Queen's Land (2026)

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Queen’s Land tells the oft forgotten history of drag, repression and resistance in Queensland’s queer scene during the Joh Bjelke-Petersen dictatorship. With glitter and glamour Destiny Rogers describes the ups and downs of life under Australia’s most conservative police state through the 60s to 80s. Petrified jelly, bribery, and gay bikies. Despite living in “pig city” a community was able to persist. To complement, Sel Dowd provides a history of the activist struggles of the era which inform our ongoing struggles today.

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00:05Joe once announced that there were seven homosexuals in Queensland, which is bullshit of course,

00:11because his police were arresting more than seven men a week for homosexual offences in public toilets.

00:17Keep my voice and head down, you're the soonest o'clock, you can see I'm a freak and I just

00:22want to stream.

00:23In the Jovi Oki-Peterson era, he was in power for 18 years, and that was basically what brought him

00:28down,

00:29was his corruption with nasty housing developers, nasty corporate mates.

00:33No matter what we achieve, these bastards will always be there looking to take it away from us

00:38and deny us the right to an equal share in the community that we live and work in.

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