This gift is a celebration of Stella and how important she was for my mental health through that journey. In this house, at least, she is an honorary dogtor. 😉

So excited to read this!

Thank you, it was a real joy to see positivity existed and was shared in the media!

My new research article about Australian audience reactions to Tales of the City in the 1990s has been published. While there were negative reactions, the positive responses far outweighed them! It was exciting to see this moment in our history.

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I hope the forthcoming book (Routledge) will help people better understand production culture, what it takes to get queer stories onscreen, and inform the approaches taken by those entering screen industries in Australia and in other markets to tell queer stories in the future.

This PhD was for me. It was about my passion for - my obsession with - the queer stories we see in television and wanting to know how they got there.

A content warning: these letters feature homophobia and HIV/AIDS stigma as part of the arguments against the inclusion of gay stories in Australian television.

Please see the letters attached to this post.

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There has been a backsliding of LGBTIQ+ support in corporate and public discourse in recent years, and I think it is quite stark how familiar these old debates feel today.

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By request, I am sharing the letters I analysed (with author names redacted, as this was ~30 years ago), as I think it is interesting to see what was included in this mediated form of participatory culture during the 1990s.

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