WestPride Archives

WestPride Archives WestPride Archives
(formerly GALAWA | Gay And Le***an Archive of Western Australia)

GALAWA formed in the mid 1990s to collect and protect, precious material from the community. The GALAWA collection is housed securely in the basement of Murdoch University Library. A new committee formed in 2015 to revitalise the collection and we are working towards this. GALAWA is always interested in new members who wish to join and be a part of the committee, assist with archival work or to assist in other ways.

WestPride has so many different kinds of objects: posters, tapes from the 1970s, banners, books, costumes, badges, lette...
23/05/2026

WestPride has so many different kinds of objects: posters, tapes from the 1970s, banners, books, costumes, badges, letters, magazines etc. How to keep it all safe? We have just completed a Preservation Needs Assessment of the entire archive - Thanks to a grant from the National Library of Australia’s Community Heritage Grant Program ! We were able to secure the services of Stephanie Baily, who was ably assisted by our wonderful volunteers, who helped her unearth many of the treasures of our collection. We are so grateful to Special Collections at who house us and to for supporting small (but important) unique archives like ours 🩷

Hooray! We are excited to announce that WestPride Archives has been awarded an LGBTIQA+ Inclusion Grant 🌈🎉This will supp...
21/05/2026

Hooray! We are excited to announce that WestPride Archives has been awarded an LGBTIQA+ Inclusion Grant 🌈🎉

This will support our young curators’ research about the history of Gay Gaymes in Western Australia in preparation for the International Gay Games, to be hosted in Perth in 2030.

Many thanks to , Special Collections for your ongoing support!

Some interesting work on display at the - of special interest WA artists and This art prize is unique in that it as...
11/05/2026

Some interesting work on display at the - of special interest WA artists and
This art prize is unique in that it asks artists to respond to a verse- in this case ‘What is Truth: I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.’ Genesis 3:10b
The exhibition continues at Holmes a Court Gallery, 10 Douglas Street, Gooyaman/West Perth 9-30 May.
Wed-Fri 11-5 pm, Sat 12-4 pm
Free entry and All welcome.
It’s a great exhibition by some wonderful artists- thanks again to all the Christian churches in Western Australia that support this courageous exhibition.
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Joy acknowledges s*x workers who have lived and worked in and around Darlinghurst since colonisation. It pays tribute to...
08/05/2026

Joy acknowledges s*x workers who have lived and worked in and around Darlinghurst since colonisation. It pays tribute to the complex and significant role of s*x workers in the shaping of Sydney’s social, economic and legal history with NSW being the first place in the world to decriminalise s*x work.
Joy, in her original form, was one of the world’s first sculptures of a s*x worker. The statue, which proved controversial, was located at the corner of Stanley and Yurong streets in East Sydney for 18 months from November 1995, before being relocated to its permanent home at Macquarie University. The current artwork, created by an artist Loui Fraser, is a replica in bronze. It’s back to its original location.

Information: City of Sydney

Photo: A Jedrych, April 2026

Today at Westpride Archives we sorted 25 years of accumulated posters. Thanks to Graham Grundy, our Convenor and all ou...
30/04/2026

Today at Westpride Archives we sorted 25 years of accumulated posters. Thanks to Graham Grundy, our Convenor and all our legend volunteers and

Westpride Archives is loving the news ! Happy Le***an Visibility week.
25/04/2026

Westpride Archives is loving the news ! Happy Le***an Visibility week.

Happy Le***an visibility week from us! We have a huge collection of le***an publications in the Lespar Library donated b...
23/04/2026

Happy Le***an visibility week from us! We have a huge collection of le***an publications in the Lespar Library donated by Karin Hoffman and the D**k D***s, stars of the 1994 Pride Parade ( we need names please?) photo by Suzi Wild

This is a voluntary position on the Westpride Archives committee. If you are interested please contact us via our email ...
28/03/2026

This is a voluntary position on the Westpride Archives committee. If you are interested please contact us via our email [email protected]

Lots of activity in the Archives as our volunteers work to catalogue a recent donation - artworks by thanks and
28/02/2026

Lots of activity in the Archives as our volunteers work to catalogue a recent donation - artworks by thanks and

There’s so much we can say about Fair Day yesterday, but for now, we want to say thank you. Thank you to our unstoppabl...
24/11/2025

There’s so much we can say about Fair Day yesterday, but for now, we want to say thank you.

Thank you to our unstoppable volunteers and committee members for your time, energy and creative vision.

Thank you to Murdoch University for sharing your stall with us.

Thank you to the weather not raining too much!

And thank you to every person who came and spoke with us, donated, or signed up to join our mission to preserve WA LGBTIQA+ history.

See you next weekend for the parade? 🪄🌈

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Building 350 Perth Campus, 90 South Street Murdoch WA 6150
Perth, WA
6105

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