I never knew my great uncle Cecil Bengry. Affectionately known as Cic’, this bachelor uncle seems to have lived in the background of other peopl
The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives is currently working with a small team of researchers from Monash University's Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics on a project looking at the ways in which small community-based co
Read more…The Rejected, a 1961 documentary believed to be the first of its kind to discuss homosexuality, was just uncovered by a group of archivists.
The film, which
Read more…Invitation to contribute - online or at our forthcoming workshop
Workshop: Sunday 19 July, 1-3 pm @ ALGA, 6 Claremont St, South Yarra VIC,
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Read more…"The Rejected" is considered the first documentary about homosexuality in the U.S.
“The Rejected” is believed to be the first American TV documentary on h
Read more…Queering Archives: Historical Unravelings (Radical History Review, n.120, Fall 2014)
Issue Editors Daniel Marshall, Kevin P. Murphy, and Zeb Tortorici
This issue of Radical History Review explores how activists, archivists, and scholars— in engaging gr
Read more…I remember coming out in 1975, six years after Stonewall, that seismic event that was the out and proud culmination of th
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I never knew my great uncle Cecil Bengry. Affectionately known as Cic’, this bachelor uncle seems to have lived in the background of other peopl
Joan Nestle: International Women’s Day
/ 25 May 2015
Welcome to episode three! In this episode I talk to Lambda Award winning writer and editor and the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and patron of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Arc
For lesbian lips only : Are you a woman, or a lesbian?
The Charlotte Museum Trust contains within its archives a selection of lesbian feminist newsletters and magazines from the 1980s. Run by collectives and penned by volunteers, these publications we
Read more…'I am proud of my homosexuality..', Gay Pride Week 1973, Photo by Rennie Ellis, courtesy Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive
GORDON DOAK Gay activist 22-8-1931 - 12-4-2015
Gordon Doak was a well-known figure in the formative years of the gay liberation m
Read more…Arts Centre Melbourne's Theatres of War exhibition explores the Australian experience of wartime entertainment, and the transformative power of performance during times of great adversity.
Phil Jay in The Kiwi Revie Company, 1946, Photo by Broothorn
Read more…ALGA's latest Bulletin, n.66, another bumper issue, is now on our website.
It includes news about:
PHOTOS: Your 99 Transgender History Lessons
We got 99 problems, but finding our trans roots isn't one — thanks to a new exhibit from the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art and the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives.
Sir Lady Java (right) protesting
Read more…27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced
The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Awards–or the “Lammys,” as they are affectionately known–kick off another record-breaking year with today’s announcement of the finalists. They were chosen from a re
Read more…Since 2012, the archivists at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries have been hard at work on a project to make previously hidden collections available to the public for the first time. Thanks to a two-year project funded in part by a gen
Read more…2014 saw huge steps forward in representations of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning) lives in public history on both sides of the Atlantic. Projects have been launched in both the United States and the United Kingdom
Read more…Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives' 2014 Annual Report
As the Archives enters its 37th year of activity, the Committee is ever more conscious of the value of our collection, and we are pleased to say that we continue to grow in size and accessibility
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