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Sce Jason Dann and Jon Fabian started the Lost Gay Sydney Facebook group page, 1000s of Sydney's LGBT fay have jumped onle to share their memori of Sydney's Queer scene the 70s, 80s, 90s and noughti.

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The 2018 Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras was an important event for many queer people Atralia, celebratg both forty years of Mardi Gras as well as the legalisatn of same sex-same marriage December of 2017. This signifince was * sydney queer history *

In some ways has remd me of the 1970s moral panic that occurred after the publitn of Young, Gay and Proud (wrten by the Melbourne-based Gay Teachers and Stunts Group).

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

Steve Bull once raced agast time to try to save the memoirs of one of Mae's gay rights pneers. His trip led him down memory lane. * sydney queer history *

Sce the 1970s Atralia has, for the first time, weled a generatn of young people growg up after Gay Liberatn. So much has changed so quickly: crimalisatn, creased public visibily of queer people, chang to the regnn of genr inty and tersex stat, the expungg of historil homosexual nvictns, and more.

There have been lbian and gay film ftivals Sydney sce 1978.

In 1986, the AFI partnered wh what was then the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, to prent an annual ‘Sydney Gay Film Week’. In 1993, a group of queer Sydney filmmakers, stunts, and supporters approached Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras to tablish an pennt anisatn whose foc would be queer film and screen culture. A new book, CAMP: Atralia’s pneer homosexual rights activists by 78ers Robyn Kennedy and Robyn Plaister, brgs to life the val role of CAMP activists.

LOST GAY SYDNEY GROUP SHAR MEMORI OF EARLY QUEER SCENE

In the book, CAMP members om across Atralia talk about their experienc and the life-changg support CAMP offered at a time when lbians and gay men were spised by much of society. The events of the first Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para on 24 June 1978 are central to the history of the Atralian Pri movement. Secrets, li, lghter, and surprise were all part of livg gay 1970s NSW.

The pub’s lotn, oppose Taylor Square, is also where followg the ci first Mardi Gras Para on June 24, 1978 gay men, lbians their polil alli marched the streets enuragg more visibily by chantg “out of the bars and to the streets! The Gay and Lbian Holot Memorial, missned remembrance of victims of opprsn, is also dited to prent-day gay and lbian victims of vlence. ”They hope the walks will help people see that homosexualy and transgenr inti are herent to Indian culture.

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(PDF) Unlearng Whe Settler Queer Imagari; Lotg the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras as a se of homonatnalism Atralia | Molly Johnston .

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