The winners of the 2023 Danger Awards have been announced at the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival. Best true crime: The Boy in the Dress (Jonathan Butler, Affirm).

The shortlist for non-fiction consists of: Whole Notes: Life Lessons Through Music by Ed Ayres; Leaping Into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears by Bernadette Brennan; The Boy in the Dress by Jonathan Butler; The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert; Astronomy: Sky Country by Karlie Noon and Krystal De Napoli; and Childless: A Story of Freedom and Longing by Sian Prior.

LGBTIQ+ writer Jonathan Butler chats about his life, coming out and his debut book ‘The Boy In The Dress’

Queer Writes Sessions (QWS) Podcast in partnership with Blarney Books & Art, Port Fairy. A Words and Nerds Podcast spin-off series hosted by Rob aka R.W.R. McDonald and Jonathan Butler.

Each month QWS Podcast will interview an LGBTIQA+ writer, review and shout out books and authors from our rainbow communities.

Interview with David Astle on his Evening show from 35:50.

In The Boy in the Dress, a combination of memoir, true crime, and deeply researched history, Jonathan Butler describes the broader ramifications when homosexual lives are understood as inherently tragic.

Podcast Episode 11: The Boy in the Dress

This episode is a recording of the Melbourne Writers Festival event at the Victorian Archives Centre from 2022 with Jonathan Butler in conversation with Dr Yves Rees.

Queer Writes Session (QWS) Podcast, a Words & Nerds spin off series hosted by Rob aka R.W.R. McDonald, in partnership with Blarney Books & Art in Port Fairy.

In this episode guest interviewer, Jonathan Butler, chats with author Ronnie Scott, about what makes a novel Queer, his writing process and choices in his latest book, Shirley, as well as a great discussion on writing. And cats!

Interview with Philip Clark commences at 1:18:00

Recorded live at Blarney Books & Art in Port Fairy as part of the Port Fairy Literary Weekend. In this episode Rob talks to Jonathan Butler, author of The Boy in the Dress about investigating a family true crime cold case, queer history, memoir and more!

Jonathan Butler is a queer writer and content producer living in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

In 1944, soldier Warwick Meale was bashed so viciously with a hammer he never regained consciousness. An account of his murder reveals an aspect of war we seldom hear.

Rainbow History Class is a home for queer and trans stories from history that inspire, validate, bring gratitude, make you laugh with over 400k followers on TikTok. Jonathan recorded a substitute teacher video about queer servicemen for an Anzac Day special.

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Jonathan spoke to Helen Shield on the Your Afternoon show about The Boy in the Dress, why Warwick meant so much to him, and the challenges of queer history.

Finding gay panic in writing | When author Jonathan Butler started researching his ancestor’s sexuality, he soon encountered the thorny business of outing the dead.

Interview on 3RRR. Listen back our latest 3RRR Radio podcast with writer Jonathan Butler, Switchboard CEO Joe Ball and independent producer Bo Bickmore talking all things queer and trans in politics and culture.

On the evening of 15 August 1944, beside a creek in northern Queensland, a figure strode up to a young, sleeping soldier and swung a blacksmith’s hammer three times into his skull.

Aussie Digger’s senseless murder on home soil. In 1944, a soldier was bashed to death in Townsville after returning from New Guinea. A new book uncovers what happened.

Word for Word is JOY 94.9 interview show with host Lisa Dano Daniel. Today’s guest is Jonathan Butler. Jonathan was born in Sydney, spent his formative years in Launceston Tasmania and then moved to Melbourne to attend university when he was 18.

Uncovering little-known chapter of Australian military history. It was Townsville in 1944, and the body of 20 year old serviceman Warwick Meale is found near a local river. He'd been severely beaten. Despite the efforts of local police, the killer was never found. But almost 80 years on, Warwick's descendant Jonathan Butler has chased the leads that were there all along, in his book called 'The Boy in the Dress'.

From alleyway gangsters to cold war spies to eccentric entrepreneurs, Australian history is full of colourful but forgotten characters. Host Jen Kelly talks with experts, historians and yarn spinners to uncover the untold stories of some of our most interesting and offbeat ancestors. Produced by Jonty Burton and Andrea Thiis-Evensen.

Podcast: Jonathan Butler on the Unsolved Murder of Warwick Meale. Jonathan Butler talks to Cheryl about the unsolved murder of his ancestor Warwick Meale in 1944. In his new book, The Boy in the Dress, Butler dusts off the case and chases the leads that were there all along.

Visiting Mum in the nursing home can easily become a box-ticking exercise but I’ve challenged myself to make visits better for both of us.

Butler’s deeply moving and gripping family memoir is a testament to his thorough research and dedication to uncovering the truth about his grandmother’s cousin, Warwick, a serviceman who was tragically murdered in Townsville in 1944.

Jonathan Butler on The Family History That Inspired The Boy in the Dress.