• Title
  Item 1: Svetlana Gilerman interview by Holly Zwalf
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  11 October 2022
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9671022
• Physical Description
  3 audio files (2 hr., 52 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Sveta Gilerman describes her childhood, life under communist Ukraine, and the difficulties of adjusting to school life in Sydney. She talks about her teenage love for Boy George and David Bowie and how this helped shape her relationship to gender and sexuality, as well as her love of music.
  
  Gilerman describes her first sexual experiences with a woman and her hesitancy to come out to her family and their tightknit community, as well as the Sydney queer scene around this time and her personal affinity with the leather community. She talks about her introduction to dance music at the Hordern Pavilion, a moment which she attributes to her career as a DJ, her time working on FBI and 2SER, and how she ended up appearing on Derryn Hinch’s evening current affairs show defending ACT UP during the AIDS crisis.
  
  Gilerman recounts various queer events she has worked on over two decades, including Hellfire, Sleaze Ball, and Mardi Gras, the ballroom scene in New York, and discusses the impact of the lockout laws and more recently the Covid lockdowns on the bar scene on Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, New South Wales. She reflects on the way that different drugs have impacted on the scene and discusses her involvement with the Australian marriage equality campaign, and her mother speaking up for same-sex marriage, an event that went viral on social media.
• 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 11 October 2022
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Gilerman, Svetlana
  
• Subject
  Gilerman, Svetlana---Interviews.
  Ukrainian Australians.
  Gay people--Identity.
  Gay and lesbian dance parties--New South Wales
  Coming out (Sexual orientation)--New South Wales.
  Disc jockeys--New South Wales.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20553229

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