Sexuality

  • [MELBOURNE] How's Tricks? A variety night to celebrate International Women's Day. Sunday March 6 [1984]. Circus Oz Big Top, Princes Park.

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    CIRCUS OZ WOMEN & ASSOCIATES

    [MELBOURNE] How’s Tricks? A variety night to celebrate International Women’s Day. Sunday March 6 [1984]. Circus Oz Big Top, Princes Park.

    Featuring: Janet Andrewartha, Back to Bourke Street Women, Chrissie Best and Jenny Catrin, Sue Bradley, Circus Oz Women’s Revolutionary Percussion Ensemble, Sally Forth, Gloria Glitter and Glad Tobehere, Sue Ingleton, Teresa O’Reilly, Liz Patterson, Lois Purcell, Jami Trebilcock, Jeannie Wright and Georgine Sparks, Welly Dancing, with Robin Laurie compering. Plus appearances by the Daylesford Banner …

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  • Public petition for Melbourne community radio station 3RRR to reinstate the women's programme "Give Men-a-Pause", 1981.

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    [LEBER, Sylvie]

    Public petition for Melbourne community radio station 3RRR to reinstate the women’s programme “Give Men-a-Pause”, 1981.

    [Melbourne : s.n., 1981]. Foolscap folio sheet, Xerox-printed recto only; old horizontal fold; fine condition. The 3RRR women’s programme “Give Men-a-Pause” ran from 1979-1981. It was founded and hosted by Sylvie Leber, a Melbourne women’s rights activist who, among many other activities, was involved in the creation of Victoria’s first rape crisis centre and the …

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  • [MELBOURNE] Lesbian violence phone-in, early December 1990.

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    LESBIAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION GROUP (Melbourne)

    [MELBOURNE] Lesbian violence phone-in, early December 1990.

    Lesbian violence is not on!! … The violence has to stop. [Melbourne] : Lesbian Domestic Violence Action Group, [1990]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; faint original folds, some light marks. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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  • Tom of Finland. The official life and work of a gay hero

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    HOOVEN, F. Valentine

    Tom of Finland. The official life and work of a gay hero

    New York : Abrams, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 296, illustrated. New copy. Tuoko Laaksonen, also known as Tom of Finland (1920-1991), was an iconic and provocative artist who rose to cult status in the international gay community and beyond for his work celebrating gay archetypes and masculinity during a time when being gay was …

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  • Business card of the Long Beach Bar, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, c.1965.

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    Business card of the Long Beach Bar, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, c.1965.

    [Kaohsiung, Taiwan : s.n., c.1965]. White card, 60 x 98 mm, printed recto in red, green and blue: ‘Welcome to Long Beach Air Conditioned Bar. No. 68 Chi Shian 3rd Road Kaohsiung Taiwan’ with illustration of a hostess, and verso in black: ‘In Bounds No. 78. 1. Welcome to our bar have a wonderfeul [sic] …

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  • [FIRST SYDNEY MARDI GRAS]. Gay Community News. Vol. 6, No. 2, July 29 1978.

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    BURNS, Richard; ROFES, Eric and MARKO, Jim (editors)

    [FIRST SYDNEY MARDI GRAS]. Gay Community News. Vol. 6, No. 2, July 29 1978.

    Boston : Gay Community News, 1978. Tabloid newspaper, folded as issued, pp. 16, illustrated. The Gay Community News (1973 – 1999) was Boston’s leading queer newspaper, focussed on political rather than social affairs. The lead article (with a photograph of NSW Premier Neville Wran), titled ’53 arrested, scores injured in Sydney. Violence, arrests mar celebration in Australia’ …

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  • Young Mungo (signed limited edition first edition)

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    STUART, Douglas

    Young Mungo (signed limited edition first edition)

    London : Picador, 2022. First U.K. edition. Octavo, lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (very light handling wear), pp. [viii]; 390; (1), a fine copy. The limited edition of the first U.K. edition of the author’s second novel, with publisher’s blind stamped limitation statement, numbered 243 of 250 copies, signed by the author. ‘From Booker-prize winner …

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  • Five studio portraits of comedian and female impersonator Gilbert Saroney (in and out of character). Sydney, 1880.

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    RIISFELDT, Emil

    Five studio portraits of comedian and female impersonator Gilbert Saroney (in and out of character). Sydney, 1880.

    Five albumen print photographs, in uniform carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mounts); verso with the imprint of ‘Palace Photographic. E. Riisfeldt, Artist Photographer. Hordern’s Chambers, 490 George Street, Sydney’; on the verso of one is a fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Saroney’; the prints and mounts are all in excellent condition. Provenance: …

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  • Mabel : Australian feminist newspaper. No. 1 December 1975.

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    MABEL COLLECTIVE [FIGNER, Vera, ed.]

    Mabel : Australian feminist newspaper. No. 1 December 1975.

    Sydney, N.S.W. : Mabel Collective, 1975. Folio newspaper, 24 pp, illustrated; original central horizontal fold, front page foxed, otherwise very good. Eight issues of Mabel were published between Dec. 1975 and Sept. 1977. A history of the newspaper by Paula J. Byrne, Mabelled, appeared in Hecate, v.22, no.2, 1996, p.87-100.

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  • Carte de visite photograph of a French risqué print, published and sold in Melbourne around 1870.

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    W. J. NORMAN (publisher / retailer)

    Carte de visite photograph of a French risqué print, published and sold in Melbourne around 1870.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘W. J. Norman, Looking Glass & Picture Frame Manufacturer, 94 & 170 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. Looking Glasses Re-silvered, Frames Re-gilded. Great variety of Photographs’; some very light foxing to the print, more pronounced on the verso. We have previously …

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  • The platonic blow

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    AUDEN, W. H. (1907 - 1973)

    The platonic blow

    New York : the Fuck You Press, 1965. First separate edition. Quarto, printed wrappers, pp. 12. Limited to 300 copies, 10 additional deluxe editons in three variations also printed. The platonic blow, sometimes known as The gobble poem, is an gay erotic poem which graphically describes an act of oral sex between two young men. Originally composed in 1948, …

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  • One : the homosexual magazine

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    REID, Ann Carll (editor)

    One : the homosexual magazine

    Los Angeles : One, Incorporated, 1957. Octavo, illustrated wrappers by Eve Elloree (aka Joan Corbin), date inscribed in pen, pp. 24, illustrated. Scarce. Rare early magazine from the homophile organisation One Inc., founded in 1952. In 1954 the United State Post Office declared the publication obscene, leading to a four year legal battle, which was …

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  • Australian Marriage Equality campaign placard

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    Anon.

    Australian Marriage Equality campaign placard

    [Melbourne?] : 2017. Printed placard with an inverted pink triangle and the word YES, 420 x 295 mm, fine condition. Until 2017, marriage in Australia was defined as “the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life”. Same sex couples were treated as de facto …

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  • Douglas Dean's San Francisco Gaylife '73 - '74

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    DEAN, Douglas (pseudonym for Dean Goodman)

    Douglas Dean’s San Francisco Gaylife ’73 – ’74

    Bars – baths – restaurants – clubs – churches. Make out – a provocative short story by Douglas Dean. Plus photos of the hunkiest guys this side of heaven. San Francisco : Barbary Coast Productions, 1973. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrations (including male nudes), light foxing. Dean Goodman (Douglas Dean Goodman) was a San …

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  • Tom of Finland. Threesome

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    KRIMKO, Stuart et al.

    Tom of Finland. Threesome

    Los Angeles : David Kordansky Gallery, 2022. Quarto, simulated leather with pictorial only, pp. 168, illustrated with Tom of Finland’s homoerotic imagery. Printed in an edition of 1250 copies. ‘Tom of Finland: Threesome is a major new catalogue that documents three exhibitions held at David Kordansky Gallery between 2015 and 2021: Early Work 1944 – …

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  • William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen (deluxe edition with signed archival print)

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    YANG, William et al.

    William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen (deluxe edition with signed archival print)

    Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. New copy. The rare deluxe edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by the artist. Mounted inside the upper board is a mylar sleeve housing a limited edition archival inkjet print Golden Summer 1987 / 2016 …

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