A busy few weeks are ahead for Auckland's Charlotte Museum, with a series of events celebrating lesbian history. October kicks off at the Mt Albert site with an afternoon tea where the topic "What is Lesbian Heritage?" will be discussed, on 3 October at 2pm. Miriam Saphira will describe the sites around Auckland that are significant for lesbians, particularly the emerging lesbian community of the 1970s and 80s. She will talk about the multiple locations of lesbian clubs, forced by police raids because women were not allowed to hold liquor licenses and clubs weren't economically viable unless they could sell alcohol. The museum's other October events will focus on English lesbian Anne Lister, who lived in the world that Jane Austen wrote about. She kept coded diaries all her life, and their recent translation led to the BBC movie The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister. The museum is screening the movie on Sunday 17 October at 2pm, and the 40-minute BBC documentary Revealing Anne Lister at its usual Lessie Tunes night on Friday October 29 at 5.30pm. Events include finger food and drinks; entry to all is by koha. You can find more information here
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Monday, 27th September 2010 - 10:04am