Garry Wotherspoon posters advertising Sydney Gay Liberation dance parties

PXX 80

fonds

27 February 1976 - 28 August 1978

Graphic Materials, Posters

9640716

6 posters (1 folder) - screen prints - 76 x 50 cm

Sydney Uni Gay Lib was a collective formed in 1972 during the early days of the Australian gay rights movement aiming to change society's treatment and views of homosexuals. The group split from Campaign Against Moral Persecution Inc (CAMP Inc.).

The Tin Shed Art Works was an experimental art workshop based at University of Sydney, established in 1969. During the 1970s, Sydney Uni Gay Lib used the Tin Shed for making silk-screen posters and handbills and other visual material for their various events, including political demonstrations and fund-raising dances.

Garry Wotherspoon was an academic of University of Sydney and former New South Wales History Fellow. He was awarded Australia’s Centenary of Federation medal for his work as an academic, researcher, and human rights activist.

References:
Library correspondence file
UNSW Press Ltd. "Garry Wotherspoon". Accessed on 3 February 2022. https://unsw.press/authors/garry-wotherspoon/

This collection comprises of six silk screen printed posters advertising dances held by The University of Sydney's Sydney Gay Lib group throughout 1976. The dances were located at:
1. The Refectory, University of Sydney, 27 February 1976
2. Balmain Town Hall with proceeds to Elsie and Rape crisis centre, 15 April 1976
3. Glebe Town Hall, 3 July 1976
4. Glebe Town Hall, 7 August 1976
5 & 6. Paddington Town Hall, 28 August 1978

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Title devised by cataloguer
Transferred from PXD 1605, 13 November 2023

Signed in pen on verso of item 3
"[1978]" on verso of item 6