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Gay pride week
Title : Gay pride week Gay pride week
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Creator : Sergeant, Will (William)
Source : Boiled sweets, no. 4, (October 1973), p. 1
Date of creation : 1973
Format : Magazine
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Description by gay activist, Will Sergeant, of the first Gay Pride Week which was held in South Australia from 8 - 16 September 1973. Events included a press conference, gay pride dance, the planting of 60 pink crosses in the lawn adjacent to the War Memorial and Adelaide's first gay pride march on the morning of Saturday 15 September 1973.
Further reading :
Adelaide University Students' Association. Homosexuality in South Australia : a collection of writings from South Australia Adelaide, S. Aust.: S.A. Branch of the Campaign Against Moral Persecution, 1972
French, Robert. Camping by a billabong : gay and lesbian stories from Australian history Sydney: Blackwattle Press, c1993
Willett, Graham, Living out loud : a history of gay and lesbian activism in Australia, St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2000
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