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Hark the Herald Fairies Shout: Gay Liberation Quire interview
Title:
Hark the Herald Fairies Shout: Gay Liberation Quire interview
NFSA ID
1170599
Year
2010
Courtesy
2SER 107.3
Paul van Reyk
An interview with members of the Gay Liberation Quire broadcast as part of Gaywave's Stonewall Special in 1981.
The clip features the Quire's songs 'Hark the Herald Fairies Shout' and 'God Help You Merry Dykes and Poofs'.
The Quire had their debut performance, singing satirical versions of Christmas carols and other popular songs, at Belmore Park as 1,000 people assembled for the Stonewall March on 27 June 1981.
Image of Neil Fitzgerald and Phil Stevenson at the launch of Hormones or Jeans, the Gay Liberation Quire EP, 1983. Photograph by Paul van Reyk from the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives (www.alga.org.au).
Notes by Beth Taylor
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.