• Title
  Item 1: Tonina Harvey interview by Holly Zwalf
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  11 October 2022
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9670999
• Physical Description
  3 audio files (2 hr., 6 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Tonina Harvey recounts her early upbringing in Nowra, New South Wales. She talks about her move to Sydney in her late teens, coming out as a homosexual, her time in the gay bar social scene on Oxford Street, Sydney as a ‘self-confessed fag hag’, despite encountering ‘femmephobia’ from the lesbian community.
  
  Harvey speaks about the inception of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian choir and the role of the choir in changing social attitudes to LGBTQI+ people. She describes key events in the choir’s history including singing at hospices and by bedsides during the AIDS crisis, touring in less sexually liberal countries, and the first competition the choir entered, where they were asked (but refused) to change their name. After Tonina and her partner moved to Kiama on the NSW south coast Tonina established the Kiama Illawarra Pride Choir.
  
  Harvey describes her long-term relationship with her partner, KT, her partner’s history with addiction, and the correlations with Tonina’s career in drug and alcohol counselling. She talks about the impact of the marriage equality plebiscite and details her subsequent wedding.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Forbes Street Studios, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales on 12 October 2022
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Harvey, Tonina
  
• Subject
  Harvey, Tonina--Interviews.
  Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir.
  Coming out (Sexual orientation)--New South Wales.
  Gay people--Identity.
  AIDS (Disease).
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20553194

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