CALL FOR PAPERS



'Drawing the Line Against AIDS'

4-5 February 2010

The University of Adelaide, Australia



Paper abstracts are sought for 'Drawing the Line Against AIDS', an

interdisciplinary and international conference concerning the history
and

impact of cultural production surrounding HIV/AIDS.



The conference will explore the past, present, and future of AIDS art,
AIDS

activism and AIDS prevention, and the connections between them. In a
series of

keynote presentations, artist talks, panels and a culminating

roundtable, 'Drawing the Line Against AIDS' will examine the often
productive,

sometimes uneasy relationships between art inspired by AIDS and HIV/AIDS

prevention.



Please note that the term 'art' is broadly defined. Papers concerning
responses

to AIDS in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, dance, film etc.
will

be considered.



Further information about the conference and directions for submitting
paper

proposals can be found at:

http://www.hss.adelaide.edu.au/historypolitics/conferences/drawing/



NB: The deadline for paper abstracts is 12 December 2009.



Dr Paul Sendziuk

Conference convenor

School of History and Politics

The University of Adelaide

The program for  the conference (Friday December 4 and Saturday December
5) has been revised. The current version is attached.



For more details on the conference, check out the Archives website:
www.alga.org.au



Graham





Graham Willett
Lecturer in Australian Studies
Australian Centre
School of Historical Studies
University of Melbourne

+ 61 3 8344 3630

Hi all



Details of the annual Australia's Homosexual Histories Conference
(December 4 and 5 in Melbourne) are now available on the Australian
Lesbian and Gay Archives website: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~alga/



Also there you will find details of the Thesis Prize that the Archives
awards each year fourth year honours thesis (or equivalent)  on GLQ
issues. If you have eligible students, or know of any, do pass this on.



Graham







Graham Willett
President

Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives

www.alga.org.au <blocked::http://www.alga.org.au/>

 

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book launch flyer

I have a collection of about 400 books on sexuality, most of them
academic studies from the 1970s through the 1990s, as well as a
collection of gay fiction from the 1950s through the 1980s.  I'd like
to find a good home for these, preferably a library that's building
its collection, though I'd consider alternatives.

John Ballard

A couple of additions:
Joe McCarthy was Catholic.

Delaney followed James Frederic Scott, 1948-52, and was followed by
Norman Allan, 1962-72.  If the story about the NSW Police Commissioner
position is correct, this may or may not establish Delaney's
Catholicism.

Quoting lexw@...:

> This is largely top-of-the-head stuff but I am confident of it.
>
> C.J. Delaney is memorable for his comment that homosexuality was the
> greatest danger facing Australia.  This may have been in the 1954 NSW
> Police Department report or it may have been reported in the press.
>
> His father Cornelius was from County Clare, so almost certainly
> Catholic.  Colin was born in Victoria and his Who's Who entry (1955
> edition) does not give a school.  I assume he was RC - in those days
> NSW Police Commissioners alternated, Catholic / Mason / Catholic /
> Mason.  His predecessor and successor's surnames will tell the story.
> Delaney is not a likely name for a Mason at the time.
>
> The context for all this is essentially a coincidence of things.  Joe
> McCarthy and his Un-American Activies committee had made a
> homosexuality / communism link around 1950 which attracted the
> interest of the anti-communist forces in the ALP here, the Groupers,
> forces that became the DLP.  B.A. Santamaria took it up, it suited his
> Movement's organic society, pro-family, it is all about the white
> picketed family line.  Was McCarthy Catholic?  I am not sure -
> presumably.
>
> It also tied in with the more English argument based supposedly on
> Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, also a very organic
> society argument.  Gibbon was being touted at the time very much in
> England and thus Australia on one side of the debate sparked at the
> time in England, 1952, by the arrests of Wildeblood et al, arrests
> that led to the Wolfenden Committee in 1954.
>
> Thus, in this political climate, with a right wing Catholic dominated
> NSW Labor government, right wing RC Archbishop of Sydney,
> substantially Catholic police force etc, we almost inevitably got C.J.
> Delaney and the police entrapment and decoy work against gay men that
> characterised the early 1950s here.
>
> So I think the answer to Liz's question is clearly 'yes'.
>
> Lex
>
> Quoting gwillettozhomo <gwillett@...>:
>
>> A request from Liz Ross (please reply direct to her -- and drop a
>> copy here if you have anythign interesting)
>>
>> Can anyone help - I'd like more information about Colin Delaney, the
>> NSW Police Commissioner. I'm particularly interested in his
>> politics, was he part of a Catholic/anti-Communist push in
>> society/the police force - the Groupers/ALP, etc. I've looked in the
>> obvious sources online and in City of the Plain, etc.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Liz Ross (email: ljr47@...)
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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This is largely top-of-the-head stuff but I am confident of it.

C.J. Delaney is memorable for his comment that homosexuality was the
greatest danger facing Australia.  This may have been in the 1954 NSW
Police Department report or it may have been reported in the press.

His father Cornelius was from County Clare, so almost certainly
Catholic.  Colin was born in Victoria and his Who's Who entry (1955
edition) does not give a school.  I assume he was RC - in those days
NSW Police Commissioners alternated, Catholic / Mason / Catholic /
Mason.  His predecessor and successor's surnames will tell the story.
Delaney is not a likely name for a Mason at the time.

The context for all this is essentially a coincidence of things.  Joe
McCarthy and his Un-American Activies committee had made a
homosexuality / communism link around 1950 which attracted the
interest of the anti-communist forces in the ALP here, the Groupers,
forces that became the DLP.  B.A. Santamaria took it up, it suited his
Movement's organic society, pro-family, it is all about the white
picketed family line.  Was McCarthy Catholic?  I am not sure -
presumably.

It also tied in with the more English argument based supposedly on
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, also a very organic
society argument.  Gibbon was being touted at the time very much in
England and thus Australia on one side of the debate sparked at the
time in England, 1952, by the arrests of Wildeblood et al, arrests
that led to the Wolfenden Committee in 1954.

Thus, in this political climate, with a right wing Catholic dominated
NSW Labor government, right wing RC Archbishop of Sydney,
substantially Catholic police force etc, we almost inevitably got C.J.
Delaney and the police entrapment and decoy work against gay men that
characterised the early 1950s here.

So I think the answer to Liz's question is clearly 'yes'.

Lex

Quoting gwillettozhomo <gwillett@...>:

> A request from Liz Ross (please reply direct to her -- and drop a
> copy here if you have anythign interesting)
>
> Can anyone help - I'd like more information about Colin Delaney, the
> NSW Police Commissioner. I'm particularly interested in his
> politics, was he part of a Catholic/anti-Communist push in
> society/the police force - the Groupers/ALP, etc. I've looked in the
> obvious sources online and in City of the Plain, etc.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Liz Ross (email: ljr47@...)
>
>
>



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A request from Liz Ross (please reply direct to her -- and drop a copy here if
you have anythign interesting)

Can anyone help - I'd like more information about Colin Delaney, the NSW Police
Commissioner. I'm particularly interested in his politics, was he part of a
Catholic/anti-Communist push in society/the police force - the Groupers/ALP,
etc. I've looked in the obvious sources online and in City of the Plain, etc.

Thanks.

Liz Ross (email: ljr47@...)

 

Joseph Chetcuti has now published his long-awaited history of queer Malta.

Details at: http://www.queermalta.com/

For an enjoyably racy account of Lord Beauchamp, last colonial
governor of NSW and model for Lord Marchmain, see an account in last
weekend's Sunday Times,  "Sex scandal behind Brideshead Revisited" at
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/
books/book_extracts/article6788504.ece

For more on Beauchamp and Australia, see the ADB entry at
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070233b.htm

Joseph Chetcuti has now published his long-awaited history of queer Malta.

Details at: http://www.queermalta.com/

Caroline Syons, who many of you will know for her work (scholarly and practical)
around queers and sport has asked me to circulate this questionnaire.

She assures me that you don't need to be sporty to do it.

www.comeout2play.net

Graham

Hi,

The Queers of the Desert site has a new home:

http://www.indigoz.com.au/qotd/

Please update your links and bookmarks, and tell your friends!

We have also established a Facebook page to replace the current Yahoo group that
will hopefully broaden our readership and foster the addition of some more
stories:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=110943968804&ref=mf

CALL FOR PAPERS:
AUSTRALIAN HOMOSEXUAL HISTORIES CONFERENCE 9,
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Friday December 4 and Saturday December 5, 2009

The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives announces the latest in its annual
conference series, Australia's Homosexual Histories, and is seeking offers of
papers.

The Australian Homosexual Histories Conference has generated some pioneering and
innovative work on the histories of GLBTIQ identity and culture in Australia. 
The conference brings together members of the GLBTIQ community, as well as
professional scholars, researchers and students within the broad field of
sexuality and gender studies.

The latest installment of this conference series will be held at the University
of Melbourne on 4 and 5 December 2009.  The conveners, Graham Willett and Yorick
Smaal, are now extending a call for abstracts for this event.  We are especially
interested papers with an historical perspective, although, sociological,
discursive, legal and cultural and other approaches are also welcome.

Abstracts for conference papers should be approximately 100 words and must be
submitted by Friday 30 September 2009.  If accepted, all papers must adhere to a
strict twenty minutes time-length.

We are hoping to publish a collection of refereed papers early in 2010.

Abstracts, along with questions or queries should be addressed to the conveners

Graham Willett, email: gwillett@..., or
Yorick Smaal, email: yorick_smaal@...

Dear All,

To mark our participation in the Queensland Association of Healthy Communities
'Doing LGBT history' Colloquium to be held at the State Library of Queensland on
Monday 13 July the State Library of South Australia is proud to launch The GALAH
issues No. 1 (January 1989) to No. 10 (February 1990) in their entirety on its
SA Memory website.

The GALAH was published by the Adelaide Directory Collective providing South
Australian, Australian and International news and events. It was distributed
through outlets in all Australian states and territories.

In giving permission for the State Library to reproduce Adelaide Directory
Collective publications Rodney Ellis said "I was the last member of the Adelaide
Directory Collective and published Catch 22 and then the Galah. Central to our
purpose, then at the time, was presenting a positive self image to the gay and
lesbian community. I would be more than happy to give you permission to preserve
and present our efforts. I remember meetings where the Gay Archives were
discussed and all members supported the preservation of copies of Catch 22 for
future generations. Likewise with the Galah."

Highlights from the first ten issues include the birth of The GOLDEN Club, a 4
page interview with Rodney Croome of the Tasmanian Gay andd Lesbian Rights
Group, the AIDS Memorial Quilt, AZT, Festival of Life, ACT UP, community
response to the Fred Nile 'Cleansing March', ILGA 1989 conference in Vienna,
London Lesbian and Gay pride festival, Gay Immigration, Queensland Association
for Gay Law Reform, and Gay Marriage.

Access can be a bit cluncky so to view each of the 265 pages of gay history go
to SA Memory - Radical Dream - Gay Rights - The GALAH at
http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1280
At the bottom of the page are templates - select one and click 'view details',
this will open a template which can only display 10 pages at a time - as I said
cluncky but cluncky access is better than none. At the bottom of the image is
'view more images' link - click this and it will open in a new window with
thumbnails of each of the pages accessible from this template viewable at the
bottom of the main image, click on the thumbnail to view it.

In an attempt to make items findable I have added key words to each record but
the keyword list is far from exhaustive - I would have liked OCR but not on my
budget!

Happy browsing and any questions or comments are always appreciated.

Jenny

Jenny Scott
Content Services Librarian
State Library of South Australia
+61 8 8207-7344
+61 417-899-967
Scott.Jenny@...

From Mannie De Saxe and Ken Lovett, Lesbian and Gay Solidarity, Melbourne.

We received this today, Thursday 2 July 2009, with a request to forward it to all concerned:

Media release - 1 July 2009

Campaign call: end discrimination spin-off against same-sex couples 

On the day of the July 1 start to the federal governments social security
reforms, Greens MP Lee Rhiannon has called on the government not to force
same-sex couples to expose their relationship after years of community
alienation.

"The federal government's failure to protect same-sex couples who will be
financially disadvantaged by the social security changes will undermine the
many benefits from the national reform program", Ms Rhiannon said. 

"The Rudd government should show compassion to the same-sex couples who have
lived for decades with discrimination and understandably do not want to
publicly disclose their living arrangements. 

"As with other changes to the Government pension, this one should be
'grandfathered' so that people already on a pension do not suddenly lose a
large part of their income. Couples who are finally recognised as such by
Centrelink after a lifetime of exclusion, should be maintain their current
income until death.

"The Greens' plan to make this a community based campaign so Labor and Liberal
MPs in the federal parliament come to their senses and do not turn their backs
on same-sex people disadvantaged by the new law.

"The couples who now have to cope with the unintentional negative consequences
of the social security reforms are gay and lesbian people who over many
decades have had to adjust their lives because of society wide discrimination.

"Now that the Australian law has caught up with community standards the
government needs to ensure that vulnerable groups of elderly same-sex couples
do not suffer.

"My federal colleague Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has called for the federal
government not to penalise same sex couples on social security benefits. In
the senate Senator Hanson-Young moved that at a minimum there should be a
12-month transitional period to ensure individuals impacted by the changes
have sufficient time to readjust their finances. 

"Labor and the Coalition parties joined forces to defeat the Greens amendment. 

"We cannot allow the government to turn their back on this issue and allow
same-sex couples to suffer because they are not willing to be flexible in the
application of the law.

"The government has protected people disadvantaged by previous social security
reforms. Now they should take similar action for same-sex couples who from
today will be hit with another level of discrimination", Ms Rhiannon said. 
For more information: 9230 3551, 0427 861 568

--------------------------------------------------

Lee Rhiannon, MLC

The Greens

Parliament of New South Wales

Macquarie St, Sydney 2000
Tel: +61-2-9230 3551 

Fax: +61-2-9230 3550

lee.rhiannon@...

http://www.lee.greens.org.au/

http://www.democracy4sale.org/ 

http://twitter.com/leerhiannon

Australian Biography: Noel Tovey

PREMIERES WEDNESDAY 1 JULY 2009 AT 10PM ON SBS

http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/showcases/noeltovey/

The 35th SPAIDS planting between 11am and 3pm will be in the dedicated
AIDS Memorial Groves, signposted, in the park in Sydney adjacent to
Barwon Park Road off Princes Highway. Look for the Old Brickworks
Chimneys entrance, opposite St Peters Station.

SPAIDS invites you to plant a young Australian tree provided by Sydney City Council's tree nursery to commemorate the life of someone who has died from HIV/AIDS. SPAIDS plantings also include commemorating lesbians, gay men and transgender
people who have died as the result of violence, the Nazi Holocaust and as
another memorial alternative to the Quilt Project and Candlelight. Picnic
around midday with barbecue provided by Council, on Sunday 2 AUGUST, after
which we hope to have a short tree-blessing ceremony.

We will picnic in the Reflection Area, dedicated at the 21st planting. This area is on a
hill overlooking the SPAIDS Groves area. SPAIDS has a complete listing of
all names commemorated since the first plantings on 15 May 1994. The list
has about 1200 names after 34 plantings, and is available for viewing at
each planting day. To date over 8000 trees have been planted in the
Groves.

Join us for our 35^th planting and visit the Reflection Area in remembrance of those we have lost in our communities. Plant more trees and help to enhance the growing
beauty of the SPAIDS Groves.