File 03: Robert French interviews and photograph by Scott McKinnon

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20 April 2022-22 April 2022

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories, Graphic Materials, Photographs

9669371

3 audio files (8 hr., 28 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
1 photograph - digital, JPEG, colour

Robert French (he/him) was a member of gay and lesbian campus groups since 1971, but became actively involved in gay politics after the first Mardi Gras in Sydney, New South Wales, 1978. As an archivist, French began to develop policy to collect gay history in Australia.

Scott McKinnon is a historian with a research background in oral history, environmental history and histories of sexuality. McKinnon has been awarded the Oral History Australia Media Award, 2019 and the Nancy Keesing Fellowship at the State Library of New South Wales, 2021. He is the vice president of Sydney's Pride History Group and Oral History New South Wales.

Reference:
Australian Queer Archives. '1978: 9 August-Robert French'. Accessed on 13 April 2023. https://queerarchives.org.au/posts/our-history/9-august-1978-robert-french-begins-to-think-about-gay-history/
La Trobe University. 'Dr Scott McKinnon'. Accessed 14 April 2023. https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/sjmckinnon

ITEM 1
Robert French interview by Scott McKinnon, 20 April 2022

ITEM 2
Robert French interview by Scott McKinnon, 21 April 2022

ITEM 3
Robert French interview by Scott McKinnon, 22 April 2022

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Photograph of Robert French / by Scott McKinnon

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