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Friends of Dorothy

by William Yang

This large-format, annotated collection of black-and-white photographs documents events centred around gay culture in Sydney over a twenty-year period, including the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Accession 5176 ISBN 0732908825 Publisher Pan Macmillan
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