Sydney Gay & Lesbian History Walk | |||||||||||||||||
WALK TWO - Part One - 15:26 minutes
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 El Alamein Fountain, Kings Cross |
* El Alamein Fountain, flats in Kings Cross in the 1920s and the rise of a bohemian and homosexual subculture * Camp party hostess Rose in Kings Cross, 1940s * Kings Cross' annual Artists Ball with extract from John Rose's novel "Up the Cross" describing a police raid on a similar 1940s camp ball * Some other camp venues in Kings Cross 1960s and 1970s * The six o'clock swill and police surveillance at the Rex Hotel, 1950s - 1970s * Gay venues Costello's Bar and the Barrel Inn, 1970s. | ||||||||||||||||
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WALK TWO - Part Two - 14:19 minutes
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 Police arrests at the 1978 Mardi Gras |
* Les Girls cabaret venue 1960s - 1990s * Queen's Cross / Kings Cross name change, 1901 * Personal testimonies of 1978 Gay Mardi Gras, police arrests and beginnings of modern Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras | ||||||||||||||||
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WALK TWO - Part Three - 14:19 minutes
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 Paddington |
* Green Park's 'Wedding Chapel' * Mother Abbyss gives blessing at the site of the 'Wedding Chapel' * 'The Wall' in Darlinghurst Road as a cruising area 1960s - 1980s * The Aquarius Club, early 1970s, gay club held in the Jewish Community Hall, extract from journalist John Edwards in "Nation", 1970 * Paddington Town Hall 1970s - 1980s * Paddington gentrification * Enzo's Wine Bar and the Apollo Bar, Paddington, 1970s * Chez Ivy's Bondi Junction, drag venue 1970s * The Rave Room, women's club in Bondi Junction, 1970 HOME WALK ONE WALK THREE MORE HISTORICAL IMAGES 1971 CAMP SCENE - FROM "GO-SET" | ||||||||||||||||
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