Before Mardi Gras: Gay+ in the 1970s – The 2019 ALGA History Conference – Friday 15th November

9.00‑9.30	Welcomes and admin
9.30-10.30	Panel Discussion: The Homosexual Law Reform Society of the ACT (James Grieve, Thomas Mautner, Elizabeth Reid, Graham Willett)
10.30-11.00	Morning Tea
11.00-12.30	Session 1A [Chair Scott McKinnon] Catherine Freyne: Bergman, Bechdel, Brownstein and Me: Daughters write gay dads Will Sergeant: Rainbow Oral Histories: the 40th anniversary of John Lee’s oral histories of older Adelaide camp men Yorick Smaal: Remembering Sex: Life histories, young males and queer identities	Session 1B Chris Wallace: ‘Dear Maie… Love Patrick’: The Maie Casey, Patrick White correspondence 1966-1978 Cameron Colwell: ‘Beneath the House, Under the Station, and in Plain Sight: The Obscurity of Queer Sydney in Sumner Locke Elliott’s Fairyland
12.30-1.30	Lunch
1.30-3.00	Session 2A Leigh Boucher and Sophie Robinson: Men’s Sheds and the History of (Hetero)sexuality in Australia Daniel Rogers: ‘Rubbers are Bringing Men Together Again’: Condom packaging during the AIDS Crisis Sharon Lobo: Melbourne’s (In)conveniences: Homophobia and the Dequeering of Queer Spaces in Melbourne	Session 2B Richard Turner: “What is this Gay Community Shit?” Robert French: “You Won’t Feel So Gay Behind Bars”: The Beginnings of Homosexual Law Reform in NSW, 1969 – 1980 Bruce Moore: The word Camp in Australian English and in Australian Camp/Gay History
3.00-3.30	Afternoon Tea
3.30-5.00	Session 3A Gary Schliemann: Homosexual Rights and Sexual Freedom: Living It Karen Donnelly: Move over Priscilla: The Female Impersonators of the AIF	Session 3B Eric Riddler: Kites, Crochet and Camp: Queer art in the Seventies Wayne Murdoch: Sissies at the Movies: The 1930s Scott McKinnon: Adults Only: Film classification and depictions of homosexuality in 1970s Australia