"QUEEN CITY OF THE SOUTH"
Melbourne Queer History Radio Series
This webpage brings you a series of recordings, broadcast on radio in Australia, taking you on a historical tour of gay & lesbian Melbourne. The tour is led by the Australian Lesbian & Gay Archives, who weave their way through the streets of Melbourne, recounting tales of our gay and lesbian forebears. |
The series, produced by Barry McKay, was first broadcast on JOY
FM, Melbourne. The series was put together with information from the
Australian Lesbian & Gay Archives, Melbourne. CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW FOR PROGRAMME CONTENTS AND TO LISTEN TO THE SERIES | ||||||||||||||||
THE EPISODES | |||||||||||||||||
All audio files are in Real Audio format. To download Real Player click here
EDWARD De LACY EVANS a 19th century female to male cross dresser DJ ROSS & HARRIET ELPHINSTONE DICK "two invisible lesbians", 19th century GORDON LAWRENCE & JOHN WILSON 19th century Melbourne transvestites LETTER TO POLICE 1901 regarding various beats in the Melbourne city area MARION BILL
EDWARDS female to male cross dresser, early 20th century FROM SIN TO SICKNESS the medicalisation of homosexuality COFFEE SHOPS IN THE 1930s haunts for gays & lesbians NAMES FOR MELBOURNE BEATS a short history Dr ROBERT VIVIAN STORER a little known 1930s Australian sexologist PERCY HAYNES a 1930s cross dresser WORLD WAR TWO life for gay men during the war ASIO IN THE 1950s and some file notes on homosexuals VAL's COFFEE SHOP a popular lesbian & gay haunt on the early 1950s ZASU PITTS the Melbourne drag queen and the body in the Yarra - 1950 PUBLIC PLACES in the 1950s, and police entrapment of homosexuals THE BOILERS gay social group begun in the 1950s MYERS and the flamboyant Freddy Asmussen in the 1950s & 60s MELBOURNE UNI DEBATE on homosexual law reform in 1964 THE SEAHORSE CLUB support group for transgendered, which began in the 1970s RADICALESBIANS a women's liberation group begun in 1973 BLACKROCK BEACH BEAT police surveillance and the push for homosexual law reform 1977 HOMOSEXUAL LAW REFORM IN VICTORIA achieved in 1980 MONTE PUNSHON
the "world's oldest lesbian" | |||||||||||||||||
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image: Flinders St, Melbourne, about 1920
source: National Australian Archives