2024 Australian Queer History Conference – Friday 20th September

	VPC Theatrette	AQuA Reading Room
9:00‑ 9:30am	Registration and Welcome
9:30- 10:30am	Richard Peterson: Autobiography Jonathan Butler: Gay homicide: a catalyst for change? Brian Finemore	Eric Riddler: ‘Frothy camp’: the lavender menace versus mid twentieth century Australian art David Gould: Light from the darkest decade. How male homosexual lives in 1940s and 1950s Australia inform our queer present
10:30- 11:00am	Morning Tea
11:00am- 12:30pm	Angela Dwyer & Emma Turley: What are the histories of LGBTQ+ kinksters and police? Tiger Salmon: The development of erotic lesbian imagery in the late 1980s and into the 1990s Lorcane Deriu: Lesbian discourses in Australia: Conceptualising the lesbian gaze – seeing ourselves in lesbian media	Garrett Prestage: The practice of community research in one man’s career Chloe Mackallah, Eliot Walton & Mohammad Taha: A History of Queerness in STEMM – a QueersInScience research project Gary Dowsett & Neal Fitgerald: ‘The Dowsett Papers: Framing forty years of gay men’s sexuality, culture and politics’
12:30- 1:30pm	Lunch: Guided tour of the Victorian Pride Centre
1:30- 3:00pm	Kenton Penley Miller: History is just proof that good gossip never goes out of date John Witte: Policing love and sex: lives of same sex attracted people and the law in Newcastle and the Hunter 1867-1977 Nick Henderson & Adele Gai Histoire: John Lee’s oral history of Adelaide gay life	Todd Fuller, Jo Derbyshire & Drew Pettifer: 1727 Tragedy and Art Lucy Sussex: Fergus and his friends
3:00- 3:30pm	Afternoon Tea
3:30- 5:00pm	Alex Ettling: The Dover Hotel Andy De Groot: Eat the rainbow!: queer food, story sharing and community building Jeremy Smith: Counter-mapping Queer Sydney	Jeff Sparrow: Writing Lesbia Harford’s lovers Ava Wansbrough: Popular representations of queer Australian history: ‘She and her pretty friend’ and ‘Queerstralia’ Bruce Moore: From poofter to Poof Doof: the history of an Australian word