Books by Michael Hurley
In Beside My Self: The Memoirs of a China Cabinet, the writing moves constantly between objects i... more In Beside My Self: The Memoirs of a China Cabinet, the writing moves constantly between objects in my china cabinet that were given to me as gifts, the friendships involved in Sydney, Melbourne and internationally, films, books, sexual politics and associated homo sensibilities, whether gay, lesbian, bi or queer.
Bloomsbury meets clone meets camp. They circle each other. Oscar watches on. High art meets low life, and I live in Babylon Berlin. It's a change from Bandiana.
Key words: race, whiteness, migration, friendship, Sydney gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, taste, style, surfaces, Dietrich, London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Wilde, Sontag, Barthes.
Edited Books and Journals by Michael Hurley
Jodie Brooks, Michael Hurley and Leigh Raymond (eds) Queer Media Issue, Media International Australia, 78, November 1995., 1995
Papers by Michael Hurley
Imagine Hope, Sep 11, 2002
... Edited by Mary Haour-Knipe. ... I would also like to thank friends and colleagues for their p... more ... Edited by Mary Haour-Knipe. ... I would also like to thank friends and colleagues for their personal support and guidance, in particular Dennis Altman, Neil Bartlett, Mark Breedon, Camilla Broadbent, James Cary-Parkes, Kay Cheese, Emmanuel Cooper, Martin Dockrell, Simon ...
Summary This paper was originally written as a contribution to discussions about HIV treatments m... more Summary This paper was originally written as a contribution to discussions about HIV treatments media occurring between the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) and the National Association of People Living with HIV and AIDS (NAPWA). The Executive of NAPWA tabled the paper at the HIV subcommittee of the Australian National Council on AIDS, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases. The paper was based on research undertaken by the HIV Treatments Education Project of the Researchers in Residence Program. The implications of this research for how community–based HIV/AIDS media are best understood are more extensive than the original motivation for the paper allowed, consequently it has been somewhat revised for wider circulation. The purpose of this paper is to extend the conceptual frameworks used to understand HIV/AIDS media. In particular, it queries notions of these media that see them solely as distribution mechanisms for treatments information and introduces the notion of c...
INTRODUCTION Motherhood and HIV positive women in Australia collects together as a report three c... more INTRODUCTION Motherhood and HIV positive women in Australia collects together as a report three conference papers delivered between 1999 and 2001. This report is aimed at health service providers, policy makers and people living with HIV and AIDS. It details empirical information and informed discussion about the ways motherhood is understood amongst HIV positive women in Australia, and how this affects their lives. It is a background briefing document that supports critical reflection on specific aspects of the experience of women living with HIV in Australia. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The conference papers and posters reproduced here are derived primarily from the HIV Futures I and II Studies. These studies are major research projects conducted over several years (1997-2000) and have involved a number of researchers in gathering and analysing quantitative and qualitative data. Readers will be aware of the quantitative arm of the Studies which has produced a number of major reports since 19...
Media International Australia, 1995
ABSTRACT This bibliography is an initial attempt at recording all the lesbian and gay print media... more ABSTRACT This bibliography is an initial attempt at recording all the lesbian and gay print media in Australia. It is organised in six sections: media bibliographies; books and book chapters; articles on the media; journals, book catalogues and literary magazines; publishers; and newspapers and magazines.
Media International Australia, 1995
Sexually transmitted infections, Aug 21, 2017
With increasing use of non-condom-based HIV risk reduction strategies by gay and bisexual men (GB... more With increasing use of non-condom-based HIV risk reduction strategies by gay and bisexual men (GBM), we compared occasions of condomless anal intercourse with casual partners (CLAIC) that resulted in HIV transmission and similar occasions when HIV transmission did not occur. We compared two demographically similar samples of Australian GBM. The HIV Seroconversion Study (SCS) was an online cross-sectional survey of GBM recently diagnosed with HIV. The Pleasure and Sexual Health (PASH) study was an online cross sectional survey of GBM generally. Using logistic regression, we compared accounts of CLAIC reported by men in SCS as being the event which led to them acquiring HIV, with recent CLAIC reported by HIV-negative men in PASH. In SCS, 85.1% of men reported receptive CLAIC, including 51.8% with ejaculation; 32.1% reported having previously met this partner and 28.6% believed this partner to be HIV-negative. Among HIV-negative men in PASH reporting recent CLAIC, 65.5% reported recept...
Researching the Margins, 2007
ABSTRACT This chapter discusses how marginality is conceptualised in various places and how these... more ABSTRACT This chapter discusses how marginality is conceptualised in various places and how these conceptualisations are used. It does so in relation to social theory, empirical data and selected research practices. The discussion raises the possibility that, in some social research and public health contexts, practices which assume marginality can reproduce social deficit accounts of the groups being researched, and in the process reinforce social marginalisation of those groups. One of the challenges for a chapter such as this is that marginality is configured conceptually in many different ways. Indeed its uses veer between dramatisations of powerlessness and silence that do much to illuminate experiences of social and political exclusion (stigma, discrimination, structured inequalities) to well-meant, prosaic descriptions of any kind of social difference.
Australian Literary Studies, 2010
T HE first Australian gay and lesbian writing anthology, Edge City on Two Different Plans: A Coll... more T HE first Australian gay and lesbian writing anthology, Edge City on Two Different Plans: A Collection of Lesbian and Gay Writing from Australia, was published in 1983. In the Foreword to that volume, Dennis Altman identified gay and lesbian writing as ‘literature that quite consciously seeks to explore the experience of being homosexual’ (12–13). He pointed to the ways in which ‘the development of a gay community extensive enough to support its own writers’ had been much slower in Australia than (by implication) the United States, and suggested that this was due to the smallness of the population, the closetedness of writers, and the ‘ideological rigidity of the gay movement’. Altman argued against the view that the lack of Australian writing was due to homophobia in Australian publishing, but accepted that a perception this was the case might inhibit would-be writers. By the early nineties, however, community commentators – writers, reviewers, editors, publishers, booksellers – began to speak of an emerging ‘boom’ in gay and lesbian writing and publishing in Australia. Though limited in extent, the discussion was vigorous, and sometimes tendentious. Much of the discussion focussed on novels and anthologies, and credited gay and women’s movement small and independent presses as the primary creators of gay, lesbian and female readerships and markets. It minimised both the significance of non-fictional prose in the creation of gay, lesbian and crossover readerships, and the role of mainstream publishing. Mainstream literary
Meanjin
Introduction that extensively discussed the then state of gay and lesbian writing in Australia
‘Sex, Health and Pathology: Honouring Sleaze’, in Richters, J., Duffin, R., Gilmour, J., et al (e... more ‘Sex, Health and Pathology: Honouring Sleaze’, in Richters, J., Duffin, R., Gilmour, J., et al (eds) Health in Difference. Proceedings of the First National Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Bisexual Health Conference, Sydney, 3-5 October 1996, Australian Centre for Lesbian and Gay Research, Sydney, 1997.
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Books by Michael Hurley
Bloomsbury meets clone meets camp. They circle each other. Oscar watches on. High art meets low life, and I live in Babylon Berlin. It's a change from Bandiana.
Key words: race, whiteness, migration, friendship, Sydney gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, taste, style, surfaces, Dietrich, London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Wilde, Sontag, Barthes.
Edited Books and Journals by Michael Hurley
Papers by Michael Hurley
Bloomsbury meets clone meets camp. They circle each other. Oscar watches on. High art meets low life, and I live in Babylon Berlin. It's a change from Bandiana.
Key words: race, whiteness, migration, friendship, Sydney gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, taste, style, surfaces, Dietrich, London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Wilde, Sontag, Barthes.