Queer events
Queer Graduate students get together during semester for film nights and other events. To find out more, subscribe to our email bulletin. To get in touch with the postgrad Queer Officer email queer@gsa.unimelb.edu.au
Past events - 2007
21 September:
Eyecandy/Talkfest 2 - Sexual stereotypes: what can we do with them? Adopt them with pride as they allow us easily-recognisable social positions? Use them for a political purpose? Scorn and bemoan them? What's pop culture doing with queer sexual stereotypes – and is this a good thing?20 September:
Eyecandy/Talkfest 1 - Gay sex then and now:
Links relating to this event:
- The website of Gay Sex in the 70s http://www.gaysexinthe70s.com/
- Article in the Washington Post, An Absorbing Look at a Sexual Revolutionhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030200579.html
8 March: Drinks at Deep Dish Bar, Graduate Centre
20 April: Queer Film and Discussion Night: 'Travelling Sexualities and Queer Globalisation' in the Gryphon Gallery, Graduate Centre. Featured a presentation from PhD student Katsuhiko Suganuma, and the film ‘Cut Sleeve Boys’.
25 May: Poetry reading by Jill Jones and Michael Farrell in the FLMR, Graduate Centre, followed by dinner on Lygon Street.
24 August: Queer Film and Discussion Night II: Freaks in the Family! Featured presentation by PhD student Jonathan Williams and the film 'By Hook or by Crook'