Queer Activist/Historian/Drag Performer
My sexuality was invisible as a youthful, repressed gay man in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I associate invisibility with powerlessness. The process of Coming Out and being a Gay Liberationist in 1973 was empowering. Forever after, I have believed in the power of visibility as a gay man and the importance of being OUT and PROUD about one’s sexuality. I also find appearing and performing as my alter-ego, Dr Gertrude Glossip, empowering.
I believe Feast, Adelaide’s Queer Arts and Cultural Festival, holds a very important place in our Rainbow Community. I have been a participant in every Feast since its inception in 1997.