Queer Histories Queer Futures Merri-bek

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Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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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Annette Xiberras & Julia Adams-Xiberras

Wurundjeri Elder Annette Xiberras reflects on coming out as a gay Aboriginal woman in the 1960s and …

Barricade Books and queer zines

Barricade Books was an anarchist infoshop, formerly located first on Sydney Road from 1995 to 2003, …

Barb Wire and Brunswick drag

Barry Solomon aka Barb Wire performed working-class drag in Brunswick from about 2000 to 2020 with p…

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Director and playwright Steven Dawson discusses the production and performances of Out Cast Theatre’…

Orlando

Orlando’s Sam Elkin discusses the queer indy disco at the Victoria and Edinburgh Castle hotels and i…

Street violence, beats and resistance

Activist Richard Watts discusses the local activism of Queer Nation after the murder of a gay man at…

Radical queer organising in the 2000s

In the mid 2000s, the share-houses, squats, studio warehouses and strip clubs of Brunswick were home…

Solidarity Salon

Alison Thorne from Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party discusses activism based at their q…

Queer connies and the Brunswick tram depot

Tram conductor, driver and ticket inspector Stratos Filis discusses the community, friendships and a…

Pentridge Prison and LGBTQIA+ criminalisation

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YGLAM

Project Officer Russ Pirie discusses queer, youth, theatre group YGLAM, including its performance in…

Reimagining queer death care

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