About us
We are a not for profit community history group which collects information about Sydney's gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer past. Membership application form
Monthly Meeting
Members and visitors are invited to the next meeting, Monday 20th February 2012, 6:30pm at St Helens Community Centre, 184 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 2037 (the yellow meeting space, next to Benledi)
Please note our new meeting times and place. St Helens is an easy access venue.
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Any 78'er & your guests are invited to join the 78'ers bus in the Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday evening 3rd March 2012.
When to meet: You may need to be at the Parade site in the late afternoon, details will be known soon, however there is access to toilets nearby and light refreshments available on the double decker bus where you can relax before the Parade heads off and enjoy some of the floats before the Parade starts.
Cost: A small donation towards refreshments would be appreciated if you can assist in this way. The bus is being sponsored by Sydney Bus Museum and Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Purpose: It is not a special anniversary for 78'ers so we are simply there as a float to show support to the cause. Our theme will be ; 'end all inequality' 'stop bullying & homophobia'
Regtister interest: As we need to know names for the passes, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone 0417393877 and let us know if you wish to participate. Cheers,Steve 78'er Co-ordinator
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Bear Essentials 16 "Club History" Book Launch Public Event · By Harbour City Bears |
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Garry Wotherspoon has written a book about the history of the Harbour City Bears - "Hairy, Chunky and Gay: a history of the Harbour City Bears", which is to be launched...
We venture to new turf, the plush Polo Lounge, but expect surprise guests, old faces and fun stories from the history of our great club.
FREE event, sponsored by the Star Observer, with copies of the book on sale.
Book launch from 6.30pm The Polo Lounge, the Oxford Hotel, Taylor Square, Darlinghurst NSW 2010. (Nearest station – King's Cross or Museum then walk to Oxford St)
This is an official Bear Essentials 16 event - part of the Sydney Mardi Gras
This is an official Bear Essentials 16 event – part of the Sydney Mardi GrasThis is an official Bear Essentials 16 event - part of the Sydney Mardi Gras.
When: Monday, February 13, 2012
Time: 6:30pm until 9:30pm
Where: Polo Lounge, Oxford Hotel (Top Floor), Taylor Square, Darlinghurst.
Coming to Sydney for several Mardi Gras events is Jeffrey Weeks, the distinguished British historian and sociologist. Professor Weeks is the author of several books relating to sexuality and politics, including Sexuality and its Discontents; Sex, Politics and Society; and Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. He is among the academics in the early period of gay men's studies in Britain who emerged from the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) which he joich he was a founding member.
Professor Weeks has been attending the AFTER HOMOSEXUAL conference in Melbourne, and he is now in Sydney, and will be appearing at a Pride History Group event.
On Saturday 18 February, at 3.30pm, Jeffrey Weeks speaks about 'The World We Have Won', the theme of one of his latest books. This is part of a special Queer Thinking afternoon at the Riverside Theatre in Parramatta, which includes a debate on hot topics relating to the LGBTQI communities, including youth and identity, gay life in Western Sydney, law reform and its relevance.
Details of the afternoon’s program are at http://www.riversideparramatta.com.au/performance.asp?pID=1825
For more information contact:
Lex Watson, President of the Pride History Group, at 0437 303 139
Robert French, Secretary of the Pride History Group, at 9568 1995
100 voices
Pride History is creating an accessible archive of its oral history interviews. Our target is 100 interviews in 2011.
We're looking for oral history interviewers (training available) and people who can help prepare the 100 interviews for public access - cataloguing, logging/transcribing etc. You can contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Link to the catalogue for the IDAHO exhibition including a page about the "100 voices project"
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/pinestreet/
Gay Media History: new history web site launched
A history of gay publishing in Australia prior to 1978 - activist, gay male porn and community papers has been created on a new web site http://gaymediahistory.wordpress.com/
AuAudio Link to Into the Streets: 10th Australian Homosexual Histories Conference Papers
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/handle/2100/783
