Uranian Society Archive
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History Walk |
Theme |
Tour Guide |
2002 October | Sex and Death ... in the city's south-west | Dr Gertrude Glossip |
2001 October | From Lampshades to Liberation: The 'Pink Files' Promenade | Dr Gertrude Glossip |
2000 October | Against the Peace of Our Lady The Queen | Dr Gertrude Glossip |
1999 November | Sacred & Secular | Dr Gertrude Glossip |
1998 November | West Side Stories | Gertrude Glossip |
1997 November | Sex Crimes, Shocks and Scandals | Mrs Gertrude Glossip (OBE) |
Forum |
Keynote Paper |
Presenter |
2002 December | 14th Annual Xmas Soiree | Committee Members and Guests |
2002 October | Private Probings and Salacious Snoopings | John Poynter |
2002 September | Bert's Back Yard | Ian Purcell |
2002 August | A Cultural Feast | Shimmer Chernobyl (Compere) |
2002 July | The Importance of Being Irish Adelaide's Oscar Wilde |
Geoff Hall and Stephen Nolan Ian Purcell |
2002 June | A Gay Holocaust? | Robert Hughes |
2002 May | Dr Gertrude Glossip's Guide to Heterosexuality A Guide to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2002 |
Dr Gerturde Glossip Frank Ford |
2002 April | Common Ground | Video |
2002 March | Feat of Endurance Simply Divine |
Bart van der Wel David Hilliard |
2001 December | 'Life is a Banquet!' - a tribute to Patrick Dennis | Frank Ford, Brian Knott, Corey McMahon, Ian Purcell. |
2001 October | Gay Trek: The Next Generation | Craig Johnston |
2001 September | Gay Cuba | Robert Hughes |
2001 August | The Judge and Mr Jury Was Ern Malley gay? |
Ian Purcell Brian Knott, Ian Purcell and Corey McMahon |
2001 July | "Feast or Famine?" - a panel discussion about gay culture and the performing arts in Adelaide | Luke Ashby, Geoff Crowhurst, Luke Cutler, Geoff Revell, James Winter and Ian Purcell. |
2001 June | "That was Then, This is Now" - Stonewall Celebration | Ian Purcell, George Valiotis and Will Sergeant |
2001 May | The Amazing Adventures of Adele Gaye Histoire | Ian Purcell and Corey McMahon |
2001 April | Club Lavender | Corey McMahon, Ian Purcell, Rebel Rogers, Will Sergeant and Frank Ford |
2001 March | Queer as Folk | Video and discussion |
2000 December | The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde | Committee members and guests |
2000 October | Exploding the Myths of Gay Activism | Rodney Croome |
2000 September | The Bloomsbury Buggers | Will Sergeant |
2000 August | Sex is .... | Film and discussion |
2000 July | Gay Anglo-Catholicism: the story of High Church Anglicans and the Gay Subculture | David Hilliard |
2000 June | Gay Changes: The Adelaide Homosexual Alliance and the rise of the gay community | Graham Willett |
2000 May | Penetrating the anus: homoeroticism and football | Terry Evans |
2000 April | The lives of Frank O'Hara and James
Merrill. Was Adam Lindsay Gordon Gay? |
Rikki Wilde Ian Purcell |
2000 March | Stephen Sondheim | Brian Knott and Ian Purcell |
1999 December | Noel Soiree (Private Lives, Act 3) | Nicholas Bishop, Brian Knott, Keith Mason, Corey McMahon,Will Sergeant, Ian Purcell |
1999 October | Did We Kill "The Family" | Kenton Miller |
1999 September | Queen vs Nation | Marcus Beresford |
1999 August | The Situation in Zimbabwe | Bart van der Wel |
1999 July | Postmodernism: a spiritual perspective | Barry Rosenzweig |
1999 June | The Origins of Homosexual Politics in Australia | Dr Graham Willet |
1999 May | The Uniting Church: what to do about gays and lesbians | Malcolm Cowan |
1999 April | Queer Sounds on Australian Pop Charts (1954-1974) | Rikki Wilde |
1999 March | The Best of British - Noel Coward tribute | Video and reviews |
1998 December | Seasonal Soiree - 10th Anniversary | Committee members and guests |
1998 October | The Pink Files (A Readers Theatre Presentation) | Nicholas Bishop, Frank Ford, Ian Purcell, Will Sergeant, Dale Paul |
1998 September | The 1998 Gay Games | Will Sergeant and Robin Higgs |
1998 August | Searching for the Secret Garden: post-modern aspects of horticulture | Barry Rosenzweig |
1998 July | Four Gay Chinas | Bart van der Wel |
1998 June | The Times of Harvey Milk | Video and discussion |
1998 May | From the Sublime to Divine | Paul Marsh and Ian Purcell |
1998 April | The gay life and tragic death of Hart Crane | Rikki Wilde |
1998 March | Mardi Gras: Then and Now | Will Sergeant |
1997 December | A Long Day's Journey into Silent Night | Committee members and guests |
1997 October | Undressing Crossdressing: the cultural complexities of men in frocks | Dr David Murray |
1997 September | Steam Heat: gay men and saunas | Committee Members |
1997 August | From "Boys in the Band" to "Love! Valour! Compassion!" | Brian Knott, Rod Lewis, Corey McMahon, Kenton Miller, Ian Purcell and Will Sergeant |
1997 July | Gay Composers and Performers In search of Lee's Trail |
Robin Higgs Will Sergeant |
1997 June | Schiller's "Before Stonewall" | Video and discussion |
1997 May | Gay romantic poetry | Paul Marsh |
1997 April | Gay Berlin | Roger Pahl, Bart van der Wel |
1997 March | The Secrets of a Gay Cartoonist | Kenton Penley Miller |
1996 December | Xmas Soiree | Committee members and guests |
1996 October | Zero Patience | Video and discussion |
1996 September | Reading of Peter Kenna's "Mates" | Brian Knott, Corey McMahon, Kenton Miller and Ian Purcell |
1996 August | Celluloid Closet | Video and discussion |
1996 July | "Nude Penises" | Barry Rosenweig |
1996 June | Anthony Perkins and Allen Ginsberg Franny, Queen of Provincetown |
Murray Couch Brian Knott, John Keal, Jack O'Connor |
1996 May | Montgomery Clift James Dean - Queen? |
Murray Couch Nicholas Bishop |
1996 April | OUT: Stories of lesbian and gay youth | Video and discussion |
1996 March | The 'Regeneration' Trilogy | Murray Couch |
1995 December | Christmas Bash | Committee members and guests |
1995 October | Mapplethorpe and the American Dream | Ian Fraser |
1995 September | Law Reform in South Australia (part 2) | Roger Knight and David Hilliard |
1995 August | Father of Frankenstein | Kenton Miller |
1995 July | Derek Jarman | Murray Couch |
1995 June | The significance of Oscar Wilde in the 1990s. A reading of extracts from "The Importance of Being Earnest" |
Murray Couch. J Keal, N Bishop, M Couch, B Knott, W Sergeant, K Mason |
1995 May | Holy Warfare: Sydney Anglicans vs the gay community | David Hilliard |
1995 April | Regulating Desire / Desiring Regulation | Blye Frank and James Oulton |
1995 March | Mardi Gras 1995: What We Didn't Get To See On The ABC | Will Sergeant and Ian Purcell |
1994 December | Xmas Meeting | Committee members and guests |
1994 October | "Poof Positive" | John Keal |
1994 September | Boys In Blue | Ian Purcell |
1994 August | Edward Carpenter: A retrospective | Will Sergeant |
1994 July | Gay Games IV: Stonewall 25 | Gary Altschwager, Ian Purcell |
1994 June | Pasolini: His life and works Who killed Sal Mineo? |
Nick Gill Brian Knott |
1994 May | Genet The Bordellos of le Belle epoch |
Rikki Wilde Barry Rosenzweig |
1994 April | An Evening With the Sisters | Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence |
1994 March | Mardi Gras 1994 | Ian, Francis and Will |
1993 December | A Celebration of Things Gay & Oz | Ian Purcell, Brian Knott, Tim Reeves |
1993 October | Underground Sex Learning to Look at Men |
Murray Couch Murray Couch |
1993 September | The Life and Times of Bert Edwards, 1888-1963 | David Hilliard |
1993 August | "Remembrance of Things Past" - the life and times of Marcel Proust | Barry Rosenzweig |
1993 July | Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Gay Travel | Brian Bennett, Gary Altschwager, David Tait |
1993 June | A Stonewall Tribute to Drag: Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis and Candy Darling | Ian Purcell, Brian Knott |
1993 May | Dr Duncan: the police, gay law reform & the media | Tim Reeves, Brian Knott, Will Sergeant and Ian Purcell |
1993 April | Missionaries of Universal Joy | The Most Irreverent Mother Abbyss OPI |
1993 March | Oh, What a Feeling! - Mardi Gras '93 | Wayne Garner, Will Sergeant & Ian Purcell |
1992 December | Christmas Special | Committee members and guests |
1992 October | Tertius: a gay man documents his art | Tertius |
1992 September | Doing the Beats | Rikki Wilde |
1992 August | Gay Composers | Robin Higgs |
1992 July | Reading of published poetry Being gay in the Uniting Church |
Tim Reeves Simon Moglia |
1992 June | Stonewall Celebrations | Will Sergeant and Paul Minotti |
1992 May | Twenty Years On | David Hilliard and Roger Knight |
1992 April | Maria Callas, Gay Men and Opera | Barry Rosenzweig |
1992 March | Things remembered: Mardi Gras 1978-1992 Walt Whitman Remembered, 1819-1892. |
Will Sergeant Ian Purcell |
1991 December | Full of life now - a celebration of gay men's poetry: readings from Isherwood, Genet, Auden, Langston Hughes, Plato and others | Paul Flanagan, Brian Knott, Stephen Mitchell, Kenton Penley and Ian Purcell |
1991 October | Sticky Moments - Julian Clary | Video |
1991 September | Male homosexual identity and subculture in
Adelaide before World War Two. Gays in Society - a discussion and book review |
Ian Purcell Ian Fraser |
1991 August | The Once and Future Queen. From Camelot to Querelle: films of Franco Nero |
Nick Gill Brian Knott |
1991 July | A Cultural Pot-Pouri | Craig Franklin, Brian Knott and Ian Purcell |
1991 June | Coming Out Under Fire: Gays in World War II | Gary Wotherspoon, Ian Purcell and Will Sergeant |
1991 May | American Graffiti | Rikki Wilde and John Girdwood |
1991 April | "The Way We Live Now" - play reading | Ian Purcell, Paul Flannagan, Stephen Mitchell, Kenton Penley, Brian Knott |
1991 March | The Decriminalisation of Homosexuality in South Australia, 1972 - 1975 | Malcolm Cowan |
1991 February | Joe Orton | Video and discussion |
1990 December | Gay writings on Christmas | Ian Purcell and Wayne Garner |
1990 October | Gay Games 1990 | Michael Edwards |
1990 September | 'AIDS Memoir' | Maria Chiarolli |
1990 August | Readings by local gay writers | Jim Hyde, Kenton Penley, Mikol Furneau, Bill Pearce, Wayne Garner |
1990 July | DV8 Physical Theatre New Developments in the Publishing of Gay Books |
Video Greg Mackie |
1990 June | An Overview of British Gay Culture | David Callahan |
1990 May | Sex Crimes, Shocks & Scandals - male homosexuality in post-war Adelaide, 1945-1955 | John Lee |
1990 April | Gay Fiction for Teenagers | Wayne Garner |
1990 March | A Tribute to the Camp Genius of Patrick Dennis | Will Sergeant |
1989 October | The Life and Times of Bert Edwards | John Lee |
1989 September | Religion and homosexual sub-culture | David Hilliard |
1989 August | Publishing gay books | Greg Mackie |
1989 July | D. H. Lawrence and homosexuality | Peter Harding |
1989 June | Malone - the Gay Gatsby? | Ian Purcell |
1989 May | Police and media homophobia: deconstructing "The Family" | Kenton Penley |
1989 April | Lampshades and Law Reform: Researching Adelaide's Gay History | John Lee |
The Pink Files |
Venue |
Format |
1999 November | Radio Theatre, RMIT, Melbourne | Readers Theatre Presentation |
1999 October | Health In Difference 3, Hyatt Adelaide | Readers Theatre Presentation |
1999 May | Little Theatre, Adelaide University | Readers Theatre Presentation |
1998 October | Lion Theatre, Adelaide | Readers Theatre Presentation |
Special Event |
Activity |
Location |
1993 October | Day Trip to Urania | Urania |
1989 June | Stonewall Party | St. John's Hall, Halifax Street |