Out Here: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives VI

Description

From homosexual law reform to drag kings; from HIV/AIDS to lesbian artists; from old age to movie-going ...gay and lesbian life in Australia has always been a vibrant canvas. In this collection, the sixth in the Gay and Lesbian Perspectives series, established and newly emerging Australian historians cast an eye over the past hundred years or so. Drawing on sources a diverse as government records, police and court documents, archives and memoirs and oral histories from across the nation, they have unearthed stories that will surprise and delight and inform. These are histories that are not taught at school but should be!

Graham Willett is a historian of Australias gay and lesbian past. He is the author of Living Out Loud, a history of the movement, and co-editor and a major contributor to Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne. He is a long-time committee member of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. He has recently retired from the University of Melbourne (Australia). Yorick Smaal is a historian and ARC DECRA Research Fellow at Griffith University. His areas of research focus on sex and gender, war and society, and law and criminal justice.

A wide-ranging set of original essays that makes an important contribution to gay and lesbian scholarship and Australian history in general. -- Robert Aldrich