My Giddy Aunt and her sister comedians by Sharon Connolly
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A vivid and original account of the age of vaudeville in Australia and the eccentric women who gave it life. Whip-smart and fabulously funny, the women of vaudeville entertained Australia and challenged ideas of how women should behave. Opening a forgotten case of photographs, Sharon Connolly begins a ...Show more
Night Haunts - A Journey Through the London Night by Sukhdev Sandhu
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
London at night has always been seen as a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is it now as bland and unthreatening as any new town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to find out whether the London night really has been rendered neutral by street lighting and CCTV cameras. His nocturnal f ...Show more
North of the Border: Stories from the A Matter of Time Project by Heather Faulkner
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'I love this state - do not get me wrong. I love Queensland to bits. I don't want to live anywhere else in the world. But at that time we were four million years behind everything else, everyone else.'- LYN FRASER Since the end of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen State government, conditions for LGBTIQ identifie ...Show more
Not Guilty: Queer Stories from a Century of Discrimination by Sue Steve; Elliott Humphries
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Only fifty years ago, sex between men was a crime. The 1967 Sexual Offences Act changed that in part, but it was only the beginning of the long fight for equality in the eyes of the law, in society and in millions of private lives.This vital new oral history - to accompany a Channel 4 documentary of the ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten Years On From the Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies
This is a barn-burning piece of Australian feminist history in the making.MATILDA, BETTER READ THAN DEADThen it was done. After staying silent, I'd had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. ...Show more
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester
$55.00 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
'Hester is a fizzingly brilliant writer' Robert MacFarlane 'Diarmuid Hester's beautifully written psycho-biography explores obscure corners of places as sites of hidden queer histories ... haunted and haunting - totally riveting' Chris Kraus At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloi ...Show more
On Christopher Street - Life, Sex, and Death after Stonewall by Michael Denneny
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
The Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s have been captured in minute detail and rightly memorialized in books, on TV, and in film as pivotal and powerful moments in queer history. Yet what about the moments in between-the tumultuous decade post-Stonewall when the queer community's v ...Show more
On For Young and Old: Australian Intergenerational Radical Lesbian Feminist Anthology by Long Breast Press Ed
$25.00 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir
The contributions in 'On For Young and Old' document a dynamic and revolutionary period of time for radical lesbian feminists and also give some insight into the social, as well as politicals lives of the lesbians involved.
On This Day In History Sh!t Went Down by Fell James
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Sh!t happens. Every day.Mae West was sent to jail for "corrupting the morals of youth" with her first Broadway play. When participation in the Hitler Youth became mandatory in Germany, groups of teen "pirates" rebelled. Muhammad Ali refused to "drop bombs and bullets on brown people" in Vietnam. A dog s ...Show more
On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down: Number 2 by James Fell
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
SH!T HAPPENS. AGAIN.That famous photo of the Loch Ness Monster was faked as an act of revenge against The Daily Mail. Before "Scotty" saved the starship Enterprise a bunch of times, future actor James Doohan stormed the beaches at Normandy to help save the world from Nazis and he got shot to sh!t. Origi ...Show more
One of the Boys - Homosexuality in the Military During World War II, Second Edition by Paul Jackson Jr.; Paul Jackson
$64.99 AUD
Category: History
Using a wide array of sources - including long-closed court martial records, psychiatric and personnel files, unit war diaries, films, and oral histories - Paul Jackson relates the struggle of queer servicemen of all ranks and branches of the Canadian military to fit in to avoid losing their careers and ...Show more