Posts about Melbourne Gay Pri 1973 wrten by Dr Marc Bunyan
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OUT OF THE CLOSETS: STORY OF MELBOURNE’S GAY LIBERATN NOW ONLE
Gay and lbian Melbourne clubs, bars, events, listgs and rmatn. Your plete gui to LGBT life Melbourne. * melbourne gay exhibition *
Ponch Hawk, No tle (Two women embracg, 'Glad to be gay') 1973; prted 2018 gelat silver photograph, Natnal Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
What began as a rearch project by curators followg the ntroversial natnal plebisce on gay marriage 2017 has sparked an stutn-wi reappraisal of s llectns.
Lucda Horrocks shar oral histori of the Gay Liberatn Movement 1970s Melbourne a Culture Victoria exhibn. * melbourne gay exhibition *
A broad sweep of history is reflected objects om Ancient Greece to f--siècle dandyism and emergg 20th-century queer activism such as Gilbert Baker’s rabow flag (first flown durg San Francis’s 1978 Gay Freedom Day Para) and inic stum by Melbourne-born artist Leigh Bowery. Hannah Brontë’s work Umma’s Tongue – molten at 6000° is spired, acrdg to the artist, by ‘the magic of ftivals, sweaty gay dance floors and chosen fai… I want to honour all the powerful LGBTQIA+ humans who me before me and fought hard to revolutnise the reprentatn of what looks like to be ’.
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‘Beg part of this is for my people, my muny, my BIG gay ass fay! Ponch Hawk’s 1973 photograph, No tle (Two women embracg, ‘Glad to be gay’), which picts a uple proudly and urageoly celebratg their love durg the Gay Liberatn Movement Melbourne;. Albrecht Dürer, St Sebastian at the tree, 1501, which picts the early Christian martyr who sce the Renaissance has been often portrayed as a betiful young man, givg rise to homoerotic terpretatns of his story.