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Kerryn Phelps and Jackie Stricker at Mardi Gras...

Kerryn Phelps and Jackie Stricker at Mardi Gras 2002

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(C. Moore Hardy Collection: 61192)

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C. Moore Hardy

City of Sydney Archives

Lesbians

While desire and sexual encounters between women have been part of life in Sydney for centuries, their history has been largely unknown until recently. Attitudes to lesbians varied from moral condemnation to medical and psychiatric discourses of disorder, until the political and cultural organisations of lesbian feminism and gay liberation ushered in an era of lesbian pride and a vibrant social and cultural scene.

Gay Lesbian and Transgender

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Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

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Annual parade and festival celebrating gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture.