Ian Teacosy Gray is a historian and curator, activist, Radical Faerie and a ‘78er’, having marched in the first Mardi Gras in Sydney. Teacosy moved the Northern Rivers in the mid-1970s, which he considers his tribal and spiritual home. Ian has helped to found many Northern Rivers community and social groups, including the Radical Oz Faeries, Tropical Fruits and more recently the Older Lesbian & Gay Association which is a queer elder’s support group. Teacosy is also a community historian, having co-created the Tropical Fruits Queer History Project and the Northern Rivers Queer History Project with his long-time friend, Peter Mitchell. And In 2017, Teacosy curated the exhibition ‘Lismore Has a Diverse Past’, shown at Southern Cross University.

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Interview Recorded: Murwillumbah, November 2020.Image: Teacosy(Courtesy of Ian Gray).Music: Coffee & Conversation 2020 Podcast.co Example Network.

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