• Title
  Item 1: Christine Dean interview by Holly Zwalf
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  15 November 2022
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9671041
• Physical Description
  3 audio files (2 hr., 17 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Christine Dean recounts her upbringing in quintessential Australian suburbia, her experimentation with cross-dressing as a teenager, taking solace in the art department at high school and in a friendship circle of gay and gender-diverse students. After graduating she began to frequent bars on Oxford Street, Sydney and joined the “Young Gays” group at Sydney Gay Centre, coming out as a gay man to her family.
  
  Dean discusses in detail her sexuality as a transgender woman, her social and medication transition, her observations of hostility towards crossdressers and trans women from the gay male community in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, navigating relationships with straight men, and her recent marriage.
  
  Dean talks about the difficulties in transitioning in her workplace at the National Art School, her specialisation in pink dollar queer fetishization and queer art history, a subject she has pioneered in Australia, the highlights of her career as an artist and the politics behind her unique style.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Forbes Street Studios, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, on 15 November 2022
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Dean, Christine
  
• Subject
  Dean, Christine--Interviews.
  Transgender people--Identity.
  Gender transition--Australia.
  Oxford Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20553185

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