The first book-length study of Australia's rich history of LGBTQ+ film and television, covering histories, production, screen representation and audience identities.
Rob Cover is Professor of Digital Communication and Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He leads a number of major funded research projects on young people, health and wellbeing and digital and broadcast media. The author of around one hundred journal articles and chapters, he publishes widely on topics related to digital cultures in the context of social identities, young people, suicide prevention and resilience. Rob is the author of ten books, including:
Identity in the COVID-19 Years (Bloomsbury, 2024),
Identity and Digital Communication: Concepts, Theories, Practices (2023),
Fake News in Digital Culture (2022),
Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Gender and Relationships in a Digital Era (2019),
Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self (2016), and
Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? (2016). He is a co-editor of several anthologies including:
Queer Studies in Education (2024),
The Routledge Handbook of Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights (2024) and is co-editor of
The Elgar Encyclopedia of Queer Studies (2025).
Whitney Monaghan is Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, Australia. Her current research examines LGBTIQ representation on screen. She is the author of Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not 'Just a Phase' (2016), and co-author of Queer Theory Now: From
Foundations to Futures (2020). She is also a co-ordinator of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival.
Stuart Richards is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of South Australia. He is author of
The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn & Politics (2016) and
Agatha Christie & Gothic Horror (2024). He is the co-curator of the Adelaide Queer Film Festival.
Scott McKinnon is Assistant Director at the National Library of Australia and Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Australia. A historian and curator, Scott has published extensively on histories of queer activism, culture and community in Australia, among other topics. He is the author of
Gay Men at the Movies: Cinema, Memory and the History of a Gay Male Community (2016) and the co-editor of
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe (2020).
Tinonee Pym is Research Associate at Adelaide University, South Australia. Her research focuses on LGBTIQA+ communities, including digital cultures and health, queer screen media audiences, and LGBTIQA+ histories and life narratives. She is currently working on the ARC Discovery project
Locating LGBTIQA+ youth in the archive: Telling new stories for belonging.
