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Val Eastwood (17-8-1927 – 10-12-2009) was a dancer, swimwear model[1] and author best known for operating a series of cafes through the 1950s to 1970s that became a gathering point for Melbourne's gay and lesbian community. She described herself as "outrageous", was openly lesbian, and regularly wore men's suits with lipstick in public.[2]

As a teenager, Eastwood ran her own dancing school in Ivanhoe, before working with Tivoli Theatre in the CBD, then becoming partner in the Betty Lee Academy of dance at the age of 17.[3]

Eastwood opened her first cafe, Val's Coffee Lounge, in her mid twenties, at 123 Swanston Street in Melbourne's CBD[4]. This was a rare venue which welcomed the "camp" community, which was otherwise underground.[1] Initially a single, upstairs floor which seated 80, it expanded to cover two levels, open from morning until late at night, at a time when evening alcohol sales were forbidden.[2] The coffee lounge catered to theatre audiences, and particularly gay people. There was a weekly live music concert.[2]

Over the next two decades, this was followed by Cafe 31 in St Kilda, Cafe Ad Lib in South Yarra, and Val's Restaurant in Hawthorn.

In the 1960s she began writing short stories, a collection of which were published in 2009 as The Travelling Mind of Val Eastwood, by the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.[4][5]

In 2009, the name Val's Cafe was used for a government-funded program to support ageing LGBTI people in health and wellbeing.[6]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://dailyreview.com.au/melbournes-bohemian-past-and-richard-avedons-people/17062/|title=Melbourne's Bohemian past and Richard Avedon's People {{!}} Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more.|website=dailyreview.com.au|language=en-AU|access-date=2018-03-21}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/104263/20091029-1040/melbqueerhistory.tripod.com/val.html|title=Melbourne, Queen City of the South - Val's Coffee Shop|website=pandora.nla.gov.au|access-date=2018-03-23}}
3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206024399 |title=Ballroom Personalities |newspaper=The Age |issue=28,721 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=15 May 1947 |accessdate=23 March 2018 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/an-outrageous-figure-of-the-1950s-20100105-lsdg.html|title=An 'outrageous' figure of the 1950s|date=2010-01-05|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=2018-03-21}}
5. ^{{Cite book|title=The travelling mind of Val Eastwood: short stories by Val Eastwood.|last=Eastwood|first=Val|publisher=Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives|others=Interviewer: Ruth Ford (Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives)|year=2009|isbn=9780646525372|location=Parkville, VIctoria (Australia)|pages=}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/ageing-industry-network/newsletter-issue-4-october-2016/vals-cafe|title=Val's Cafe : Melbourne School of Population and Global Health|date=2016-10-06|website=Melbourne School of Population and Global Health|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-21}}
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