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Voices from 1978
Available for purchase from our friends at First Mardi Gras 78ers, this booklet describes the events of 1978, told in the words of those who were there.
In June 1978, young gays and lesbians and their supporters were confronted by police in the streets of Sydney. Their lives were changed forever, and the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was born.
This is the story of 1978, told in the voices of those who were there - the Voices from 1978.
SYDNEY & AUSTRALIAN LGBTIQ HISTORIES
Check out these LGBTIQ history books for sale at select retailers or on loan at university libraries and State and local libraries.
BOOKSHOPS & OTHER QUEER HISTORY GROUPS
The Australian Queer Archives (AQuA), based in Melbourne, is the biggest repository of historical materials about LGBTIQ experience in Australia. The Archives was established in 1978 as a volunteer, community-based organisation. We love them!
The Bookshop Darlinghurst has been the most comprehensive source of books, magazines, calendars and DVDs for Sydney and Australia's LGBTI communities. Located at 207 Oxford Street, the bookshop has been a much loved space for the local and international LGBTIQ people.
The Hunter Rainbow History Group was formed to record and collect the stories and experiences of LGBTIQ people in Newcastle and the Hunter, to preserve and illuminate the hidden histories of this vital and resilient community.
Hunter Rainbow History Group hopes to work with local history and LGBTIQ networks in the Hunter and is always seeking new volunteers and voices from the community to help with interviewing, logging, archiving, cataloguing, researching and organising. There Living Histories page shares oral histories and is hosted by the University of Newcastle.
The Northern Rivers / Tropical Fruits Queer History Project was formed to record, collect and archive the stories and experiences of LGBTIQ people in the Northern Rivers Region of NSW (Grafton to Tweed), to preserve and illuminate the hidden histories of this vital and resilient regional community.
The group continues to work with local history and LGBTIQ networks in the Northern Rivers and is always seeking new volunteers and voices from the community to help with interviewing, logging, archiving, cataloguing, researching and organising.
The group has collaborated with Tweed Regional Museum to launch an online exhibition: Small Town Queer
An exhibition on the role of volunteers in Sydney during the HIV and AIDs epidemic during the 1980s and 90s is available online. They project captured oral and digital histories and curated archival material much of which is now accessible through the online exhibition website entitled ‘A City Responds to Crisis’.
Queer Reading Group Sydney meets on the third Thursday of the month at Better Read Than Dead in Newtown. The group will focus on short texts—covering everything from radical pamphlets and zines to articles and essays, which will almost always be available free online.
55Upitty is a collaborative interview and photography that aims to challenge people’s ideas about older LGBTI women; it’s about our feisty over-55 upitty women.
Sydney's Emerging Drag Scene in the '60s
While Sydney’s fairies and perverts had found refuge in the corners of certain bohemian coffee shops, toffs’ bars and sailor’s pubs for decades, the first venues to target Sydney’s camp men and women emerged in the 1960s.
This booklet unpacks the histories of such legendary venues as ‘The Jewel Box’, ‘Kandy’s Garden Of Eden’, ‘The Purple Onion’, ‘Chez Ivy’s’ and ‘Ivy’s Birdcage’.
Drawing on interviews and rare photographs, it looks at their artistes, entrepreneurs and trashy-chic decor.
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