Queer objects delights and provokes in its expansive offering of moments, materials, images and texts that capture the presence of queer identities across time and space. Richly illustrated and exceptionally well-informed its authors bring familiar and unfamiliar subjects to life in new and exciting ways. A must for any respectable and unrespectable queer library.
Christopher Breward, National Galleries of Scotland
The queer angel of history has brought us from New Zealand this remarkable book of objects that have aroused memories involuntary and voluntary, painful and uplifting, individual and communal. A deeply moving exploration of history, memory, and queerness.
Jeffrey Escoffier, author of American Homo: Community and Perversity
Chris Brickell is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Otago
Judith Collard is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago
1 The Queerness of Objects - Chris Brickell and Judith Collard
2 The First Gay Kiss? - Richard Bruce Parkinson
3 Tutanekais Flute - Paerau Warbrick
4 Faces of Queer-Aboriginality - Dino Hodge
5 Pasting Together an Identity - Helen Pausacker
6 The Strapless Satchel - Jeffrey Vaughan
7 The Queering of Action Man - Greg Minnisale
8 Reading Two Gay Histories - Ben Anderson-Nathe
9 Fragments of Sappho - Chris Brickell
10 New World Slaverys Queer Object - Carina Pasquesi
11 Fredas Mountaineering Memoir - Chris Brickell
12 Teddys Illustrated Letter - Rachel Hope Cleaves
13 Four Saints in Three Acts - Tirza True Latimer
14 Donald Friends Life in Letters - Tim Roberts
15 Dear Dawn, Can I Hold You? - Lauren Britton
16 A Gay Magazine in Communist Poland - Lukasz Szulc
17 The Cunt Coloring Book - Margo Hobbs
18 Henrys Albums - Barry Reay
19 Sammys Stud File - Barry Reay
20 The Proverbial Lavendar Dildo - Erica Rand
21 Amos Chair - Barry Reay
22 Cruising Masculine Spaces - Judith Collard
23 The Stuff of Cruising - John Howard
24 Monuments - Peter Sherlock
25 The Warren Cup - Chris Brickell
26 Robert Gants Shoes - Chris Brickell
27 Oscars Photograph? - Neil Bartlett
28 Saint Sebastian - Chris Brickell
29 Tender Buttons - Jane Trengrove
30 The Paintings of Lois White - Judith Collard
31 The L Word Quilt - Amanda Littauer and Diane Johns
32 The Queen of Polka Holes - Katsuhiko Suganuma
33 Queer Dogs - Heike Bauer
34 Our Own Dear House - Bev Roberts
35 An Attic Apartment - Chris Brickell
36 The Rotary Dial Telephone - Matt Cook
37 C734 - Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed
38 Saint Eugenias Relics - Robert Mills
39 A Tram Ticket, an Egyptian and an Englishman - Robert Aldrich
40 To My Friend from His Friend - Graham Willett
41The Story of a Locket - Peter Wells
42 Till We Meet Again - Jo Campbell
43 A Set of Wedding Photos - Elise Chenier
44 Carl Wittman and the AIDS Quilt - Amanda Littauer and Diane Johns
45 Exhibit A: The Powder Puff - Wayne Murdoch
46 Neil McConaghys Penile Plethysmograph - Kate Davison
47 A Military Discharge Certificate - Shirleene Robinson
48 The Moral Majority is Neither - Timothy Willem Jones
49 Devotional Objects - Melissa M. Wilcox
50 Political Buttons - Katherine A. Hermes
51 Plastic Politics - James Burford, Kath Khangpiboon and Jutathorn Pravattiyagul
52 Bloomers and Monocles - Nikki Sullivan and Craig Middleton
53 A Lesbian Waistcoat - Nadia Gush
54 Lesbian Lipstick - Reina Lewis
55 Punk Jacket - Marcus Bunyan
56 The Australian Speedo - Yorick Smaal
57 The Worlds First Gay Travel Guide - Daniel Brandl-Beck
58 Keiths Slides - Chris Brickell
59 John Hunters Make-up Box - Chris Brickell
60 The Portable Lesbian Party - Alison Oram
61 The Rangers Motorclub Flag - Tim Roberts
62 The Disco Ball and the DJ - Philip Hughes
63 Queer Smartphones - Simon Clay