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Australian Queer Histories Conference 2026 – Sunday 8 November

VPC Theatrette VPC Boardroom AQuA Reading Room
10:30- 11:30am

    Chair: Nick Henderson

    Cherry Charleston, Love letter to the ’90s

    Michaël Monty, “But My Name’s On The Door!” – A night out clubbing on the scene in the late 1990s, early 2000s

    Chair: Daniel Marshall

    Jacquelyn Baker, “My age may seem young… My interests vary from feminism to raging”: Finding traces of young lesbian activism in Melbourne in the 1980s

    Jody Ekert, The Advocacy and Mystery of Vernon Marshall

    Chair: Ange Bailey

    Yves Rees, Life Turned Inside Out: Amateur Drag and the Logic of Carnival in Pre-WWII Australia

    Kate Harris, Community and continuity in Naarm / Melbourne’s drag king costuming

11:30am- 1:00pm

    Chair: Drew Pettifer

    Ted Gott, Agnes Martin

    Mel Deerson and Spiros Panigirakis, Open Garden: queers doing art and activism in Australian gardens

    Jonathan Butler and Jeremy Eaton, “He’s artistic”: Contemporary portraits of closet-era gay art world figures

    Chair: Wayne Murdoch

    Daniel Marshall, Queer Youth Histories

    Laura Castagnini, Lesbian Sex in the Archives: A conversation with Tracey Wall (Caviar Club) and Tiger Salmon (Wicked Women)

    Shay Johnson, Trans-figuring the Past: Transgender representations in Queensland’s Archives

    Chair: Graham Willett

    Janette Verlie and David Gould, When the World Looked Away: A Family’s Story of Love, Loss and the Human Cost of HIV/AIDS. An interview with author Janette Verlie.

    Meredith Johnson, ChillOut: 30 Years of Queer Country Pride

    James O’Brien, Wagga Wagga’s LGBTQIA+ Community in the Early 1990s

1:00- 2:00pm Lunch
2:00- 3:30pm

    Chair: Tiger Salmon

    Sam Stiegler, Learning From Kink: Queer Knowledge across Generations

    Jane Connory, Consent, Censorship and Community: Curating Queer Kink Histories through Australian and British Archives

    Jacob Sunter, Gay Pornography and the Idea of History

    Chair: Yves Rees

    David Gould, Where are the Gay Male AFL Players? Masculinity, Mythology and Belonging

    Alex Ettling, Queer Culture in the Australian Rules Football Cheer Squads, c1950s-1990s

    Bruce Moore, From Flash Mob to Poof Doof: A History of Australian Queer Slang

    Chair: Spiros Panigirakis

    Kate Toone, Out of the journals and into the streets; art as queered dissemination

    Jo Waite, Queer Cartoonists Talk

    Kenton Miller, How to be a queer cartoonist in an epidemic

    Simo Tse, Wanting Each Other: Reading Desires through OG Magazine

3:30- 4:00pm Afternoon tea
4:00- 5:00pm

Julie Peters, Steps forward and back – trans success and failure – a cabaret

Chair: Timothy Jones

Locations:

  • VPC Theatrette – Ground floor
  • VPC Boardroom – Ground floor
  • AQuA Reading Room – Mezzanine floor