Queer Objects

Chris Brickell is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of OtagoJudith Collard is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago

‘Queer objects delights and provokes in its expansive offering of moments, materials, images and texts that capture the presence of queer identities across time and space. Richly illustrated and exceptionally well-informed its authors bring familiar and unfamiliar subjects to life in new and exciting ways. A must for any respectable and unrespectable queer library.’Christopher Breward, National Galleries of Scotland‘The queer angel of history has brought us from New Zealand this remarkable book of objects that have aroused memories – involuntary and voluntary, painful and uplifting, individual and communal. A deeply moving exploration of history, memory, and queerness.’Jeffrey Escoffier, author of American Homo: Community and Perversity

• 1 The Queerness of Objects - Chris Brickell and Judith Collard2 The First Gay Kiss? - Richard Bruce Parkinson3 Tutanekai’s Flute - Paerau Warbrick4 Faces of Queer-Aboriginality - Dino Hodge5 Pasting Together an Identity - Helen Pausacker6 The Strapless Satchel - Jeffrey Vaughan7 The Queering of Action Man - Greg Minnisale8 Reading Two Gay Histories - Ben Anderson-Nathe9 Fragments of Sappho - Chris Brickell10 New World Slavery’s Queer Object - Carina Pasquesi11 Freda’s Mountaineering Memoir - Chris Brickell12 Teddy’s Illustrated Letter - Rachel Hope Cleaves13 Four Saints in Three Acts - Tirza True Latimer14 Donald Friend’s Life in Letters - Tim Roberts15 Dear Dawn, Can I Hold You? - Lauren Britton16 A Gay Magazine in Communist Poland - Lukasz Szulc17 The Cunt Coloring Book - Margo Hobbs18 Henry’s Albums - Barry Reay19 Sammy’s Stud File - Barry Reay20 The Proverbial Lavendar Dildo - Erica Rand21 Amos’ Chair - Barry Reay22 Cruising Masculine Spaces - Judith Collard23 The Stuff of Cruising - John Howard24 Monuments - Peter Sherlock25 The Warren Cup - Chris Brickell26 Robert Gant’s Shoes - Chris Brickell27 Oscar’s Photograph? - Neil Bartlett28 Saint Sebastian - Chris Brickell29 Tender Buttons - Jane Trengrove30 The Paintings of Lois White - Judith Collard31 The L Word Quilt - Amanda Littauer and Diane Johns32 The Queen of Polka Holes - Katsuhiko Suganuma33 Queer Dogs - Heike Bauer34 Our Own Dear House - Bev Roberts35 An Attic Apartment - Chris Brickell36 The Rotary Dial Telephone - Matt Cook37 C734 - Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed38 Saint Eugenia’s Relics - Robert Mills39 A Tram Ticket, an Egyptian and an Englishman - Robert Aldrich40 To My Friend from His Friend - Graham Willett41The Story of a Locket - Peter Wells42 Till We Meet Again - Jo Campbell43 A Set of Wedding Photos - Elise Chenier44 Carl Wittman and the AIDS Quilt - Amanda Littauer and Diane Johns45 Exhibit A: The Powder Puff - Wayne Murdoch46 Neil McConaghy’s Penile Plethysmograph - Kate Davison47 A Military Discharge Certificate - Shirleene Robinson48 The Moral Majority is Neither - Timothy Willem Jones49 Devotional Objects - Melissa M. Wilcox50 Political Buttons - Katherine A. Hermes51 Plastic Politics - James Burford, Kath Khangpiboon and Jutathorn Pravattiyagul52 Bloomers and Monocles - Nikki Sullivan and Craig Middleton53 A Lesbian Waistcoat - Nadia Gush54 Lesbian Lipstick - Reina Lewis55 Punk Jacket - Marcus Bunyan56 The Australian Speedo - Yorick Smaal57 The World’s First Gay Travel Guide - Daniel Brandl-Beck58 Keith’s Slides - Chris Brickell59 John Hunter’s Make-up Box - Chris Brickell60 The Portable Lesbian Party - Alison Oram61 The Rangers Motorclub Flag - Tim Roberts62 The Disco Ball and the DJ - Philip Hughes63 Queer Smartphones - Simon Clay