This thing is really getting somewhere now. I’m a little shell-shocked.
Oh and for those who might have missed it: this is NOT a PhD. It’s a very small Masters thesis. If I ever say I’m doing a PhD I want you all to take me out and get me very drunk until I remember what having fun is like. If I still say I’m doing one in the morning, bash me over the head a bit.
I have lots of bits in my quotes file that I want to build into the text if I can find a spot but I wanted to go through and fix up all the gaps in the current version first.
After I’ve done that, I’m probably going to have to start cutting down… but that’s good, it’s good to edit and refine. Makes for more coherence and less fluff.
Currently missing the following info, so any keen people who want to help, I’ll love you forever!
- In Walking on Water, Anna says something about some sausages called ‘dubreznas’ or something like that. Does anyone know what this is and more importantly how to spell it!?! If I can’t find it, I’m just going to call Tony Ayres, the director, and ask him myself.
- I have Web references to pre-colonial Australian indigenous attitudes to queer people being similar to indigenous American attitudes (ie: the ‘two-spirit’ theory) but no print or even rigorous academic Web references.
- What was the first Australian reference to bisexuals as a vector for HIV transmission to the “straight” community?
- What was the first use of the phrase “men who sleep with men” in Australia? Was it, as I suspect, in an ACON document somewhere? (i’ve e‑mailed them…)