• Title
  Item 1: DJ Gemma interview by Sophie Robinson
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  22 December 2022
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9671052
• Physical Description
  2 audio files (1 hr., 4 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  DJ Gemma details her contributions to Sydney’s LGBTQI+ cultural life and gay, lesbian, and feminist activism since the 1980s. She talks about her
  creative work as a DJ, sound and lighting technician and event producer for many much loved LGBTQI+ dance parties and events, including Club Kooky, Club Arak and Pluto Beat.
  
  Gemma discusses her family migrating to Australia from Lebanon in the mid-1970s; her move as a young adult to inner-city Darlinghurst and discovering Sydney’s LGBTQI+ scene; her early immersion in the women’s movement and lesbian communities, and her involvement in queer party culture and events as a DJ and event producer. She also reflects on contemporary shifts in identity politics, changes in the way people socialise, and how Sydney’s night-time economy operates.
• Language
  English
• Access Conditions
  Restricted: Onsite access only
  For access to this collection please submit your request through Ask a Librarian
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Reproduction Restricted:
  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 22 December 2022
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Kooky, Gemma
  
• Subject
  Kooky, Gemma--Interviews.
  Lebanese Australians.
  Gay and lesbian dance parties--New South Wales
  Disc jockeys--New South Wales.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20553284

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