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+Read MoreThe Pride History Group has created a collection of over 100 oral history interviews which bears witness to the queering of Sydney. We present an overview of these interviews as a guide to our collection and glimpse of our history.
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Governor Launches 100 Voices
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Welcome to the Pride History Group
We are a community history group which collects information about Sydney's LGBTIQ past.
Although members of the LGBTIQ community have made rich contributions to Sydney life, many of these contributions have been forgotten or erased from the broader historical record. We aim to correct these omissions by unearthing, recording and preserving material that relates to LGBTIQ people in Sydney's past.
We also like to engage the broader community with the material we collect. Some of the ways we have done this include books and community talks.
We are a voluntary organisation, with members who meet monthly, and we are always keen to hear from people who would like to be involved and help us to record and preserve Sydney's LGBTIQ histories, please contact us.
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Coming Out into a Hostile World +
Australian society in the late 1960s was hostile to homosexuals or, at least, its institutions were. The Law treated gay men as criminals who could be locked away for 14 years for the “abominable crime of buggery”, and the police were active in trying to prosecute them. Read More -
Australia's first national coming out +
Francesca (Chesca) Curtis's television appearance on The Bailey File, a Melbourne-based current affairs programme on commercial television TV's Channel 9, in May or June 1970, speaking about the aims of the Australian Lesbian Movement was arguably Australia's first "coming out" in the media. Read More -
Leichhardt/Dykehardt +
Homosexual/transgender social groups began forming in the early 1960s in Sydney. They offered membership of a discreet “camp” organisation. Their dances provided the perfect stage for Sydney’s new amateur drag scene to flourish and a place for men and women to meet up and find Miss or Mr Right – at least for the night. In the Leichhardt area, there was no shortage of public halls for these groups. Read More -
And The Beats Go On +
Male homosexual acts are no longer criminal in NSW – the law was amended in 1984, and ‘gay’ men can live quite open lives, with a range of venues where they can socialize in ways similar to their heterosexual counterparts. Also, the two worlds now softly collide, with gays and straights mixing together quite easily in many places in Sydney’s inner suburbs. Read More
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