Queer Histories/Queer Futures is an audio journey into the stories of our LGBTQIA+ communities in Merri-bek, past, present and future.
From pubs to squats, protests to parties, discover Merri-bek’s queer history as told by the people who shaped it. Walk the streets with us over fourteen episodes to discover the collective histories of LGBTQIA+ organising, activism and community in Merri-bek and our imaginings for the future.
Queer Histories/Queer Futures is a Lee Ellis Working Group initiative of Merri-bek Libraries. Produced for Merri-bek City Council by 3CR Community Radio.
The views expressed in this podcast do not represent Merri-bek City Council.
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Barry Solomon aka Barb Wire performed working-class drag in Brunswick from about 2000 to 2020 with p…
Director and playwright Steven Dawson discusses the production and performances of Out Cast Theatre’…
Orlando’s Sam Elkin discusses the queer indy disco at the Victoria and Edinburgh Castle hotels and i…
Activist Richard Watts discusses the local activism of Queer Nation after the murder of a gay man at…
In the mid 2000s, the share-houses, squats, studio warehouses and strip clubs of Brunswick were home…
Alison Thorne from Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party discusses activism based at their q…
Tram conductor, driver and ticket inspector Stratos Filis discusses the community, friendships and a…
Queer communities have long been targeted, criminalised and imprisoned. This persecution has also le…
Project Officer Russ Pirie discusses queer, youth, theatre group YGLAM, including its performance in…
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