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Contents:
- JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
- ATRALIA HAS LONG HAD A GAY BEACH SUBCULTURE BUT THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN SAFE SPAC
- COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'
- GAY LIFE PERTH - PERTH FOM
- BUY A GAY'S LIFE
JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
Meet Jake, a young gay Atralian who grew up a ral untry town. His g out got some surprisg - and some pretty ordary reactns. Read about his experience at * gay life australia *
Bt ci Sydney The LGBTQ pal of Atralia, Sydney is one of the most welg and gay-iendly travel statns the world wh a substantial pk tourism scene, pecially durg Mardi Gras when the whole cy sparkl. Proudly ostentat, the cy boasts many gay and gay-iendly bars and clubs cludg Sly Fox on a Wednday night, Arq, Stonewall Hotel, Palms on Oxford and the Imperial Hotel.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
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In addn to Melbourne, Daylford also has a large gay muny and every March hosts Atralia’s largt untry queer ftival: ChillOut Ftival. Further north, Cairns, Noosa Heads and The Great Barrier Reef are popular travel playgrounds for the gay and lbian muny – however, you may fd regns the untrysi to be ls acceptg.
Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, Sydney, Febary – March Celebratg their 40th anniversary 2018, the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras is Atralia’s largt LGBTQ celebratn.
PriFt, Perth, October – November What began as a muny movement prottg discrimatory laws agast the gay and lbian muny has sce grown to PriFt, a ftivalthat clus Perth Pri Fairday and the Perth Pri para. Two s ago, such support would have been beyond the imaggs of all but the most wildly optimistic gay or lbian person. The pace at which social attus towards gay and lbian Atralians have evolved over the past two s has been dizzyg.
ATRALIA HAS LONG HAD A GAY BEACH SUBCULTURE BUT THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN SAFE SPAC
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Atralian Lbian and Gay Life Stori, a natnal oral history project currently unrway, seeks to explore this transformatn further. Different generatns of gay and lbian dividuals will provi sight to what has been like to live a gay or lbian life Atralia om the 1940s to the prent, when attus have shifted so remarkably. The project will terview five different generatns of “ordary” gay men and lbians providg ep sight to how dividuals negotiate social change their timate liv.
This project is the first prehensive natnwi oral history project unrtaken wh a diverse range of members of Atralia’s lbian and gay populatn. First, will bolster and diversify the Natnal Library of Atralia’s digal llectn by providg up to 300 hours of lbian and gay oral histori. More broadly, the project will vtigate how lbian and gay dividuals have navigated a perd of extraordary social change, and the impact of this transformatn on lbian and gay liv and cultural narrativ.
Rearchers on this project acknowledge the important gay and lbian oral histori that have prevly been nducted by other rearchers, cludg the ongog efforts of the Atralian Lbian and Gay Archiv Melbourne. Furthermore, the bulk of existg oral histori have foced on activists wh the gay and lbian muny, rather than “ordary” Atralians.
COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'
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Interviews for the Atralian Lbian and Gay Life Stori project are beg nducted wh participants born between 1930 and 1994 who self-intify as same-sex attracted. rponnts born before 1940, who reached sexual matury at a time when male-to-male homosexualy was illegal and was aggrsively policed.
GAY LIFE PERTH - PERTH FOM
rponnts born between 1957 and 1966, who were young when the gay liberatn movement emerged Atralia.
those born after 1985, many of whom feel they live a “post gay” era where ias about the meang of gay and lbian inty are shiftg. Atralian Lbian and Gay Life Stori is an Atralian first and will make an important addn to the Natnal Library’s llectn.
BUY A GAY'S LIFE
It will provi a rource equivalent to the Before Stonewall: A Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenred Oral History llectn, held by the Brish Library Sound Archive Collectn. It will serve to foster broar awarens of lbian and gay liv – and the ways which generatns of lbian and gay Atralians have shaped a profound transformatn of social attus Atralia.
Once I was livg away, however, I realised that wasn’t my hometown that didn’t like me beg gay; I didn’t like myself for beg gay. My sex life and my sexualy were the gossip sphere for such a small amount of time that, by the time I returned to Atralia, people had actually fotten that I’d intified as gay.
Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras – SGLMG is one of the olst and ntuoly operatg LGBTQ+ anizatns Atralia and was built on the foundatns laid by early muny activists who fought for queer rights a time of opprsn. Midsumma Ftival - this annual ftival Melbourne is one of Atralia’s leadg and long-nng LGBTQ+ events and is nsired alongsi Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras as one of the major pri celebratns the untry.