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• OUT OF THE CLOSETS: STORY OF MELBOURNE’S GAY LIBERATN NOW ONLE

OUT OF THE CLOSETS: STORY OF MELBOURNE’S GAY LIBERATN NOW ONLE

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.

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 ’.

‘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.

The bt gay bars MelbourneYou would thk what wh the fanfare surroundg Sydney's annual Mardi Gras ftival that the harbour cy was the clear rglear of Atralia's gay scene,..

Here are Melbourne’s top five gay snas and cise loung –.. Lucda Horrocks shar oral histori of the Gay Liberatn Movement  1970s Melbourne the Culture Victoria exhibn, Out of the Closets, Into the Streets.

In 1970s’ Melbourne a group of stunts ma a stand for gay pri at a time when homosexualy was crimalised and discrimatn and abe was wispread.