20 to 31 January 2005
Half concealed by a cloak of respectability was an alternative Melbourne to the one usually associated with the era. It offered camp women and men opportunities for pleasure, for meeting and for living lives not at all as broken, tragic and lonely, as the wider world and posterity assumed.
From the statue of Joan of Arc (that notorious cross-dresser) to Val's coffee shop, the Lobster Pot, Hotel Australia, Myers and Moomba, this exhibition revealed a history that they don't teach at school.