate “pederast” with “paedophile”. Secondly, it is claimed that the boy Dolog was 10 when he began a liaison with Friend.<ref>This is the claim made in ''A Loving Friend'', but elsewhere Negara has made even wilder assertions. In an [http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lawreport/identifying-victims-of-child-sexual-assault-and/3161720 interview broadcast on 25 November 2008], she claimed that in the diaries Friend “talks about sex with children and adolescents as young as nine, 10, 12 years old in Bali.” In fact, his diaries talk of no such thing.</ref> No sources of information are cited for this much-repeated claim. The only evidence for Dolog</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">age </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the public domain is Friend’s own drawings of him shown on this webpage. The reader seeking to guess </ins>from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these whether he was 10 or around 13 should bear in mind the considerable relative physical immaturity of poor South-East Asian boys in 1967. If we add </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this that he described a boy of 12 as “of incredible dreamy beauty” and “I’d guess, very, very sexy” (16 January 1967)</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then 12-20 seems </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fairest statement </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the age range that attracted him, and his self-description as a pederast was just.''</ins></div></td></tr>
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