User:GeoffA
Hello, I am Geoff Allshorn, and I live in Melbourne, Australia. I have been involved in various forms of fandom for over fifty years, but I am probably best known as the founder of the Star Trek club, Austrek. My fannish activities have introduced me to many wonderful people who are full of creativity, compassion, activist leanings, and leadership. The fan community has been accepting and welcoming of diversity for decades, long before the mundane world caught up. I have been privileged to know people who became my lifelong friends and/or mentors, and others who met their future spouses within fandom or who remarked to me how Austrek literally saved their lives. Outside of SF, I have been a school teacher for over 25 years, and my other hobbies have included involvement in human rights activism for over 40 years - which I consider to be not coincidentally aligned with my passion for utopian science fiction. My recent involvement with Fanlore has enabled me to contribute the history of notable friends (and their activities) who should not be lost to history.
Pages Created
Because why not keep track?
2022
2023
- MASC Science Club
- User:GeoffA
- Adrienne Losin
- Helena Binns
- Darren Maxwell
- Betsi Ashton
- Portals of Time
- The Other Side of the Galaxy
- Paul Murphy
- Kate Doolan
- Mervyn Binns
- The Spiral Staircase (Australian Beauty and the Beast zine)
- Greg Franklin
- Out A Space
2024
- Theresa de Gabriele
- John Edwards Davies
- Dennis W Nicholson
- Male Pair-Bonds and Female Desire in Fan Slash Writing
- Wynne Whiteford
- Dick Jenssen
- Ian Gunn
- David McDonnell (AUS)
- KRin Pender-Gunn
- Space Association of Australia
- From Queer to Eternity
- Kinkon
- Melbourne Science Fiction Club
- Gaybase Alpha
- Melanie Nemer
- Bofcon
Pages Assisted
2022
- Geoff Tilley
- Geoff Allshorn
- Diane Marchant
- TrekCon
- Spock
- These Are The Voyages (zine)
- Trekkie Talk
- Captain's Log Supplamental
- Spaced Out (zine)
- Austrek
- Starrag
- The Star Gazer
- MASC Newsletter
- Interceptor
- The Captain's Log (Australian newsletter)
2023
- Shayne McCormack
- Fragments (Star Trek: TOS story)
- Bob Johnson's Star Trek Marathons
- Life, But Not As We Know It: Star Trek, fan culture, slash fiction and the queering of Starfleet Command
- Robert Jan
- Gail Adams
- Ish
- Tuckerized
- User:MeeDee
- Doctor Who Club of Victoria
- Beyond Antares (Australian Star Trek: TOS zine)
- Supervoc
- The Victorian Time Machine
- Currents (UFO zine)
- Time-Warped
- Gene Roddenberry
- Uhura/Chapel
- The City on the Edge of the Yarra
- Susan Sackett
- AIDS and Fandom
- Ditmar Award/Fan Winners
- Mike McGann
- Religion
- Karen Lewis
- Mary Sue
- Worldcon
- Ditmar Award
- AussieTrek (Australian Star Trek con)
- Film Clip Fandom
- Galactic Tours Convention
- The History of Austrek: How it all began...
- Janice Rand
- Zine
- Star Walking Inc.
- The Communicator (Star Trek Australian newsletter)
- Diverse Universe
- Auzwars Chronicles
- Alliance (Star Wars zine published in Australia)
- Sue Bursztynski
- Multiverse Science Fiction Group
- Spunk
- The McCoy Tapes
- K/S and Other Risque Stuff
- Continuum (Australian convention)
- Metaluna
- H.A.M.I.L.L.S.
- Strange Justice
- Trek Hillbillies
- Enterprise: The Star Trek Appreciation Society of Victoria
- Susan Smith-Clarke
- Betty Franklin
- Gallifrey (Doctor Who fan club)