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Date(s)
- Bulk: 1974-1994 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
44 parcels
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Greg Weir is a Queensland-based political activist and former employee of the the Australian Labor Party (ALP). In 1976 Weir graduated as a trainee teacher and was denied employment by the Queensland Department of Education because he was a spokesperson for a gay student group he started while studying. This sparked a nationwide campaign which was supported by the Australian Union of Students. In the early 1980s, Weir was employed in the office of the ALP Senator George Georges and was later in employed in the office of the ALP Senator Bryan Burns. He was influential in the peace and anti-nuclear movements of the time and played a role in the development of HIV/AIDS awareness groups. Weir was one of the central organisers of the campaign for gay law reform which culminated in the decriminalisation of male homosexuality in 1990.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Gay issues 1891-1994 : mainstream political and cultural perspective : a comprehensive archive and index / compiled by Greg Weir.
Collection alternatively titled as: Greg Weir Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
From the creator.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Files containing copies of press clippings, minutes of meetings, articles and reports, media releases, submissions, ministerial statements, newsletters, correspondence and ephemera. Compiled by Greg Weir during twenty years of political activism, the collection records the public debate on gay and lesbian issues, homosexual law reform, introduction of anti-discrimination legislation, the growth of gay awareness, AIDS, the links between gay issues and political change. Also vol. 7 contains a small amount of material about the peace movement and the Australian Labor Party. Weir's comprehensive indexes to the files are bound in a separate volume.
Accompanied by 184 35mm slides, depicting posters collected by Weir over approximately 25 years, which relate to rallies, events and other activities related to his interests. Also folder containing 3.5inch floppy discs with WordPerfect files of indexes.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The papers have been arranged into 25 sections or volumes by Weir, with a comprehensive index bound separately. Within each volume, documents are filed in chronological order and allocated a number. For example, Document 303-23 means Document 303 in 23rd volume.
Volume 1: Gay and lesbian issues, prior to 1974 (1 parcel)
Volume 2: Gay and lesbian issues, 1974-1975 (1 parcel)
Volume 3: Gay and lesbian issues, 1976 (2 parcels)
Volume 4: Gay and lesbian issues, 1977 (2 parcels)
Volume 5: Gay and lesbian issues, 1978 (2 parcels)
Volume 6: Gay and lesbian issues, 1979 (2 parcels)
Volume 7: Greg Weir - legal case ends and other 'non-gay' activities of the 1980s (2 parcels)
Volume 8: Gay and lesbian issues, 1980-1981 (1 parcel)
Volume 9: AIDS issues, 1981-1983 (1 parcel)
Volume 10: Gay and lesbian issues, 1982-1983 (1 parcel)
Volume 11: Gay and lesbian issues - 10th National Conference, 1984 (1 parcel)
Volume 12: Gay and lesbian issues - Keith Wright (ALP Queensland), 1984 (1 parcel)
Volume 13: AIDS and the Federal Election, 1984 (1 parcel)
Volume 14: Gay and lesbian issues - Queensland "Sturgess Inquiry", 1984-1987 (2 parcels)
Volume 15: AIDS issues - testing and tracing, 1985 (1 parcel)
Volume 16: Gay and lesbian issues - Queensland Liquor Acts, 1985 (1 parcel)
Volume 17: AIDS - general, 1985 (2 parcels)
Volume 18: AIDS - general, 1986 (1 parcel)
Volume 19: AIDS - Queensland National Campaign on AIDS education, 1986 (1 parcel)
Volume 20: AIDS - general, 1987 (2 parcels)
Volume 21: AIDS - Queensland Parliamentary Leadership, 1987 (1 parcel)
Volume 22: Gay and lesbian issues - organising models in Queensland, 1988-1989 (2 parcels)
Volume 23: Gay and lesbian issues - law reform Queensland, 1989-1990 (7 parcels)
Volume 24: Gay and lesbian issues - anti-discrimination, 1991 onwards (3 parcels)
Volume 25: Greg Weir - some personal correspondence, 1971-1994 (1 parcel)
Index (1 parcel)
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access, except Vols. 23, 24, 25, are Restricted access. Application for access to restricted material may be submitted to the Fryer Librarian for consideration.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Duplicate copies of the Weir Archive are held in National Library of Australia and Mitchell Library manuscript collections.
Existence and location of copies
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Name access points
- Weir, Greg, 1951- (Subject)
- Australian Labor Party (Subject)
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Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, AM, 24-Jan-2022.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.