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Writers and artists working in
Australia and
New Zealand have
created a diverse body of contributions to the glbtq cultural heritage. |
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A
farmyard scene by Frances Hodgkins |
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Peter Allen
(1944-1992) was an Australian singer and songwriter who signaled his
homosexuality through his flamboyant persona and the subtexts of many
songs, though he was not out publicly as a gay man. |
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Australian Artists
working in a broad range of media and in a variety of styles find
Australia more hospitable today than in the past. |
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Australian Film
has
experienced an efflorescence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual,
and queer themes in the last decade even though the film industry was
conservative and censorious before the 1970s. |
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Australia
has come to occupy a leading place in gay and lesbian literature in the
past two decades, and
New Zealand
has recently produced some significant gay and lesbian texts. |
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Australian
Television lacks any regular and open discussion of queer issues
and lives despite some important breakthroughs in the depictions of gay
men and lesbians in the past. |
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Leigh Bowery
(1961-1994) became a prominent figure in London as a club host, fashion designer, face about town, and
artists' muse after he moved from his native Australia to England in
1980. He transformed his body into a centerpiece of his performance
art. |
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Sir William Dobell
(1899-1970) is regarded by many as one of Australia's greatest
portrait painters. He created works that are replete with homosexual
subtexts even as he spent his life hiding his sexuality from
conservative
Sydney society. |
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Donald Friend
(1915-1989) was an eccentric Australian artist with wide-ranging
creative talents: a great painter, an exceptional draftsman (especially
of the nude male figure), and a gifted satirical writer. |
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James Gleeson
(b. 1915) is one of Australia's most acclaimed artists. He embraced
surrealism early in his career and has remained committed to it as a
means of exploring and expressing psychological conflicts and
conditions. |
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Agnes Noyes Goodsir
(1864-1939) was an Australian painter who became part of the
legendary lesbian scene in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s; her portraits
of women have an erotic and radical edge. |
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Frances Hodgkins
(1869-1947) was a New Zealand artist who succeeded as a
watercolorist early in her career and later became one of the leading artists of British modernism. |
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New Zealander
Frank
Sargeson (1903-1982) wrote stories and novels about ordinary
men in ordinary circumstances, their plots driven by sexual problems
and antagonisms that obliquely reflect their author's homosexuality. |
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New Zealand Artists
are widely known for diverse artistic production which includes
work by painters, filmmakers, dancers, and singers. For at least
the past two centuries, many gay and lesbian artists have hailed from
this small group of islands. |
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Patrick White
(1912-1990), an Australian Nobel laureate, wrote explicitly about
homosexuality only in his novel "The Twyborn Affair" and his
autobiography "Flaws in the Glass." |
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Photo
Credits: The image of Frances Hodgkins' painting Copyright ©
2003-2004 Clipart.com. |
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