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Contents:

• DAVID ALLEN, FOUNR OF MEN ON MEN GAY ART PRIZE, AWARD QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOUR
• GAY MELBOURNE
• GAY ARTIST DAVID ALLEN IS ON THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST
• THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE

DAVID ALLEN, FOUNR OF MEN ON MEN GAY ART PRIZE, AWARD QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOUR

(Supplied: 1770 Art Show and Competn)The lnch of Men on MenIn 2001, Mr Allen and his partner Ron Watks found a gay art prize tled Men on Men Art Exhibn and Competn when they were nng The Laird Hotel Collgwood, pub is one of the longt nng gay-owned and operated venu Atralia and many of Mr Allen's regulars at the time were volved the arts, but unable to fd spac to display their work. (Instagram: The Laird, Melbourne)"Back the early 2000s, was very difficult to get to art galleri at any rate, let alone if you were g om a gay perspective, " Mr Allen said.

"We had a lot of gay ctomers who were artists and they were really stgglg to fd plac where they uld exhib their artworks, so we created one. " Men on Men Art Show and Competn provis a space for gay artists at The Laird, Melbourne.

GAY MELBOURNE

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!

They look like relatively simple flat patgs, but the procs mak them very plited to driv you to document LGBTQ spac, as you did your project The UK Gay Bar Directory?

GAY ARTIST DAVID ALLEN IS ON THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST

We started filmg gay bars wh a GoPro mera 2014, wh no particular oute md. Before we knew Candy Bar, the Gee and Dragon, and Joers Arms—all by, succsful, and culturally important gay bars London—had shut their doors followed by a spate of other closur natnally.

K., forcg ourselv to male-domant or male-only spac, filmg gay bars, and creatg an archive that would functn both as an art work, a public rource, and a ll to arms. Often, we would arrive a cy and a much-loved gay bar had closed s doors only days before.

We explore how the ntemporary gay rights movement has aligned self wh the state, the police, the ary, and wh property velopers at the expense of s own muny.

THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE

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Here are Melbourne’s top five gay snas and cise loung –.. “Gay and lbian inty (and, by extensn, queer inty) is predited on the ia that, as sexuali, they are visible, bee sexualy is not a visible inty the ways that race or sex are visible.

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