Collection 4: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras further records, 1989-1996

MLMSS 9048
MLOH 752

sub-fonds

1989-1996

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Moving Images, Musical Sound Recordings, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

153670

4.95 metres of textual material (30 boxes)

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was born out of the gay protests of the 1970s. The first Mardi Gras was held on 24 June 1978 to mark the ninth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York in 1969. By the 1990s it had become an annual event of national significance with an international reputation. It takes the form of a month-long festival culminating in a street parade followed by a party.

Reference: A History of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras by Graham Carbery, 1995.

The collection comprises records relating to the 1990-1996 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festivals, including performances, visual arts events, the Mardi Gras parades, fair days and film festivals. Material includes correspondence, notes, budgets, contracts, newscuttings, flyers, and artists’ and performers’ applications, including media releases, colour and black & white photographs and slides, video recordings and sound recordings.


BOX 1
Records concerning the 1990-1991 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festivals, being general correspondence, notes, Letters of Agreement, media releases, flyers etc., concerning The Bell Shakespeare Company, theatrical employers permits, Actors Equity, Opera Gastronomica; 1989-1991

BOX 2
General correspondence and notes concerning the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival events and performances, including Sleaze 90, The Gay Divorcee, Vital Statistix, and The Sum of Us; 1990-1993
Photocopy of ‘Management report to Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras from SKOAP’ (Special kinds of artists projects), 1990

BOX 3
General correspondence and notes; festival budgets; photocopies of newscuttings; 1990-1991; Mardi Gras Parade notes, 1992

BOXES 4-5
Records concerning the 1991 festival, being correspondence, notes and contracts concerning performances, Fair Day, sporting events, publicity material including a publicity report, newscuttings, flyers etc., 1991
Festival Committee meetings minutes and agendas, 1989-1991

BOXES 6-7
Records concerning the 1992 festival, being correspondence, notes, contracts, flyers, proposals, newscuttings, etc., concerning Robyn Tyler; Lynne Lavner; art exhibitions, including Out Art and The Art of Mardi Gras; sporting events; umbrella events; 1991-1992

BOX 8
Records concerning the 1992 festival, being correspondence, notes, budgets, reports, and artists’ promotional material including media releases, flyers and black & white photographs. Material relates to Fair Day, festival budgets, cabaret, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir, Betty, Dance C 1991-1992

BOX 9
Records concerning the 1992 festival, being correspondence, notes, contracts, reports, and artists’ promotional material including media releases, flyers and black & white photographs. Material relates to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; Canberra Gaze proposal; forums and grants; Hors de Combat; The Lady is a C More Intimacies; and Michael Kearns 1991-1992

BOX 10
Records concerning the 1993 festival, being correspondence, contracts, notes etc., concerning Fair Day; Film Festival; the Arts Council of Australia; performances by Yellow Roses, Patrick Lee, and Lynn Lavner; 1992-1993

BOXES 11-12
Festival proposals, being ‘1993 Festival Proposal’ forms, correspondence and artists’ promotional material including media releases, flyers and black & white photographs, 1992-1993

BOX 13
Records concerning the 1993 festival, being correspondence, notes, budgets, reports, and artists’ promotional material including media releases, flyers and black & white photographs. Material relates to Fred and Ginger; minutes and agendas of Festival Committee meetings, 1992-1993; Queer Screen; budgets; festival launch; artistic reports; In the Pink Theatre Company playreadings; Miracle of the Rose; cabaret; Yellow Roses; 1992-1993

BOX 14
Records concerning the 1993 festival, being correspondence, contracts, notes and artists’ promotional material including media releases, flyers and black & white photographs. Material relates to Lynn Lavner; Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir; Exotic Fortunes; festival contracts; Teen Sex Scandal; Tim Miller; the ’93 Guide; visual arts; 1992-1993

BOX 15
Records concerning the 1993 and 1994 festivals, being correspondence, notes, artists’ promotional material including media releases, flyers and black & white photographs. Material relates to the 1993 festival guide including artists’ biographies, colour slides, negatives, colour and black & white photographs; 1992-1993
Notes and ephemera including invitations and flyers concerning the 1994 festival; 1993-1994

BOXES 16-18
Records concerning accepted and declined proposals for the 1994 festival, being correspondence, notes, 1994 Festival Proposal forms, and artists’ promotional material including media releases, flyers and black & white photographs, 1993-1994

BOX 19
Records concerning the 1995 festival, being correspondence, notes, contracts and artists’ promotional material including media releases, flyers and colour and black & white photographs relating to Club Bent; community events; Douglas Crimp; Death of Peter Pan; Festival launch at the Museum of Contemporary Art; 1994-1995

BOX 20
Records concerning the 1995 Festival, being correspondence, notes, contracts and artists’ promotional material including media releases, flyers and colour and black & white photographs relating to Lance Gries; Jeffrey; Queer Fringe; Queer Lit; Queer Screen; sports festival; and The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir; 1994-1995

BOX 21
Records concerning the 1995 Festival, being correspondence, notes, contracts and artists’ promotional material including media releases, flyers and colour and black & white photographs relating to Toxic Girls, Pink Eyes, Ticketek, Tongues of Stone; 1994-1995

BOX 22
Records concerning the 1995 festival, being general budgets, festival reports, correspondence and notes relating to the opening night and visual arts; 1994-1995

BOX 23
Records concerning the 1995 festival, being correspondence, notes and promotional material relating to visual arts, venues, and Out Art; 1994-1995

BOXES 24-25
Visual arts funded and non-funded applications for the 1995 festival, being correspondence, application forms and applicants’ promotional material including media releases and flyers, colour and black & white photographs; 1994-1995

BOXES 26-30
Performing arts declined applications for funding for the 1996 Festival, being correspondence, application forms and applicants’ promotional material including media releases, flyers, playscripts, colour slides and black & white photographs; 1994-1996

VIDEO RECORDINGS
Video cassettes sent to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras by various performers, ca. 1990-1995
1. Safe sex advertisements, Stretching it Wider productions VT (3168)
2. Tales of Helpmann (VT 3169)
3. Flirtations (VT 3170)
4. Beauty kit, shoe, manamana (VT 3171)
5. Kevin Klehr (VT 3172)
6. Mehmet Sander dance company (VT 3173)
7. SheBoom, Dance with the devils (VT 3174)
8. Dance Exchange, trailer, Russell Dumas (VT 3175)
9. Barbara Karpinski, Star struck slut (VT 3176)
10. Barbara Karpinski, Liquor, guns and ammo (VT 3177)
11. What have you done to me etc... (VT 3178)


SOUND RECORDINGS - MLOH 752
Audiocassettes sent to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras by various performers, ca. 1992-1995

1. Maree Sheehan: To be Free, 1994
2. Maree Sheehan: To be Free, 1994
3. Maree Sheehan: Dare to be Different, 1992
4. The Big Easy: Big is Best, 1995
5. Mama Hoho, 1995
6. SheBoom: Glasgow 6 November 1994
7. Cindy Ryan demos, 1995
8. The Flirtations Live: Out on the Road, 1992
9. Hanna Schotten: One of us is Me, 1994
10. Homo Phonics: various artists, no date
11. Women’s Unplugged CD Project, 1994
12. The Woman in the Moon, 1993
13. Songs from the Woman in the Moon, 1994
14. Colin Bright, no date
15. Azucar Y Crema: Live at the 4th annual Mujercanto, San Antonio, Texas, 1994

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