• Title
  Item 1: Jeremy Fisher interview by Bruce Carter
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  28 January 2021
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9673155
• Physical Description
  1 digital sound recording - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Jeremy Fisher recollections cover life across a 60- year period. discusses growing up in Tamworth, New South Wales, his schooling and family life including his involvement in amateur theatre in Tamworth and growing personal awareness of his sexuality. Moving to Sydney in the 1970s to study linguistics at Macquarie University, Fisher came-out as gay, becoming involved in Gay Liberation and left politics on campus.
  
  Fisher talks about his hospitalisation and his expulsion from the Anglican-administered Menzies College at Macquarie University for being open about his sexuality; the "pink ban" by a trade union in solidarity with a gay rights issue, instituted by the New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation (BLF); the impact of the 1978 Gay Mardi Gras and his reflections on changes since the 1970s in the acceptance of LGBTIQ+ people in Australia.
  
  Fisher also talks about his marriage to his long-term partner Lloyd in 2018 following the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, which legalised same-sex marriage in December 2017.
• 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 the State Library of New South Wales, on 28 January 2021
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Fisher, Jeremy, 1954-
  
• Subject
  Fisher, Jeremy, 1954---Interviews.
  Gay men--New South Wales.
  LGBT activism--New South Wales.
  Gay activists--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Same-sex marriage--Australia.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20834799

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