“Up the Lezzos!” was the triumphant cry of a newly out Kate Rowe as she was thrown into a paddy wagon at the first Mardi Gras. Fifty years later she would launch her memoir How the Fuck Would I Know? at Qtopia, which now occupies the police station where she was once locked up. That book would document a life full of unexpected turns, from a lavender marriage to help a gay friend in need, healing from addiction, finding her strength through extreme sports and learning the ukulele.Nick Henderson, historian, researcher and collections manager at the Australian Queer Archives will host a discussion with Kate on the personal and political changes in lesbian life since that charged night in 1978.
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79 – 81 Fitzroy St., St Kilda, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3181, 79-81 Fitzroy St, St Kilda VIC 3182, Australia, Prahran
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