Uranian Society Archive
Click on an Event Date to see the Event Leaflet.
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Forum |
Keynote Paper |
Presenter |
| 2009 September | Gay Summer Camp | Hugh Macindoe and Philipp Elliott |
| 2009 August | Foreign Correspondents | Corey McMahon and Ian Purcell |
| 2009 July | Gay and Christian: the debate continues. A global update. | David Hilliard |
| 2009 June | Adelaide's Emerging Queer Writers & Celebrating 40 years of activism since Stonewall | Paul Bard and Paul Marsh |
| 2009 May | Everything About Gay Travel | Neil Bario and Kenn Ortzen |
| 2009 April | 20th Anniversary Celebration | Committee and Guests |
| 2009 March | Discovering Oscar Wilde | Frank Caspers |
| 2008 December | Christmas Treat | Committee and Guests |
| 2008 October | The Politician and the Rent Boy | Ian Purcell, Daniel Clarke, Daniel G. Taylor |
| 2008 September | Readings by Local Gay Writers | George Canavan, Paul Bard, Rob Parry, Daniel G. Taylor |
| 2008 August | South Australian Living Artist: Harvey Schiller | Peter Jones |
| 2008 July | Presenting Noel Coward | Frank Caspers |
| 2008 June | A History of Marriage | Bart van der Wel |
| 2008 May | Books That Have Influenced Me | Paul Bard |
| 2008 April | Sexual Health for Senior Gay Men | Gay Men's Health |
| 2008 March | "Not Waving, Drowning" screening and discussion | Michael Tower |
| 2007 December | 19th Annual Christmas Party | Committee and Guests |
| 2007 October | A Feast for your Senses | Daniel Clarke and John Poynter |
| 2007 September | My Last 10 Hours With You | Matt Cormack and Sophie Hyde |
| 2007 August | The Who's Who of Gay Literary Heritage | Peter Jones |
| 2007 July | Sexing the Label: Love and Gender in a Queer World | Committee |
| 2007 June | "My Adventures on YouTube" and "Barbary Lane Re-visited" | Ian Purcell |
| 2007 May | Dicks and Decor: Post-war trends in American interior decoration exemplified in gay porn | John Poynter |
| 2007 April | Hadrian & Antinous | Richard Brown |
| 2007 March | JT LeRoy: a mythical creation | Daniel G Taylor |
| 2006 December | 18th Annual Christmas Celebration | Committee and Friends |
| 2006 October | Faerie Tales | Fanny Jacobsen and Daniel G Taylor |
| 2006 September | Its a Gay World | Keith Mason and Ian Purcell |
| 2006 August | A Church at War | David Hilliard |
| 2006 July | The War On Beats | Eric Kuhlmann |
| 2006 June | Stonewall Revisited | Brian Knott and Ian Purcell |
| 2006 May | Australian Stories | Video Presentation |
| 2006 April | In The Arms of Africa | Raphael Nevyn |
| 2006 March | Rock Hudson' Home Movies | Ian Purcell and Brian Knott |
| 2005 December | 17th Annual Uranian Society Christmas Party | Committee and Friends |
| 2005 October | People Like Us in Malaysia | Hugh Macindoe and Philip Elliott |
| 2005 September | Preview of the 2005 Feast Festival | Fanny Jacobsen |
| 2005 August | Homoerotic Screen Classics | Richard Brown |
| 2005 July | Bathing My Songs In Sex | Ian Purcell, Brian Knott, Lachlan Mantell, Kenton Miller and Stephen Nolan |
| 2005 June | Stonewall: The Movie | Video |
| 2005 May | Cabaret Festival | Frank Ford |
| 2005 April | Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos | Rapheal Nevyn |
| 2005 March | Summer, Sex and Men | Hugh Macindoe and Philipp Elliott |
| 2004 December | 16th Annual Uranian Society Christmas Party | Committee and Friends |
| 2004 October |
Gay Pride Gay Symbols |
Hugh Macindoe and Philipp Elliott Glenn Ball |
| 2004 September | Who is Shyam Selvadurai | Peter K Jones |
| 2004 August | Beating the Bishop | Malcolm Cowan |
| 2004 July | Hot from the Can! | Fanny Jacobson |
| 2004 June | Camp Cooks | Brenton Smith |
| 2004 May | Canon John Gray: The Man Who Was Dorian Gray | Raphael Nevyn |
| 2004 April | Henry Scott Tuke and the Uranians | John Poynter |
| 2004 March | The Raven and Gaying the Master | Doug Scotney, Stephen Nolan and Kerry Hailstone |
| 2003 December | Christmas Treat | Committee |
| 2003 October | Brad Fraser & 'The Ugly Man' | Geoff Crowhurst |
| 2003 September | Magnus Hirschfeld: Father of Gay Rights? | Robert Hughes |
| 2003 August | From Oscar Wilde to Gene Robinson: Christianity and Homosexuality since 1900 | David Hilliard |
| 2003 July | Cecil Beaton: Creature of Style | Bryan Johnstone |
| 2003 June | Write-Out | Lex Lindsay, Hugh Macindoe, Robert Moore, Ian Purcell, Daniel G Taylor, Paul Veitch |
| 2003 May | Come to the Cabaret | Frank Ford, Roger Pahl and Ian Purcell |
| 2003 April | Christopher In California | Raphael Nevyn |
| 2003 March | The Archbishop of Canterbury, His Lesbian Wife
& Their 3 Gay Sons: an introduction to the life and times of E. F.
Benson
Same Sex Couples and Law Reform in SA |
Ian Purcell
Matthew Loader |
| 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 |
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History Walk |
Theme |
Tour Guide |
| 2006 November | Gertrude's Grand Promenade | Dr Gertrude Glossip |
| 2005 November | Hello Sailor or Queering the Port | Dr Gertrude Glossip |
| 2004 November | Hurtle or Myrtle? Tales from the Terraces | Dr Gertrude Glossip |
| 2003 October | Queering The Village | Dr Gertrude Glossip |
| 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) |
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Special Event |
Activity |
Location |
| 2003 October | Return to Urania | Urania |
| 1999 November | The Pink Files - Readers Theatre Presentation | Radio Theatre, RMIT, Melbourne |
| 1999 October | The Pink Files - Readers Theatre Presentation | Health In Difference 3, Adelaide |
| 1999 May | The Pink Files - Readers Theatre Presentation | Little Theatre, Adelaide University |
| 1998 October | The Pink Files - Readers Theatre Presentation | Lion Theatre, Adelaide |
| 1993 October | Day Trip to Urania | Urania |
| 1989 June | Stonewall Party | St. John's Hall, Halifax Street |