In 2022, Australian writer, academic and gay rights campaigner Dennis Altman was interviewed by Robert Reynolds for the National Library's Oral History collection.

To mark WorldPride 2023 and the 45th Anniversary of the Sydney Mardi Gras, the National Library has curated a selection of books on the LGBTQIA+ experience and culture.

See some new photographs in our collection, taken at 2022 Pride events held in Adelaide and Perth.

Floor talk by curator Allister Mills exploring the new collection-in-focus display highlighting William Yang’s photography of Sydney Mardi Gras festivals between 1981 and 2003.

Join distinguished Australian photographer William Yang for a special evening at the Library.

Comics-journalist and cartoonist Sam Wallman presented a lecture on his 2023 Creative Arts Fellowship research into the Pink and Green Bans movement and how it will contribute to a new artwork celebrating the 1970s coalition of blue collar union workers and LGBTIQA+ people.

Use this guide to help find and access resources about the movements that have shaped social and cultural change in Australia.

Have you heard about the Pink Bans of the 1970s? Learn about this little-recorded aspect of Australian history with comics-journalist, cartoonist and 2023 Friends Creative Arts Fellow Sam Wallman.

‘There was abstraction, colour and movement, and a certain innocent joie de vivre.’ – William Yang

Learn about one of Australia's great storytellers and his photography documenting Australia’s most fabulous parade.