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2 Feb – 26 April 2024

Queer Connections: Celebrating LGBTIQA+ History in Port Phillip

Carlisle Street Arts Space

The City of Port Phillip, in conjunction with The Australian Queer Archives and Queer-ways, presents an imaginary evening through time across some of its most iconic venues. From a night out at the Palace de Dance of the early 1920s to the Prince of Wales legendary Pokies and Pennies of the 1970s, come and explore the personalities, trailblazers, entertainers, issues, glamour and humour that exemplify the pride of Port Phillip’s LGBTIQA+ community.

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1 May – 30 June 2024

The Air is Electric – David McDiarmid in America

Victorian Pride Centre
79-81 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda

During his travels in the United States, McDiarmid was constantly documenting his experiences in correspondence and photographs, and through these we can start to understand the excitement of the liberatory activism and emergent gay community of the late 1970s – ‘the air was electric’ with new possibilities and freedom.

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3 – 21 July 2024

Muru-Ba – First Nations LGBTIQA+ Trailblazers

Victorian Pride Centre
79-81 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda

Muru-ba is a physical and online exhibition showcasing the faces and stories of First Nations LGBTQIA+ Elders involved with the LGBTQIA+ rights and First Nations community movements since the 1970s from across Australia.

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