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   * immigrants from the Vietnam War arrive in migrant hostels in Maribyrnong and later settle in Footscray & Sunshine in particular as the younger European generations move out of those areas into new suburbs on the fringes or to more affluent suburbs.
   * suburbs of **Kealba** and **Keilor Downs** commences in mid-1970's after the Green Gully municipal tip was filled in
-  * **alternative gay fashion culture fashion designer confronting performance artist icon [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Bowery|Leigh Bowery]] who was a muse for Lucien Freud and friend of Boy George** caught the train as a student to Melbourne High School from his home in Sunshine in the 1970's before moving to London in the 1980s
+  * **alternative gay fashion culture fashion designer confronting performance artist icon [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Bowery|Leigh Bowery]] who inspired the Tranimal drag movement, was a muse for Lucien Freud and friend of Boy George** caught the train as a student to Melbourne High School from his home in Sunshine in the 1970's before moving to London in the 1980s
   * the more up-market suburb of **Taylors Lakes** commences 1981 with sub-division of Overnewton Estate lands which had been sold to the Walton family (a retailer which was bought out by Myer in mid-1970's), initially the land east of Sunshine Avenue was subdivided and then in late 1980's, the land to the west of Sunshine Avenue was subdivided
   * 1989: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Football_Club_(VFA)|Sunshine Football Club]] no longer in VFA after VFA contracted to only 1 Division and Sunshine had been uncompetitive at that level and financially struggling - club had formed in 1938 and had joined the VFA in 1959 when it played its home games at Selwyn Park, but these were moved to Skinner Reserve, Braybrook, in 1966. Albion Football Club was it's Thirds team before AFC ventured out on its own in 1961.