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Queer Thinking Podcast: Now and the next 45 years - The 70's.

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Queer Thinking - Now and the next 45 years: The 70s

Welcome to a very special installment of Queer Thinking – Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras are celebrating our 45th anniversary in 2023 and over this four-part series we’re taking you on a journey through time as we tell the full story of one of the largest pride movements in the world. From the protest of 1978, to over 1 million event attendees at the first WorldPride in the Southern Hemisphere and everything in between – we’re unpacking all the moments that made Sydney Mardi Gras the force for pride, progress and community it is today.

First stop: the 70s. Triana is joined by 78er legends Robyn Kennedy and Karl Zlotkowski who share their experiences of being LGBTQIA+ in 1970s Australia. They recall a Sydney on the brink of transformation in the lead-up to the very first Sydney Mardi Gras on 24 June 1978. The events that followed set off a chain of change that still continues today.

Queer Thinking is produced on the sacred lands of the Boon Wurrung people of Kulin Nation and will discuss events that took place on Gadigal, Cammeraygal, Bidigal, Darug and Dharawal lands. We’d like to extend our acknowledgement to all lands on which you, our listeners, are tuning in from and pay our respects to Elders past and present, with a special acknowledgment to the Rainbow Elders – part of the longest-continuous culture in the world. Sovereignty has never been ceded. This Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

For our Aboriginal or Torres Strait listeners, please know this podcast may mention the names of the people who are no longer with us.

102.7FM Queer View Mirror: Dennis Altman Queers Crime Fiction

Sam and Hamish from 3RRR Digital / 102.7FM’s Queer View Stories speak to historian, academic and gay rights activist Dennis Altman about camping up the crime genre with his debut novel Death in the Sauna.

Click here to listen to the episode on the 3RRR website.

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We, The City: Queer, Deadbeat, Outsider - Toby Zoates

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This week on We, The City Blue speaks with Toby Zoates.

Toby is a queer punk artist who works in the mediums of painting, animation, film, comics, writing and cartooning. Toby is an original 78’er, he was part of the group of protestors who formed the first Mardi Gras march in 1978 in Sydney. Toby and I discuss his most recent novel, Punk Outsider, which chronicles how Sydney has changed from the late 70s til now..

Listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or click here to listen on PodBean. Access the transcript of the episode by clicking here.

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Queer Thinking Podcast: My First Mardi Gras

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Guests:

  • Sallie Colchin (78er)

  • Carol Muller (member of the transgender community)

  • Sarah Levett (member of the First Nations community)

Episode description:

Everyone remembers their first Mardi Gras. Whether you went to the Parade with your parents when you were young, when you first came out, watched it on TV or maybe you marched at the first Mardi Gras in 1978. However you were introduced to the Parade, it’s a pretty special moment. On this episode of Queer Thinking, we’re chatting to three different people with very different experiences of their first Mardi Gras.

Listen to the episode here.

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Inner West Council History Week 2021: From the Ground Up - Forefront of Gay and Lesbian Activism

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Robyn Plaister sat down with Inner West Council as part of History Week 2021 to talk about her life as an activist.

Watch the video below, or directly on YouTube. Read the transcript of the interview here.

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78ers chat with Nic and Nick from Proud at Woolies

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Leading up to Mardi Gras 2021, 78ers Robyn Plaister and Pete Clare dropped into the (virtual) studio to chat with Nic and Nick from Proud at Woolies on their podcast LGBTQ+ about what it was like being in the first Mardi Gras in 1978.

Have a listen below!

Do you know when and why Mardi Gras first started? In this episode we talk to Robyn Plaister and Pete Clare, two 78er's who participated in Sydney's First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in 1978, as they get behind the question, 'What was it like being...

The Proud network exists to create a supportive environment across Woolworths Group for the team who identify as LGBTQ+ or who are supporting allies of the community. Proud is made up of over 2,500 individuals and growing, who believe in diversity, acceptance and equality in the workplace.

Check out the other episode in the Proud at Woolies LGBTQ+ podcast here

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Joy 94.9: Global Pride 2020

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Around the world about 500 pride parades and LGBTI festivals have already been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Tonight we hear about how our communities around the world are coming together to create a 24hr global event online which will feature celebrities, politicians, Australian royalty and many grassroots stories from local pride communities.

 

Robyn Kennedy, knows Pride. She was part of the first Sydney Mardi Gras – a party and protest in 1978. She is coordinating the Asia-Pacific component of Global Pride. Listen to Robyn’s segment on the Joy Media website by clicking here.