A CAMP story
CAMP is a story of murder, corruption, love and liberation where past and present collide in a dramatised retelling of the 1970s events which lead to the 1978 Mardi Gras.
78ers legends Robyn Kennedy and Robyn Plaister published their book CAMP: Australia’s pioneer homosexual rights activists earlier this year and commissioned Elias Jamieson Brown to write the play drawing on the inspiring stories of former CAMP activists captured in the book.
Playing at the Seymour Centre from 15 February to 4 March 2023, CAMP welcomes audiences to the punk lands of the 1970s and the birth of Australia’s fierce gay rights movement, chronicling the struggles, successes, and legacy of early Pride activists who risked family, careers, and imprisonment to achieve social change in Australia.
“The stories told in the play are about the lives of our community elders – as they lived them in the pioneer days of our movement,” said Robyn Kennedy.
CAMP focuses on the role of women in the Pride movement as women did a lot of behind-the-scenes work in organisations while simultaneously educating men about the links between homophobia and feminism.
“Women have been all but absent in published records of Pride history in Australia, which have invariably been told from a male perspective,” explained Robyn.
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