Schliemann, Gary

 

Gary Schliemann (1947-)

Gary went to university in the mid-60s and studied Psychology. He went to many of the early venues and got involved in Sydney Gay Liberation and has memories of the people and the struggles of the early 70s. After short time in East London squats, he returned to Sydney and was involved organising the 4th National Homosexual Conference, the first Mardi Gras and the Gay Liberation Quire. In the early 80s he was briefly involved with the Radical Faeries in California and when he got back to Sydney helped form the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. He moved to the north coast of NSW and in 1981 assisted in the promotion of a network of gay communities based on Radical Faeries principles. Later in Sydney he joined Community Activist Technology and set up a web site, Active Sydney a pioneering open publishing and activist communication website.

 

Oral history recordings

 

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SPride History GroupRobin Winkler, Tap Room Carlton Rex, the Pet Shop, Bottoms Up Bar, Moratorium, Neil Hutchinson, Aquarius dances, Sydney Gay Liberation, Australia Street, Terry Rolfe, Terry Bell, Gay Pride Week, Dennis Freeney, 33a Glebe Point Road, Craig Johnston, Radical Effeminism, Neil McConaghy, Fabian LoSchiavo, John Lee, Diane Minnis, Dennis Altman, Paul Foss, Brian McGahen, CAMP, David McDiarmid, Jim Wafer, Men Opposing Patriarchy, Jeff Hayler, 4th National Homosexual Conference, Frank Walker, Mardi Gras, Lance Gowland, Gay Liberation Quire, Radical Faeries, Gaywaves Collective, Peter Mitchell, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, ACON, Ian Gray