#Australian queer history

[userdocumentary]

QUEERSTRALIA (2022) Episode 1 dir. Stamatia Maroupas

[asynca]

Anyone who’s interested in ‘Australia’s Stonewall Moment’ will be interested in reading about the ‘78ers: the first marchers in what they coined the ‘Mardi Gras’ which turned violent after police blocked them off and began to violently arrest people. 

Tonight, 45 years later, Sydney hosts World Pride 2023 and the 45th Mardi Gras parade and it’s a huge celebrated event. 

We’ve got a long way to go - but we also need to celebrate our tenacity, our survival and how far we’ve come. 

[queerasfact]

Queer as Fact is back tomorrow with an episode on an entire queer country, the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands - get excited!

[Image: A sign on a beach which reads “Welcome to Heaven, Cato Island Post Code 0000, Capital of the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom, www.gayandlesbiankingdom.com” draped with a rainbow flag, next to a post box labelled “Royal Gay Mail”]

[cridhe]

ive been looking for some australian qu33r history resources because by knowledge is pretty scarce, limited to only what was covered in my gender history course i did a few years ago. a lot of resources are about sydney but as i currently live in melbourne ive been looking for stuff relevant down here too. anyway ive found this amazing free resource on the australian lesbian and gay archives website! its a free pdf of over 200 pages detailing significant aspects of our history throughout victoria, not just in melbourne. its amazing so have a look, and support the archives!

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 30: Murder and

Disappearance Edition III

Given that Roanoke and the Dyatlov Pass Incident are credibly solved, though not 100% provable, I'm leaving them out in favor of things more mysterious. I almost left out Amelia Earhart from a previous edition, but the evidence there is sketchier.

No, I'm not doing JFK. I refuse.

Please add new suggestions below, if you have them, for future consideration.

[archival-dodger]

A collection of four gay liberation papers, demonstrating the close ties between left-wing organising and the Australian gay lib movement. The top two come from the 1976 Manifesto of the Socialist Homosexuals, the bottom two are from a queer anarchist paper and satire Marxist groups by painting them as bourgeois intellectuals who would rather talk politics than engage in praxis.

(Photos my own, taken at the Australian Queer Archives. You can find a substantial collection of gay lib material on the site Reason in Revolt).

[slayhamkennedy]

Technically nothing I process at the archives is secret if it's been officially published, and I'm allowed to take and share photographs of non sensitive material, so if anyone was wondering what was happening in the western suburbs of Naarm/Melbourne (where I live) in November of 1978 well the answer is A LOT

[gayartists]

Fear of AIDS (1993), William Yang

[oranglesswrld]

so did anyone else know about the gay lesbian kingdom of the coral sea islands off the coast of queensland. bc i only found out today

[helenhuntingdon]

Casually made a playlist inspired by The Newsreader and Tim & Dale.

With tracks from The Newsreader, fanvids and fics (I’ll share the fanvids - see Ao3 for the fics!) and just 80s queer music!

See also: The Newsreader’s Official Playlist.

And this Tim/Dale Playlist and adorable Tim Ahern playlist.

[milsmakesart]

For the next 10 days my campaign to raise funds for my Queer Gothic Horror Comic 'Lace' will be up on the Australian Cultural Fund Website. Please donate if you can! Funds will cover printing cost, editing, conventions and allowing me to eat!

https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2E9q000000CWVGEA4/queer-gothic-horror-comic-lace

[userdocumentary]

QUEERSTRALIA (2022) Episode 3 dir. Stamatia Maroupas

[notabled-noodle]

In 1973, being gay was no longer a crime in Australia. This was controversial, and the federal bill to end homosexuality being a crime only passed with a very narrow margin. Individual states still criminalised homosexuality. Queensland had these laws up until 1991. Tasmania had them until 1997. Gay Panic laws remained in place until 2014. The Australian and New Zealand Psychological Association were the first psychological association worldwide to declare that homosexuality was not an illness – this also occurred in 1973.

The first Mardi Gras was in 1978. Mardi Gras was created by The Gay Solidarity Group in Sydney, who were formed in solidarity with events that were happening over in San Francisco in the USA. This happened to line up with the visit of the homophobic campaigner Mary Whitehouse to NSW. The Gay Solidarity Group existed as an off-shoot of CAMP, which was lead by John Ware (a gay man) and Cristabel Poll (a lesbian). Mardi Gras was headed by a group of drag queens from Oxford Street, many of whom had been doing drag in secret for quite some time.

Extreme police brutality occurred – 53 people were arrested, and many more were injured. Mardi Gras became an annual event once the news covered this brutality, and more queer people decided to participate.There was a massive media campaign to drop the charges against the people who were arrested on the night of Mardi Gras. 3,000 people marched in the 1979 parade, where no further (recorded) police brutality occurred.

By 1980, there was a divide in the community between radical gay lib people (who saw the parades as protests) and less revolutionary queer folk (who saw the parades as a celebration). Debates started opening up about whether or not businesses should have a role in Mardi Gras – debates that are very much on-going. Many of the more radical queer folk refused to attend Mardi Gras as a result of the commercialisation of the event.

The 1985 Mardi Gras was the beginning of real pride momentum – the AIDS crisis meant that more people than ever were eager to have “one last party”. To date, 6845 people have died of AIDS in Australia. While the Australian government was more receptive to anti-AIDS action than elsewhere, the AIDS crisis still saw an increase in homophobia-based crimes, and the need for solidarity in the queer community was stronger than ever. The Mardi Gras is still a very important event in the Australian queer calendar, and it is crucial that we remember why it was needed in the first place.

For more information:

https://www.pridehistory.org.au

https://www.78ers.org.au/about

[do not tag this “q slur” or similar]

@genderdoe-sly

[queerasfact]

The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was held on this day, 24 June, in 1978 in commemoration of International Gay Solidarity Day, and the ninth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. A parade of around 1500 people was ambushed by police, ending in 53 arrests.

43 years on, the event has now blossomed into the biggest queer festival in Australia. This year it was celebrated as part of WorldPride, and the original protesters - known as the 78ers - led 50,000 people in a Pride march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

[I mages: police arrest a young man at the 1978 march; 78ers marching at WorldPride with a rainbow, black and pink banner reading “78ers The First Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Australia; still out and proud; 1978-2023″]

[archival-dodger]

Tonight marks the 45th annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, one of the seminal moments in Australian queer history. Unfortunately— and in part because of the dominance of (US) American pride discourses, in part because of the transition of the parade from protest to celebration— there’s a general tendency to merely view Mardi Gras as ‘our Stonewall’ without understanding the broader context of Australian histories of sexuality and gender, or recognising the significant differences between Stonewall and Mardi Gras.

This year, I’m marking Mardi Gras by posting three excellent, accessible, and historically informed pieces on what happened on 24 June, 1978 & a piece about life for lgbtq+ elders, some of whom discuss the climate of the 70s and 80s:

ABC’s investigative, multimedia report on the 1st Mardi Gras— featuring interviews with the 78ers.

Sydney’s Mardi Gras: 40 Years of Pride and Protest— in pictures— Text by Nick Henderson, of the Australian Queer Archives.

The joy is waking up and liking who you are— Interviews with 6 lgbt+ elders, on their experiences growing up and growing to love who they are now.

It’s also worth noting that the ABC is airing a series on Australian queer history— Queerstralia— from Tuesday next week. Again, the Australian Queer Archives were one of the groups deeply involved in this, and I’m confident that it will be a genuine contribution to the public history of queer Australia.

Happy World Pride, and Happy Mardi Gras!

[sophieinwonderland]

Found a Hate Blog in The #Plural Tag. 😮‍💨

As I covered recently, "Plural" is an inclusive word with origins in endogenic and non-disordered systems.

If any anti-endo posts in the "#plural" tag or other inclusive tags, don't expect your DNIs to be respected.

They also are doing this knowingly. People have already tried to contact them about using the inclusive plural tag and the hate blog has stubbornly refused.

So if they're going to post in inclusive tags, I figured I might as well respond to some of their vent posts in anti-endo tags. As always, if anti-endos have a problem with this or feel boundaries are being unfairly crossed, please take it up with the hate blog I'm responding to that's invading our spaces.

Also, really weird how they just jump straight into saying "pro-endos" aren't systems either. Hate to break it to you, but there are a lot of traumagenic DID systems whose disorders and trauma are just valid as yours. And they manage to not be bigots too!

Wait... are they claiming that ALL dissociation can only be caused by trauma?

Although previous research has implicated a history of childhood trauma in the development of dissociative tendencies, insufficient cognizance (in this context) has been taken of the distinction between pathological and nonpathological dissociation. In this study, the relationship between childhood trauma and both pathological and nonpathological dissociation was investigated in a sample of 100 Australian adults. Pathological dissociation was positively predicted by dimensions of childhood trauma, but no such relationship was found for nonpathological dissociation (psychological absorption). The data are consistent with the traumagenic model of the dissociative disorders, but factors other than childhood trauma may also be pertinent.

Amazing how they compare us with anti-vaxxers while trying to claim all dissociation is traumagenic. This wasn't even hard to find. 🙄

"I don't care about any morals"

Well, at least you're up front about it.

Also, I tend to check the DID tags every now and then and you know what I don't see there? Endogenic systems!

"#Endo Safe" tags are more often than not used by pro-endo traumagenic systems.

Guess what! If you have DID, you get to post in the DID tags. Being a hateful bigot isn't a requirement! Anyone with DID has the right to post in the DID tags, and can tag their post as endo safe too!

Maybe you wouldn't get as many anons from endogenic systems if you stop posting in inclusive tags. Just a thought!

How are they harmful to the community again?

Weren't you just saying earlier that pro-endos were stealing resources? Now you're acknowledging that they're making resources for the community, but this is also bad?

LOL!

Genic labels literally only exist because of the pro-endo community. And the anti-endo community notoriously hates xeno-origins like NPD-genic. Yes, people will assume you're endo-safe when you use xeno-origins because these terms, like most resources in the plural community, were made by pro-endos.

Keep it up guys! It's working! We're spreading!

Sorry, I don't feel like rebutting anything here. I just appreciate seeing that our efforts are paying off!

The Future is Plural! 😁

Stop!

This talking point has been completely debunked.

System hopping was used by pro-endos 15 years before the earliest association with RAMCOA. The idea that it was a RAMCOA term is a total lie invented by anti-endos!

OSDD-1A and OSDD-1B are not actually official disorders. There is an OSDD. The first example, called OSDD-1 sometimes, gives two possible presentations. One with less distinct alters and amnesia, and another with no amnesia. But these aren't called OSDD-1a or OSDD-1b.

If your goal is education, this nuance is important.

Could it be because ASPEC people have dealt with a ton of exclusionism from some queer communities, and are more accepting of other people as a result? And perhaps they also recognize similarities between system exclusionists and queer exclusionists?

You're coming and posting in our tags!

That's why people keep interacting with you! "Plural" is a term coined by non-disordered systems, you've been told this, and you insist on posting in inclusive tags anyway!

You don't get to bust in someone's door, complain about them in their home, and then tell them not to interact with you! It doesn't work like that!

Funny how these are the only sources they can provide. And they exclusively deal with DID without even touching on other forms of plurality.

Anyway...

The ICD-11 says you can experience "multiple distinct personality states" without a dissociative disorder.

The creators of the theory of structural dissociation have said hypnosis and mediumship may involve self-conscious dissociative parts of the personality.

And Transgender Mental Health, written by Eric Yarbrough and published by the American Psychiatric Association (who publishes the DSM) says you can be plural without trauma or a disorder.

Sources repeatedly affirm that it's possible to be plural without trauma!

Anyone who claims it's impossible to be plural without trauma is either ignorant or lying.

And if you're going to keep spreading hate and misinformation, at least keep it out of inclusive tags!