Aspects of Gay and Lbian Life Seventi Melbourne - No 87 May 2011 - La Trobe Journal

Contents:

• THE ATRALIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV (ALGA)
• THE ATRALIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV
• MICHAEL HURLEYASPECTS OF GAY AND LBIAN LIFE SEVENTI MELBOURNE
• THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE
• GAY AND LBIAN ARCHIV
• GAY/LBIAN ACTIVISM

THE ATRALIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV (ALGA)

Tap datg back to mid 1950s, rad broadsts, nferenc, speech at public meetgs and monstratns, terviews on all typ of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr issu … if has been said and rerd, there is a chance we might have .

Number 96, televisn seri (Atralia, 1972-1977) – Atralia’s first supersoap, and the first to feature a gay character; we hold 5 episos as a sample of the seri. For example, the papers of Ken Sclair (1927-2005) clu over 300 articl arisg om his work, as prit and rearcher, on the Catholic Church and homosexualy, on pastoral re by the Catholic Church for people wh HIV/AIDS, and on HIV/AIDS general. The papers of Ian Goller (1943-1993) clu about 250 articl relatg to his work as a rearcher and tor the muny rponse to HIV/AIDS Atralia, through the Victorian AIDS Actn Commtee (later Victorian AIDS Council / Gay Men’s Health Center) and the Victorian Health Department.

THE ATRALIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV

Highlights clu the rerds of Society Five (Melbourne’s first gay rights anisatn), the Natnal Homosexual Conferenc of the 1970s and 1980s, and the Homosexual Law Reform Coaln (1975-80).

Our lbian and gay guis and directori (listg, pdf) chart the growth and diversy of Atralian GLBTI muny groups, bs and travel om the 1970s to the prent day.

MICHAEL HURLEYASPECTS OF GAY AND LBIAN LIFE SEVENTI MELBOURNE

This new publitn om the Atralian Lbian and Gay Archiv is an eye-openg and immensely readable troductn to Melbourne’s queer scen, both private and public. If you would like to read more about Victoria’s queer histori, try Queen Cy of the South: gay and lbian Melbourne, a special issue of the Library’s La Trobe Journal which n be read onle, or the book Livg out loud: a history of gay and lbian activism Atralia. Forbidn love, bold passns: an exhibn of lbian stori 1900s to 1990s (1996), a tourg exhibn curated by History Inverted and the Atralian Lbian and Gay Archiv.

Gay tim are here aga (2013), State Library of South Atralia, celebratg the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Alai Gay Pri Week, veloped wh the State Library of South Atralia and the South Atralian Gay and Lbian Archiv. From the earlit days, men who loved men, and women who loved women – sodom and spsters, mps and gays and lbians, queers of all kds – have ma the cy their own, givg a vibrant history.

THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE

”(2) Lot's Wife broadsheet, published by Monash Uni, supplement 2nd Augt 1976; article tled ‘Manifto of the Socialist Homosexuals’ pos the qutn, how do homosexualy relate to sexism?

There are many gay lobby groups at this time; for example, Gay Tra Unn Group, Gay Task Force, Gay Solidary Group, UNSW Gay Soc, NSW Teacher and Stunt Group and so on.

GAY AND LBIAN ARCHIV

There is discsn about the role and purpose of CAMP as a lobby group and the need to avoid alienatg good public opn believed to be achieved by the gay liberatn movement. In Alai there was a Gay Liberatn book service, Doctor Dunstan Revolutn Bookshop (140 Kg William Rd Hy Park 5061) 3 March 1979, reports that Queensland, Greg Weir is fightg for the right to teach.

GAY/LBIAN ACTIVISM

The (then) Victorian Premier Dick Hamer (Liberal Party 1972-1981) sis wh anti-gay reactnary muny groups phg to ban the book and shore up the Catholic vote. Reactnary lobby groups, such as the Commtee to Raise Edutnal Standards, petn the Mister to ban the book and ph for gay teachers to be Newsletter No. Amics, says that the law is nsistent - femal are outsi crimalisatn on the basis of sexualy and gays are easy victims of theft, vlence, and blackmail.