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Queer archival films

Title image from 1920s cinema advertisement for women's underwear, Beautiful Lines of Women Triumphant

YouTube user Kurvapicsa has uploaded a collection of archival Australian films with lesbian and gay references or content that appealed to queer sensibilities.

Highlights include the first Australian female-to-male cross dresser on film (1913), excerpts from early Australian television (among them Bert Newton advertising ‘Gay-Life’ shirts), and a gallery of underwear advertisements, starting with ‘Beautiful Lines of Woman Triumphant’ in the 1920s. […]

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Remember Val’s?

Old photo of entrance to Val's Coffee Lounge, Swanston Street, Melbourne

Author Barb Angell is writing a book about Val Eastwood (of Val’s Coffee Lounge fame) and would especially like to hear from people who have first hand recollections to share of Val or Val’s Swanston Street venue, or the flat above the Tivoli where Val lived. If you would like to contribute, please email Barb at biz@angellpro.com.au to receive a list of questions available as a guideline. First names only will be used unless people […]

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Gay and lesbian media history

Cartoon of man cutting arrow off gender symbol on cover of first issue of Camp Ink

Former editor and publisher, Bill Calder, has launched a website for people interested in his Gay and Lesbian Media History Project at gaymediahistory.wordpress.com. The website includes a newsletter, a copy of a thesis that Bill has completed as the first stage of the project (The origins of gay and lesbian media in Australia 1969-1978) and opportunities for people to provide information as Bill proceeds to the next phase of the project, a PhD […]

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After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation

altman conference poster

An International Conference

2-4 February 2012
Melbourne, Australia

Hosted by the Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Program at La Trobe University

In conjunction with the Australian Lesbian & Gay Archives, Midsumma and Victoria University

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Jeffrey Weeks, London Southbank University

Additional speakers to be confirmed

Forty years ago, a young Australian expat living in the USA synthesised the politics of the emerging gay liberation movement in a provocative book called Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation. […]

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Thanks to VicBears

Vic Bears presenting giant cheque to the Archives

ALGA was fortunate to be nominated as Charity Partner for VicBears’ fundraising from Southern Hibearnation 2011. At a presentation at the Laird Hotel on Saturday 23 July, outgoing VicBears’ president, Rick Cooper (left in photograph), presented ALGA’s Mark Pendleton with a cheque for $10,000. We were a little overwhelmed by the size of the donation, which enables us to bring forward plans to replace ALGA’s ageing photocopier. A huge thank you to all at VicBears […]

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