GAY SOLIDARITY GROUP (SYDNEY), LATER LESBIAN AND GAY SOLIDARITY GROUP (SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE)

BANNERS, POSTERS, SIGNS, FLYERS AND OTHER ACTIVIST PUBLICITY ITEMS INCLUDING SOME FROM OTHER ORGANISATIONS

PART 1 - 1970 to 1989

1972

Sunday 12 November 1972: - placards held by two protesters at gay liberation demonstration outside St Clements Anglican church in Mosman (Sydney) after sacking of church secretary for coming out gay on ABC television.

Sunday morning, 12 November 1972, outside St Clements Anglican church in Mosman, a North Shore suburb of Sydney.

The Occasion: a Gay Liberation and Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP) protest following the sacking of the church Secretary, Peter Bonsall-Boone, "because he involved the church in controversy". He had appeared openly on the Australian national television programme, "Chequerboard" with his same-sex lover and two lesbians on 31 October 1972. (Photo by unknown phtographer)

Ken Lovett is bottom left, all other people not yet identified.

1978

GSG Meetings, Drop the Charges, Abusive Letters - the above three posters at a Fund-raising Dance in Sydney

Gay Solidarity on 4 November

1979

Gay Solidarity Week - Poster designed by Chips Mackinolty SHIFT

SHIFT - a 2-act play about a woman coming to terms with her lesbianism

Left: Publicising GSG Newtown Centre Friday Discussions. Right: Sydney Fundraiser for GSG ongoing public campaign.

1979 Planning Meetings

1980

Outrageous! Gay Mardi Gras

National Summer Offensive March

National Summer Offensive (Sydney)

National Conference 6 (Sydney)

CONCERT for Gay Rights - National Summer Offensive GAY DANCE, Sydney

1981

Be Prepared (Sydney)

STONEWALL 1981 PROGRAMME FRONTPIECE, SYDNEY

Gay and Lesbian Films for Stonewall Week, 1981, Sydney

1982

Left: Lesbians and Gays contest anti-gay visit of Jerry Falwell to Australia. Right: Some Sticker Slogans

1983

COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT Gay Mardi Gras 1983 Sydney

Our Lives, Our Selves

Combined Campus Gay Party 1983, University of Melbourne

March for Lesbian/Gay Freedom - Parramatta

Gay Embassy Caravan leading street march on Parliament House in Sydney, Tuesday night, 20 September 1983, after being parked outside Premier Neville Wran's house in Woollahra for 3 weeks. Photo: Kendall Lovett

Gay Embassy Banner, (closeup) being carried in the street march to Parliament House, Sydney, for a rally outside to demand change to anomalies in NSW law on Homosexuality, Tuesday night, 20 September 1983. The banner had hung on one side of the gay embassy caravan parked outside NSW Premier Wran's house in Woollahra for three weeks previously. Photo: Kendall Lovett

1984

Stonewall Summer Dance (Melbourne)

ORAL RICHARDS - Gay and Lesbian Crusade, 1984, Sydney (photo on poster taken by Jeffrey Saynor who died 10 October 2008)

1985

WOMEN'S DAY 9 March (Sydney)

Sydney Disarmament and Peace March

1986

Fundraiser for Annual Sydney Gay Mardi Gras

1986-7

GAY WAVES (Sydney) CIRCA 1986-7

1987

PORCAMADONNA on stage in Sydney with his aliases

A BORN-AGAIN CHRISTMAS with Oral Richards & Porca Madonna, December 1987, Sydney

1988

1989

SEE THE QUILT and understand. The Quilt Project, 1989, Sydney

Rev. Fred Nile Marches into Oxford Street to Cleanse Sydney of Homosexuality

Sharpeville Day Rally

International Lesbian and Gay Association 11th Annual Conference, Vienna 1989, Austria

Banners, Posters, Signs, Part 2 - 1990 to PRESENT

LESBIAN & GAY SOLIDARITY PAGE

Mannie & Kendall Present: LESBIAN AND GAY SOLIDARITY ACTIVISMS

Mannie De Saxe also has a personal web site, which may be found by clicking on the link: RED JOS: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM

Mannie's blogs may be accessed by clicking on to the following links:
MannieBlog (from 1 August 2003 to 31 December 2005)

Activist Kicks Backs - Blognow archive re-housed - 2005-2009

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This page updated 17 MAY 2011 and again on 15 AUGUST 2017

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