Order of Perpetual Indulgence, Sydney
  Living History Walk Series Documentary  

SYDNEY CBD HISTORY WALK

  • Part 1
  • Homosexuality amongst convicts
  • Macquarie Place and the story of convicts James and Jeremiah Marney, 1866
  • George Street Gaol and story of the hanging of Chief Officer Alexander Brown, for sodomy, 1828
  • Laing Park toilets, arrest of Daily Telegraph editor Clarence McNaulty, artist Douglas Annand and classical pianist Claudio Arrau in the 1940s and 1950s
  • Wynyard Park and the ''Queer House'' story, 1917
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  • Part 2
  • Darrell Lea Chocolate Shop, George Street (formerly Bellfields Hotel) and ''Salt Meat Alley''
  • the clientele of Madam Pura’s Café, Royal Arcade, George Street, 1930s - 1940s
  • Welsh convict William Williams, 1820s, head cook to the NSW Governor, convicted on several charges of ''unnatural crimes''
  • Theatre Royal and its gay and lesbian following in the early half of the 20th century
  • Australia Hotel, Carlton Hotel and Ushers Hotel in Castlereagh Street, the first known ''gay bars'' 1920s-1950s
  • William Yates, Anglican missionary at St James Church, 1830s
  • Supreme court cases regarding homosexuality late 1700s-1920s
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  • Part 3
  • Hyde Park Barracks, same sex activity and young convicts Thomas Morton and Isaac Stott, 1834
  • Hyde Park and ''beat'' activity 1860s - 1950s
  • St Mary’s Cathedral, Boomerang Street and ''beat activity'' 1960s and 1970s
  • Lesbian criminal Iris Webber, East Sydney / Darlinghurst, 1950s
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    KINGS CROSS & PADDINGTON GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY WALK

  • Part 1
  • El Alamein Fountain, flats in Kings Cross in the 1920s and the rise of a bohemian and homosexual subculture Camp party hostess ''Rose'' in Kings Cross, 1940s
  • Kings Cross’ annual Artists Ball with extract from John Rose’s novel ''Up the Cross'' describing a police raid on a similar 1940s camp ball
  • Some other camp venues in Kings Cross 1960s and 1970s
  • ''Six o’clock swill'' and police surveillance at the Rex Hotel, 1950s -1970s
  • Gay venues Costellos Bar and the ''Barrel Inn'', 1970s
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  • Part 2
  • ''Les Girls'' cabaret venue 1960s - 1990s
  • Queen’s Cross
  • Personal testimonies of 1978 Gay Mardi Gras, police arrests and beginnings of modern Mardi Gras
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  • Part 3
  • Green Park ''wedding chapel'' beat
  • Mother Abbyss gives blessing at the site of the ''Wedding Chapel''
  • ''The Wall'' in Darlinghurst Road as a ''beat'' 1960s - 1980s
  • The Aquarius Club, early 1970s, gay club held in the Jewish Community Hall, extract from journalist John Edwards in ''Nation'', 1970
  • Paddington Town Hall 1970s - 1980s
  • Paddington gentrification, 1960s
  • Enzos Wine Bar and Apollo Bar 1970s
  • Chez Ivy’s Bondi Junction, drag venue 1970s
  • The Rave Room, lesbian club in Bondi Junction, 1970
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    GOLDEN MILE GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY WALK, OXFORD STREET

  • Part 1
  • Paddington Green Hotel, gay bar and bootscooting venue, 1980s
  • Unicorn Hotel, gay bar 1980s
  • Police raid on Club 80, decriminalisation of homosexuality in NSW, 1983
  • Albury Hotel, 1970s onwards
  • Beauchamp Hotel and Lord Beauchamp, homosexual governor of NSW, 1890s
  • Sauna at 253 Oxford Street and extract from journalist Susan Anthony in ''Nation'', 1978
  • Ivy’s Birdcage, first gay bar in Darlinghurst, late 1960s / early 1970s
  • Original Taxi Club and drag scene 1970s
  • ''Scorpion'' scandal sheet, article on ''the Oscar Wildes of Sydney'', possibly referring to Beresford Hotel in 1890s
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  • Part 2
  • Darlinghurst Police Station, arrests and bashings, 1960s & 1970s
  • Purple Onion night club, 1970
  • Cappriccios Nightclub, highly popular drag bar 1970s
  • Jules’ Cabaret nightclub 1970s
  • Ruby’s lesbian bar, 1970s
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  • Part 3
  • Illegal casinos in Oxford street 1960s & 1970s which later became gay bars
  • Tropicana, Flo’s Palace, Palms & Scooters
  • Patches
  • Exchange Hotel and New Romantic fashion, early 1980s
  • Black Ada’s ''Dancing School'', illegal underground gay club, 1940s
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    The walks are each broken into three parts, as broadcast on community radio stations OUT-FM and SER-FM. The producer of these broadcasts has set up a website from which they can be replayed - http://historywalk.tripod.com

    Look in the annual guide to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival to find which walk we are doing this season. We do several other walks as well - "Newtown", "Chappels of Lurve" - as well as our regular Zoo trip.

    Bob Hay's website (mentioned in the broadcasts) is
    http://www.ozemail.com.au/~vombatus/bobhay1.html


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