Before Mardi Gras: Gay+ in the 1970s – The 2019 ALGA History Conference – Saturday 16th November

9.00-10.00	Panel discussion: Where and how does Trans history fit within (or outside?) our concept of Gay and Lesbian history?
10.00-11.00	Session 4A Katerina Liskova: Sexual Deviants and Delinquents: From a Non-Issue to a Large-Scale Tim Jones: Religious LGBT conversion practices and spiritual health care in Australia, 1973-2019	Session 4B Craig Middleton & Nikki Sullivan: Queering the Museum Online: A Workshop
11.00-11.30	Morning Tea
11.30-1.00	Session 5A Damian Almeida: Gale’s Archives of Sexuality & Gender Bill Calder: QTV, Community TV and queer history Graham Willett: Queer Oz Folk, a publishing proposal	Session 5B Joseph Chetcuti: Binary gay and lesbian history in a ‘non-binary era’: Ditching the social/political divide in our history John Fowler, It’s Time, Ready or Not
1.00-2.00	Lunch
2.00-3.30	Session 6A Peter Robinson: Gay Men’s Working Lives in the 1970s Matthew Egan and Barbara Voss: Coming out within the accounting profession during the marriage equality debate	Session 6B Drew Pettifer: “A sorrowful act”: Art and Australia’s first sodomy trial (1727) Alex Bayley: White Australia, Straight Australia: Anti-Chinese Homophobia in the Gold Rush Press Graham Willett: The three scandals of Alfred Gottschalk
3.30-4.00	Afternoon Tea
4.00-5.00	Session 7A Anthony Venn-Brown: Why I chose Christian gay conversion in the early 70s Bart van der Wel: “God, give me chastity, but not yet”: An history of Western attitudes to male masturbation.	Session 7B Tyler Whitmarsh: An evaluation of citizen heritage in the identification of Queer heritage in Melbourne, Victoria Alex Bayley: Digging up Queer Histories on the Victorian Goldfields