“We didn’t know what was coming”: AIDS in Australia
On the evening of December 1, 1988, the first ever World AIDS Day, hundreds of people packed into the Martin Place amphitheatre in Sydney for …
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December 1, 2019 “We didn’t know what was coming”: AIDS in Australia
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November 12, 2019 Uncovering trans and gender-diverse lives in the archives
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April 9, 2019 Demolition of Monroe’s to make way for Victorian Pride Centre construction
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February 25, 2019 New LGBTI community TV program ‘QTV’ coming to Melbourne and Geelong
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November 27, 2018 Liberal MP Kelly O’Dwyer says Liberals are now viewed as “homophobic”
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Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives to change name
After a year-long consultation process, the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives has announced that they will be changing the name of the organisation. The archives, which collects …
Uncovering trans and gender-diverse lives in the archives
As part of Noah Riseman’s Australian Research Council project, ‘Transgender Australians: The History of an Identity’, GERALDINE FELA has been going through the Australian Lesbian and …
Demolition of Monroe’s to make way for Victorian Pride Centre construction
“Trans and gender diverse people have a long connection to this location as various TGD groups would hold formal committee meetings and casual gatherings at Monroe’s”
New LGBTI community TV program ‘QTV’ coming to Melbourne and Geelong
QTV will cover news and currents affairs, airing at 9:30pm on C31 every Friday night for the next 13 weeks, starting March 1.
Liberal MP Kelly O’Dwyer says Liberals are now viewed as “homophobic”
O’Dwyer added that “it’s not who we are as Liberals”.
Why is bisexual acceptance in the LGBTI community so hard to find?
“The doors to this colourful new world slammed shut, me on one side and [our rainbow community] on the other.”
Tasmanian hopes to preserve the state’s colourful queer history before it’s “lost forever”
“As a consequence of the remoteness of the various settlements here, there was a wide underground gay life, with informal social groups and venues.”
Government provides funding for Australia’s lesbian and gay archives
The grant will allow the Archives to digitise the outtakes from a classic documentary about the lead up to Sydney’s first Mardi Gras.
Victoria’s first LGBTI History Month launched
The organisers behind the initiative hope it will eventually grow to become Australia’s official LGBTI History Month.