Hi everyone. Just before we start this episode, we're going to do the content warnings here this time,

because some of the content warnings apply to the intro as well. So for this episode,

we've got some homophobic slurs, periotypical homophobia and police discrimination against

queer people, including violence and arrests. If any of that sounds like something you'd rather

not listen to, we have plenty of

other content, and you can see us next time instead. But otherwise, on with the show. Hello,

and welcome to Queer's Fact. My name is Eli. I'm Yeret. We are a queer history podcast coming

out on the first and 15th of every month talking about

queer history from around the world and throughout time. Today we have a special guest. What are

you going to be talking to us about, Jesse? Hi guys. The topic I'm going to be talking about today

is an Australian film from 1979 called Witches and Faggots Dykes and Poofters, which is the explanation for the trigger

warning you just heard.

So I just want to start off today with a few acknowledgments.

So a lot of the research I'm talking about comes from work I did while at the University

of Melbourne.

So thank you, Uni-Melp for all that.

Also, as a student, I kind of come out in hives if I don't mention my sources.

So as much as I can, I'll reference verbally if I'm talking about another historian's work,

but if anyone would like a full list of references, I'm sure they can hit you guys up for that.

We can post them on the blog.

Okay, great.

So, Witches and Faggart's Dykes and Poofters is a film that represents a culmination of a bunch of different social and political

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