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Collecting, We're not all straight in the Garden State - Doug Lucas (designer) (Melbourne - Pokeys, c.1981), Badge Collection, 8-80-08We’re not all straight in the Garden State – Doug Lucas (designer) (Melbourne – Pokeys, c.1981), Badge Collection, 8-80-08 preserving Gay liberation - David McDiarmid (artist) (Sydney, NSW - Gay Liberation, c.1972), Badge Collection, 5-43-12Gay liberation – David McDiarmid (artist) (Sydney, NSW – Gay Liberation, c.1972), Badge Collection, 5-43-12 and Young, Gay & Proud - Adam Carr (designer) (Melbourne : Gay Teachers and Students Group, c.1978), Badge Collection, 04-36-01Young, Gay & Proud – Adam Carr (designer) (Melbourne- Gay Teachers and Students Group, c.1978), Badge Collection, 04-36-01 celebrating Doreen Mangannini at Star Hotel, Photograph Collection, BN-08aDoreen Mangannini at Star Hotel, Photograph Collection, BN-08a Australia’s [Mardi Gras Logo] Badge Collection[Mardi Gras Logo] Negative histories since 1978.

Gay Pride Week march, Adelaide, 15 September 1973, Jill Matthews Collection (Photo: Jill Matthews)

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No end to the way / Neville Jackson (London : Corgi, 1967)

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Design for the Gay Mardi Gras - Allan Booth, 1983, Grant Kilby Collection

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Colin Simson's Roo BC overlay - Colin Simson, Australia, c.1980-1990s, Papers of Colin Simson

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Wimmins' Dance : Disco Warehouse, Bay 9, No 9 Ultimo Road, Haymarket (Sydney, NSW, Australia : Girls Own, 1981) A003

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2024 Australian Queer History Conference

AQuA is pleased to announce that the Australian Queer Histories Conference will return on 20 and 21 September 2024 at the Victorian Pride Centre in Melbourne.