This clip shows the crowd at what is probably the Melbourne Cup during the Spring Carnival of 1896.

Greg Reading reports for Gaywaves in 1983 from a march on Oxford Street, Sydney, organised as a response to a second police raid of sex-on-premises venue Club 80 in which eleven were charged with a

This clip shows a group of men posing for the camera at the 1896 Melbourne Cup. Unfamiliar with moving image, the men remain still as if posing for a photograph.

This clip shows the end of the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race through the onlooking crowd. Newhaven wins.

Summary by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers

Curator Sally Jackson researches famous faces and fashions of the 1896 Melbourne Cup.

Famous faces and fashions of the 1896 Melbourne Cup.