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Hey queers & weirdos! ☕🎙️

Need a break? Press play on my queer history podcast, Forgotten Queers—sharing forgotten icons, LGBTQ stories, and our queer legacy.

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Solidarity Salon Location: 580 Sydney Rd, Brunswick. Description: Alison Thorne from Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party discusses activism based at their queer, socialist, feminist shopfront Solidarity Salo...

Queer History Podcast: Alison Thorne discusses activism at Solidarity Salon in Brunswick, Melbourne, including organising against the Far-Right. #queerhistory #queerpodcast #merribek #queeractivism #brunswick #solidaritysalon #3CR #queerhistorypodcast #AlisonThorne

Radical queer organising in the 2000s Location: 11 Hope St, Brunswick. Description: In the mid 2000s, the share-houses, squats, studio warehouses and strip clubs of Brunswick were home to a flourishing of radical queer activism emerging o...

Queer history podcast: Radical queer organising in the 2000s. Produced by 3CR for Merri-bek Libraries. #queerhistory #queerhistorypodcast #queerpodcast #queermelbourne #merribek #3CR #queer #brunswick #queeractivism

Pentridge Prison and LGBTQIA+ criminalisation Location: Pentridge Prison, 1 Champ St, Coburg. Description: From the beginning of colonial times queer communities have been targeted, criminalised and imprisoned by the ongoing colonial state. In so...

Queer history podcast: Pentridge Prison and LGBTQIA+ criminalisation. #queerhistory #queerpodcast #lgbtqia #queer #merribek #historypodcast #3CR #queerhistorypodcast #pentridge #coburg #merribek #3CR #queermelbourne

Street violence, beats and resistance Location: Clifton Park, 427 Victoria St, Brunswick. Description: Richard Watts discusses the local activism of Queer Nation after the murder of a gay man at the Clifton Park beat in Brunswick in 1991....

Queer history podcast: Richard Watts reflects on the activism of Queer Nation after the 1991 murder of a gay man at a beat in Brunswick, Melbourne. #queerhistory #queerpodcast #queeractivism #queernation #queerhistorypodcast #3CR #brunswick #merribek #beats #queermelbourne

Orlando Location: Victoria Hotel, 380 Victoria St, Brunswick. Description: Orlando’s Sam Elkin discusses the queer indy disco at the Victoria and Edinburgh Castle hotels and its organising collective’s activi...

Queer history podcast: Orlando queer indy disco, Brunswick, Melbourne. Co-founder Sam Elkin reflects on the popular party in Brunswick at the Victoria and Edinburgh Castle hotels. #queerhistory #queerhistorypodcast #brunswick #merribek #3CR #queerpodcast #queermelbourne #queer #queerparty

Queers against fascism Location: Tyson Street shops. 30 – 56 Tyson Street, Fawkner. Description: Melbourne 1990s saw a neo-Nazi infestation in the inner north, with an increase in racism and homophobic violence.

Queer history podcast: Queers against fascism. Produced by 3CR for Merri-bek Libraries in Melbourne. #queerhistory #queerpodcast #queerhistorypodcast #queeractivism #merribek #lgbtqia #lgbtq #queer #queeractivism #queermelbourne #3CR

Brunswick Tram Depot Location: 807 Sydney Rd, Brunswick. Description: Tram conductor, driver and ticket inspector Stratos Filis discusses the community, friendships and activism at the Brunswick Tram Depot, including duri...

Queer history podcast: Brunswick Tram Depot, community and activism. #queerhistory #queerhistorypodcast #queermelbourne #brunswick #merribek #brunswicktramdepot #queerpodcast #trams #3CR #publictransport #unions

Barb Wire and Brunswick drag Description: Barry Solomon aka Barb Wire performed working-class drag in Brunswick from about 2000 to 2020 with performances at local pubs and the Sydney Rd Festival. Barb also hosted Drag Bingo at Th...

Queer history podcast: Barry Solomon aka Barb Wire performed drag at pubs in Brunswick, Melbourne for 20 years. #queerhistory #queerhistorypodcast #queermelbourne #brunswick #merribek #BarbWire #3CR #queerpodcast #drag