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.
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Because why not keep track?
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- 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
- The Science Fiction and Fantasy and Horror Fan Resource Book
- AURORA (Robert O'Reilly fan club)
- Marc D Lewis
- U. F. P. Australia (Star Trek RPG Group)
- Lee Harding
- Ellen Hamlyn-Harris
- Concinnity 95
- Perdition's Flames
- Julie Townsend
- Race Mathews
- Leigh Edmonds
- Amateur Fantasy Publications of Australia
- ANZAPA
- Norma Hemming
- SF Commentary
- Marjorie Miller
- Cienan Muir
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- Bruce Gillespie
- Hope Eyrie
- The Space Age
- Club News
- Talk:MASC Newsletter
- Melbourne LEGO User Group (MUGs)
- Brickvention
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- 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
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- Karen Lewis
- Mary Sue
- Worldcon
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- 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
- Multiverse (multifandom zine)
- Enterprise: The Star Trek Appreciation Society of Victoria
- Susan Smith-Clarke
- Betty Franklin
- Aliens Made Them Do It
- Sex Pollen
- Gallifrey (Doctor Who fan club)
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- Space: 1999
- Hatstand
- Medtrek (con)
- The Garden Spot of Ceti Alpha V
- Sarah J. Groenewegen
- Star Trek Welcommittee
- Slash vs. Gay
- Genderswap
- SinpOzium
- Bjo Trimble
- Kirk/Uhura (TOS)
- Australian Science Fiction Convention
- Katharine Shade
- George Ivanoff
- Shane Morrissey
- Zencon
- Star Walking Inc.
- Force 2 (convention)
- Multiverse (convention)
- Ian Crozier
- St. Elsewhere
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
- Edith Keeler
- Harlan Ellison
- Jeremy Sadler
- Blake's 7
- Gilligan's Island
- I Dream of Jeannie
- Grace Lee Whitney
- Grace Lee Whitney Fan Club
- The Invaders (TV)
- Sherlock Holmes
- Queer Fandom
- Bewitched (TV series)
- The Persuaders
- The Time Tunnel
- Land of the Giants
- Filk
- Space-Time Continuum (Star Trek newsletter)
- Aurora
- Mark Lenard
- Alien (film series)
- Margaret
- Jan MacNally
- Stingray (Supermarionation series)
- Trans Characters in Fandom
- Star Trek Fotonovels
- Fandom Nickname
- The Fantastic Journey
- Off Centaur Publications
- Minus Ten and Counting: Songs of the Space Age (filk songbook)
- Star Trek Association of Fans and Friends
- Autism and Fandom
- Race and Fandom
- You are Receiving this Zine Because
- Agatha Christie
- T'Pau
- Minus Ten and Counting: Songs of the Space Age (filk album)
- Probe
- Teen Wolf
- Talk:Fragments (Star Trek: TOS story)
- A Fragment Out of Time
- Filk
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Pick your brain?
GeoffA, does this ring any bells? It mentions a Brisbane con, early 1990s, maybe even late 1980s: https://fanlore.org/wiki/List_of_Blake%27s_7_Early_Songvids#Transfinite Mrs. Potato Head 22:27, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Mrs. Potato Head, I do know someone who would have been involved with that fandom in that place and time, but I asked her and she knows nothing about the vid in question. Sorry. I will ask around if I can. GeoffA (talk) 05:31, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, GeoffA, for asking your friend. :-) Mrs. Potato Head 23:08, 9 December 2024 (UTC)