Face the facts: Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex People | Atralian Human Rights Commissn

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• FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
• WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTSIT IS LIKELY THE MPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY HAS NTRIBUTED TO ATRALIANS BEG MORE PROGRSIVE, AS SHOWN THIS YEAR’S HILDA SURVEYBY DR HANNAH MCCANN, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE SELECTN TO:THE 2017 HOEHOLD, INE AND LABOUR DYNAMICS ATRALIA (HILDA) SURVEY SHOWS THAT, SCE 2005, ATTUS TOWARD MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN HAVE BEE MORE PROGRSIVE.ONE OF THE BIGGT CHANG NCERNS ATTUS TOWARD THE RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUAL UPL. A PARISON OF ATTUS 2005 VERS 2015 SHOWS THAT BOTH MEN AND WOMEN ARE NOW MORE LIKELY TO AGREE WH THE STATEMENT: “HOMOSEXUAL UPL SHOULD HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS HETEROSEXUAL UPL DO.’’ WH SRG RANGG OM 1 (STRONG DISAGREEMENT) TO 7 (STRONG AGREEMENT), MEN’S ATTUS HAVE SHIFTED OM 3.3 (2005) TO 4.8 (2015), AND WOMEN’S ATTUS OM 4.0 (2005) TO 5.3 (2015). THE RULTS ALSO SHOW WE ARE NOW MORE POSIVE ABOUT UNMARRIED UPL LIVG TOGETHER AND WOMEN RAISG CHILDREN AS SGLE PARENTS.THE 2017 HILDA SURVEY POTS TO A SHIFT TOWARDS MORE PROGRSIVE VALU AMONG ATRALIANS. ANIMATN: LUCY FAHEY / VOICEOVER: CHRIS HATZISBUT WHY HAS A SHIFT TOWARD LS TRADNAL VIEWPOTS OCCURRED WHEN NSERVATIVE AND RIGHT-WG POLIL GROUPS SEEM TO BE GROWG ACROSS THE WORLD? WHILE IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIVELY EXPLA BROAD ATTUDAL SHIFTS, A FEW FACTORS N HELP MAKE SENSE OF THEM.ALTHOUGH IS UNCLEAR WHETHER PARTICIPANTS TERPRETED THE QUTN AS DIRECTLY RELATED TO GAY MARRIAGE, WE KNOW THAT TERNATNAL MPAIGNS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY HAVE BROUGHT HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS TO THE FOREONT OF PUBLIC BATE. ATRALIA'S GENERATNAL WEALTH DIVI IS BGREAD MOREA STAED MPAIGNIN 1976 THE HISTORY OF SEXUALY VOLUME 1, MICHEL FOUULT FAMOLY ARGUED THAT IS THE PROHIBN OF SEXUALY THAT PARADOXILLY CREAS DISCSN OF THE TOPIC. ALTHOUGH MARRIAGE EQUALY HAS NOT E TO PASS ATRALIA, ENDLS DISCSN HAS BEEN GENERATED ON THE SUBJECT, NOT LEAST BEE A STAED MPAIGN AROSE THE WAKE OF THE OVERT BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TRODUCED BY FORMER PRIME MISTER JOHN HOWARD.IN RPONSE TO HOWARD’S CHANG TO THE MARRIAGE ACT 2004, WHICH NOW SE MARRIAGE FED AS ‘THE UNN OF A MAN AND A WOMAN TO THE EXCLN OF ALL OTHERS’, THE ATRALIAN MARRIAGE EQUALY MPAIGN GROUP FORMED. SCE THEN THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN HEATED BAT PARLIAMENT AND THE MEDIA, SEVERAL PARLIAMENTARY QUIRI, THOANDS OF PEOPLE PROTTG THE STREETS, ONLE PETNS AND THE FORMATN OF NUMERO LOBBYG AND MPAIGN GROUPS. SCE THE HOWARD GOVERNMENT’S CHANG TO THE MARRIAGE ACT 2004, WHICH FED MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, THERE HAS BEEN A STAED MPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY ATRALIA. PICTURE: LEVI SNRS/UNSPLASHIN 2013 THE ATRALIAN CAPAL TERRORY LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY BRIEFLY PASSED A MARRIAGE EQUALY LG THAT SAW 31 UPL MARRY, ONLY TO BE OVERTURNED BY THE FERAL GOVERNMENT WH A WEEK. FOR THE LOVE OF THE PUNTREAD MOREWH MANY UNTRI LEGALISG MARRIAGE EQUALY – CLUDG CANADA (2005), NEW ZEALAND (2013) AND THE UNED STAT (2015) – THE NSENS AMONG MANY SEEMS TO BE THAT, SPE THE GOVERNMENT’S REFAL, MARRIAGE EQUALY ATRALIA IS EVABLE. NOTABLY THERE HAS BEEN SOME BATE WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER (LGBTQ) MUNI ABOUT WHETHER MARRIAGE EQUALY OUGHT TO BE CENTRAL TO THEIR ACTIVISM. HOWEVER, EVEN THIS BATE REVEALS THE MPAIGN HAS LED TO GREATER ATTENTN ON THE RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUAL UPL.GAY UPL ON THE RISETHE NUMBER OF ATRALIANS WHO REPORT INTIFYG AS PART OF A GAY OR LBIAN UPLE IS ALSO CREASG, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT ALSO BE RELATED TO THE EQUAL MARRIAGE BATE. THE 2016 CENS DATA REVEALED A HUGE 42 PER CENT RISE UPL INTIFYG AS SAME-SEX SCE 2011. GENR THEORIST JUDH BUTLER HAS ARGUED THAT GREATER SOCIAL REGNN OF LGBTQ ISSU OPENS UP CULTURAL SPACE FOR MORE PEOPLE TO OPENLY INTIFY AS LGBTQ. IN TURN, THIS NTRIBUT TO MORE CULTURAL VISIBILY, BE THAT MASTREAM MEDIA OR TERPERSONAL NTEXTS, AND MORE SPACE FOR LGBTQ INTIFITN. MORE ATRALIANS ARE INTIFYG AS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR OR QUEER. PICTURE: TOM THE PHOTOGRAPHER/UNSPLASHWHILE A POSIVE CHANGE DISURSE AROUND THE RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUALS DON’T ‘MAKE’ PEOPLE GAY OR LBIAN, DO ALLOW GREATER ROOM FOR PEOPLE TO INTIFY THE WAYS. THIS MAY MEAN THAT, GENERAL, DIVIDUALS ARE NOW MORE LIKELY TO KNOW SOMEONE WHO INTIFI AS GAY OR LBIAN THEIR FAY OR SOCIAL WORK, WHICH ULD BE FLUENCG ATTUS TOWARD THE QUTN OF HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS. INED GIVEN THE RERCG NATURE OF GREATER LGBTQ REGNN, THIS MAY HELP TO EXPLA THE STEADY UPWARD TREND RULTS OVER TIME. WHY PARLIAMENT SHOULD CI ON SAME SEX MARRIAGEREAD MOREAS GAYLE RUB INTIFIED HER FAMO SAY THKG SEX, FIRST PUBLISHED 1984, ATTUS TOWARD UNMARRIED UPL AND GAY AND LBIAN UPL THE USA ARE AN AREA OF NTTATN. SHE ARGUED THAT RELATNSHIPS AND PARTICULAR SEXUAL ACTS EXIST WH A HIERARCHY – WH SOME ARRANGEMENTS AND ACTS SEEN AS MORE ACCEPTABLE THAN OTHERS. THE CHANGE TOWARD MORE PROGRSIVE ATTUS HIGHLIGHTED BY THE HILDA SURVEY DATA SUGGTS THAT PERHAPS THE MPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY, AND TURN THE GREATER NUMBERS OF PEOPLE INTIFYG AS PART OF GAY AND LBIAN UPL, MIGHT BE HAVG SOME KD OF IMPACT. HOWEVER, WHAT THE HILDA SURVEY DO NOT REVEAL IS WHETHER ATTUS TOWARD SGLE HOMOSEXUAL PEOPLE, PEOPLE POLYAMORO RELATNSHIPS, OR THOSE WHO INTIFY ELSEWHERE ON THE LGBTQ SPECTM ARE ALSO CHANGG FOR THE BETTER. PERHAPS THE LSON HERE IS THAT IF MPAIGNS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE MAKE A REAL IMPACT ON ATTUS, THEN WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THE MOVEMENTS REGNISE A DIVERSY OF INTI. WHOUT THIS, THE RISK IS THAT NEW HIERARCHI OF ACCEPTABILY WILL FORM THE WAKE OF OTHER SIGNIFINT GAS. BANNER IMAGE: GETTY IMAGFIRST PUBLISHED ON 1 AUGT 2017 INSI BSSAME SEX MARRIAGE GAY RIGHTSLGBTIQA+HILDAHILDA 2017START THE NVERSATN ON FACEBOOKLOADG NVERSATN...SORRY, SOMETHG PREVENTED THE FACEBOOK MENTS FEED OM LOADG. INSI BSFEATUREDDR HANNAH MCCANNSCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND POLIL SCIENC, FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE: FACEBOOKTWTERLKEDINMEDIA AND REPUBLITNTERMS OF ECLOSEREPUBLISH THIS ARTICLE WE BELIEVE THE EE FLOW OF RMATN. THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNR A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTN-NO DERIVATIV 3.0 ATRALIA (CC BY-ND 3.0 AU), SO YOU N REPUBLISH OUR ARTICL FOR EE, ONLE OR PRT.ALL REPUBLISHED ARTICL MT BE ATTRIBUTED THE FOLLOWG WAY AND NTA LKS TO BOTH THE SE AND ORIGAL ARTICLE: “THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED ON PURSU. READ THE ORIGAL ARTICLE.”WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTS
• ATRALIAN OUTLOOK HOME ATRALIAN OUTLOOK PRI MONTH: LGBTQ RIGHTS THE SPOTLIGHTIN THIS SECTN GO BACK TO ATRALIAN OUTLOOKABOUTPRI MONTH: LGBTQ RIGHTS THE SPOTLIGHT11 JUN 2021BY PROFSOR DENNIS ALTMAN AM FASSAANALYSIS SHAREFACEBOOKTWTERLKEDJUNE MARKS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1969 STONEWALL RTS, WHEN RISTANCE TO A POLICE RAID ON A GAY BAR SPARKED THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEW YORK GAY LIBERATN FRONT. IN ATRALIA THERE IS LTLE AWARENS OF THE HISTORY OF QUEER ADVOCY. PRI MONTH, RATHER LIKE MOTHERS’ AND FATHERS’ DAY, IS A PRODUCT OF AMERIN MERCIALISM. IN THE WTERN WORLD, BS AND POLICIANS ARE QUICK TO E THE CELEBRATN TO PROCLAIM THEIR SUPPORT FOR WHAT IS NOW LLED THE LGBTIQ MUNY. AGA, THIS IS A TERM BASED ON WTERN ASSUMPTNS, AND I PREFER THE ACRONYM SOGI, REFERRG TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR EXPRSN, WHICH IS ED BY THE UNED NATNS HUMAN RIGHT COUNCIL AND BETTER PTUR THE RANGE OF DIVERSY THAT IS VOLVED.PRINT JOE BIN, REGNISG THE MONTH, CLARED THAT HE “WILL NOT RT UNTIL FULL EQUALY FOR LGBTQ+ AMERINS IS FALLY ACHIEVED AND DIFIED TO LAW.” HARD TO IMAGE PRIME MISTER STT MORRISON MAKG THE SAME PLEDGE – THIS IS THE MAN WHO WALKED OUT OF THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV TO AVOID VOTG FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AFTER A MAJORY OF HIS NSTUENTS SUPPORTED . BUT LOL UNIVERSI, LAW FIRMS, AND STATE ERNMENTS WILL UNDOUBTEDLY E THE OPPORTUNY TO ANNOUNCE THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE QUEER MUNY.ALTHOUGH THERE ARE STILL AREAS OF DISCRIMATN, MOST NOTABLY AROUND TRANS* PEOPLE, VERY NSIRABLE STEPS HAVE BEEN MA OVER THE PAST FEW S TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF QUEER PEOPLE ATRALIA. THE SUATN MOST PARTS OF THE WORLD IS VERY DIFFERENT.THE LAST HAS SEEN BOTH AN ASSERTN OF QUEER RIGHTS TERNATNAL FORA AND A RRPONDG BACKLASH OM UNTRI CLUDG RSIA AND MOST AIN AND MLIM STAT. UNFORTUNATELY, FENCE OF SEXUAL AND GENR DIVERSY, WHICH EXISTS MOST SOCIETI OF WHICH WE ARE AWARE, HAS BEE SPEGOATED AS WTERN IMPERIALISM. IN MANY FORMER BRISH LONI, POLIL AND RELIG LEARS FEND LAWS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVUR THE NAME OF TRADNAL VALU, EVEN THOUGH THE LAWS WERE ACTUALLY TRODUCED BY THE LONISERS.IN PARTS OF THE WORLD, GLOBAL ATTENTN TO SOGI ISSU HAS RULTED CREASED PERSECUTN. THIS IS PARTICULARLY EVINT INDONIA, WHERE POLICIANS HAVE CLAIMED “LGBT” REPRENTS ATTACKS ON NATNAL AND FAY VALU. THE HEAD OF INDONIA’S POPULATN AND FAY PLANNG AGENCY NOIJAL LABELLED LGBT CIZENS THE “MA ENEMY OF NATNAL VELOPMENT.” WHILE THERE IS A LARGE AND VISIBLE QUEER MUNY UNTRI SUCH AS THAILAND AND THE PHILIPP, EVEN RICH UNTRI ASIA, SUCH AS SOUTH KOREA AND SGAPORE, REMA HOSTILE TO QUEER RIGHTS. SGAPORE, LIKE MALAYSIA, RETAS THE BRISH-ERA LAWS CRIMALISG HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVUR.THERE ARE ONGOG MPAIGNS TO OVERTURN THE LAWS, MOST NOTABLY SOME CARIBBEAN AND AIN STAT, BUT THE REACTN IS OFTEN HARSH. EARLIER THIS YEAR, 21 PEOPLE WERE ARRTED GHANA AFTER POLICE STORMED A WORKSHOP FOR LGBT+ PEOPLE AND HELD THEM CTODY FOR ALMOST TWO WEEKS. IN MUCH OF THE MIDDLE EAST, THERE HAS BEEN CREASG PERSECUTN OF PEOPLE SEEN AS GAY OR TRANS*.LEGAL CHANG ARE NOT THEMSELV SUFFICIENT. AS MARK GEVISSER WROTE, “SOUTH AI WAS FAMOLY THE FIRST UNTRY THE WORLD TO EXPLICLY OUTLAW DISCRIMATN ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN S NSTUTN ( 1996), AND ONE OF THE FIRST TO PERM SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (2006). WOMEN, TOO, HAVE FULL EQUALY AND PROTECTN UNR THE LAW. YET WE HAVE ONE OF THE HIGHT RAT OF GENR-BASED VLENCE THE WORLD, A SUBSET OF WHICH IS THE ABE OF GENR-NONNFORMG PEOPLE: BUTCH LBIANS WHO ARE SUBJECT TO WHAT IS TERMED ‘PUNIVE RAPE,’ AND FEMME MEN OR TRANS WOMEN WHO ARE BEATEN, RAPED, OR MURRED AT HORRIFYG RAT.”ATRALIA’S RPONSIBILIAS A MEMBER OF THE UNED NATNS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSN BETWEEN 2018 AND 2020, ATRALIA WAS A NSISTENT SUPPORTER OF MOV TO CLU SOGI ISSU AS RE BS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. ATRALIA IS A MEMBER OF THE UNED NATNS LGBTI RE GROUP, -CHAIRED BY ARGENTA AND THE NETHERLANDS, WHICH CLUS 33 MEMBER STAT, PRIMARILY OM EUROPE AND LAT AMERI. IN ASIA, ONLY JAPAN AND NEPAL HAVE BEEN WILLG TO SIGN ON.THERE ARE REAL LIMS TO WHAT OUTSIRS N DO TO SUPPORT QUEER ACTIVISTS AND MUNI UNTRI WHERE POLIL AND RELIG PRSUR MAKE ANY ASSERTN OF RIGHTS VERY DANGERO. THE AMERIN PRACTICE, DISNTUED DURG THE TMP ADMISTRATN, OF FLYG RABOW FLAGS AT EMBASSI TO MARK PRI MONTH RISKS JT RERCG IAS THAT THIS IS NEO-LONIAL PRSURE. AT A LOL LEVEL, ATRALIAN EMBASSI HAVE OFTEN BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE OF QUEER GROUPS, BUT THE ISSUE HAS BEEN SENDARY MOST DISCSNS OF HUMAN RIGHTS GLOBALLY. THE EXCEPTN IS POLICI AROUND HIV, WHERE ATRALIA HAS BEEN A SIGNIFINT PLAYER.ATRALIAN VELOPMENT NGOS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO REGNISE SOGI ISSU, EVEN THOUGH THEY OFTEN WORK UNTRI WHERE PERSECUTN IS GREATT. IN PART THIS IS DUE TO REMARKABLY LTLE TERT THE OUTSI WORLD THE TABLISHED QUEER MUNY ANISATNS ATRALIA WHO HAVE FAILED TO LOBBY POLICIANS AND MEDIA TO RPOND TO GLOBAL NCERNS. HOLDG WORLD PRI SYDNEY 2023 SHOULD LEAD TO A GREATER AWARENS.THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE—OR ARE THOUGHT TO BE—HOMOSEXUAL OR TRANS* FACE PERSECUTN, SOMETIM ATH, HAS REAL IMPLITNS FOR WHOM WE REGNISE AS SERVG POLIL ASYLUM. REFUGEE ADVOCY GROUPS ATRALIA HAVE ACTIVELY SUPPORTED A NUMBER OF APPLITNS FOR ASYLUM, BUT ATRALIA’S RERD GRANTG ASYLUM IS SLOW AND UNPREDICTABLE. IT IS MY HUNCH THAT OTHER UNTRI, NOTABLY CANADA AND SWEN, HAVE BEEN MORE WILLG TO ACKNOWLEDGE SEXUALY AND GENR EXPRSN AS GROUNDS FOR ASYLUM. IN THE AFTERMATH OF COVID-19, WHICH HAS LED TO YET FURTHER RCTNS ATRALIA’S REFUGEE TAKE, THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE FLEEG PERSECUTN SIMPLY FOR THEIR INTI N ONLY CREASE.DENNIS ALTMAN AM FASSA IS A PROFSORIAL FELLOW HUMAN SECURY AT LA TROBE UNIVERSY AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTUTE FOR HUMAN SECURY AT LA TROBE.THIS ARTICLE IS PUBLISHED UNR A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCE AND MAY BE REPUBLISHED WH ATTRIBUTN.RELATED ARTICL LGBTI RIGHTS AIBY TASHE JAKWA14 MAY 2018WHEN TO LGBTI RIGHTS AI, ARGUG AGAST WTERN TERVENTNISM IS A ONT FOR ADVOTG THE MATENANCE OF DISCRIMATORY ANTI-LGBTI LEGISLATN. AHEAD OF THE INTERNATNAL DAY AGAST HOMOPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA AND BIPHOBIA, SHOULD BE ARGUED THAT IS HOMOPHOBIA RATHER THAN HOMOSEXUALY THAT IS UN-AIN. WHEN THE STATE KILLS: PERSECUTN OF SEXUAL MORIBY MAI SATO AND CHRISTOPHER ALEXANR17 JUNE 2021IN EARLY 2021, IRANIAN ALI FAZELI MONFARED, WAS ALLEGEDLY BEHEAD BY HIS RELATIV FOR BEG GAY. HIS RELATIV FOUND OUT ABOUT ALI’S SEXUALY BEE HE HAD DISCLOSED HIS “MENTAL ILLNS”—HOMOSEXUALY— ORR TO BE EXEMPT OM PULSORY ARY SERVICE. TRANSGENR INCLN AND THE TROUBLG FINA BAN ON TRANS WOMEN THE WOMEN’S CATEGORY

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FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE

Current statSce May 1, 1997Legal In 1997 the High Court of Atralia led that Tasmania's anti-gay laws were nsistent wh feral law, and Tasmania (the fal jurisdictn wh ntrary laws) was forced to crimalise by RegnHomosexual activy was ferally crimalized by the Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994, although some lol state laws remaed nsent until marriage Atralia? Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex (LGBTI) people Atralia still experience discrimatn, harassment and hostily many parts of everyday life; public, at work and study, accsg health and other servic and securg proper regnn of their sex official documents. In this vio om 1977, a gay rights activist speaks about the legislatns that were passed South Atralia and the Atralian Capal Terrory that repealed some of the discrimatory laws that were place until if you n fd out when the amendments were passed and when other Atralian stat and terrori followed of broadst: 1977CopyrightMetadata © Atralian Broadstg Corporatn and Edutn Servic Atralia Ltd 2012 (except where otherwise dited).

WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTSIT IS LIKELY THE MPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY HAS NTRIBUTED TO ATRALIANS BEG MORE PROGRSIVE, AS SHOWN THIS YEAR’S HILDA SURVEYBY DR HANNAH MCCANN, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE SELECTN TO:THE 2017 HOEHOLD, INE AND LABOUR DYNAMICS ATRALIA (HILDA) SURVEY SHOWS THAT, SCE 2005, ATTUS TOWARD MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN HAVE BEE MORE PROGRSIVE.ONE OF THE BIGGT CHANG NCERNS ATTUS TOWARD THE RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUAL UPL. A PARISON OF ATTUS 2005 VERS 2015 SHOWS THAT BOTH MEN AND WOMEN ARE NOW MORE LIKELY TO AGREE WH THE STATEMENT: “HOMOSEXUAL UPL SHOULD HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS HETEROSEXUAL UPL DO.’’ WH SRG RANGG OM 1 (STRONG DISAGREEMENT) TO 7 (STRONG AGREEMENT), MEN’S ATTUS HAVE SHIFTED OM 3.3 (2005) TO 4.8 (2015), AND WOMEN’S ATTUS OM 4.0 (2005) TO 5.3 (2015). THE RULTS ALSO SHOW WE ARE NOW MORE POSIVE ABOUT UNMARRIED UPL LIVG TOGETHER AND WOMEN RAISG CHILDREN AS SGLE PARENTS.THE 2017 HILDA SURVEY POTS TO A SHIFT TOWARDS MORE PROGRSIVE VALU AMONG ATRALIANS. ANIMATN: LUCY FAHEY / VOICEOVER: CHRIS HATZISBUT WHY HAS A SHIFT TOWARD LS TRADNAL VIEWPOTS OCCURRED WHEN NSERVATIVE AND RIGHT-WG POLIL GROUPS SEEM TO BE GROWG ACROSS THE WORLD? WHILE IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIVELY EXPLA BROAD ATTUDAL SHIFTS, A FEW FACTORS N HELP MAKE SENSE OF THEM.ALTHOUGH IS UNCLEAR WHETHER PARTICIPANTS TERPRETED THE QUTN AS DIRECTLY RELATED TO GAY MARRIAGE, WE KNOW THAT TERNATNAL MPAIGNS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY HAVE BROUGHT HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS TO THE FOREONT OF PUBLIC BATE. ATRALIA'S GENERATNAL WEALTH DIVI IS BGREAD MOREA STAED MPAIGNIN 1976 THE HISTORY OF SEXUALY VOLUME 1, MICHEL FOUULT FAMOLY ARGUED THAT IS THE PROHIBN OF SEXUALY THAT PARADOXILLY CREAS DISCSN OF THE TOPIC. ALTHOUGH MARRIAGE EQUALY HAS NOT E TO PASS ATRALIA, ENDLS DISCSN HAS BEEN GENERATED ON THE SUBJECT, NOT LEAST BEE A STAED MPAIGN AROSE THE WAKE OF THE OVERT BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TRODUCED BY FORMER PRIME MISTER JOHN HOWARD.IN RPONSE TO HOWARD’S CHANG TO THE MARRIAGE ACT 2004, WHICH NOW SE MARRIAGE FED AS ‘THE UNN OF A MAN AND A WOMAN TO THE EXCLN OF ALL OTHERS’, THE ATRALIAN MARRIAGE EQUALY MPAIGN GROUP FORMED. SCE THEN THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN HEATED BAT PARLIAMENT AND THE MEDIA, SEVERAL PARLIAMENTARY QUIRI, THOANDS OF PEOPLE PROTTG THE STREETS, ONLE PETNS AND THE FORMATN OF NUMERO LOBBYG AND MPAIGN GROUPS. SCE THE HOWARD GOVERNMENT’S CHANG TO THE MARRIAGE ACT 2004, WHICH FED MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, THERE HAS BEEN A STAED MPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY ATRALIA. PICTURE: LEVI SNRS/UNSPLASHIN 2013 THE ATRALIAN CAPAL TERRORY LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY BRIEFLY PASSED A MARRIAGE EQUALY LG THAT SAW 31 UPL MARRY, ONLY TO BE OVERTURNED BY THE FERAL GOVERNMENT WH A WEEK. FOR THE LOVE OF THE PUNTREAD MOREWH MANY UNTRI LEGALISG MARRIAGE EQUALY – CLUDG CANADA (2005), NEW ZEALAND (2013) AND THE UNED STAT (2015) – THE NSENS AMONG MANY SEEMS TO BE THAT, SPE THE GOVERNMENT’S REFAL, MARRIAGE EQUALY ATRALIA IS EVABLE. NOTABLY THERE HAS BEEN SOME BATE WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER (LGBTQ) MUNI ABOUT WHETHER MARRIAGE EQUALY OUGHT TO BE CENTRAL TO THEIR ACTIVISM. HOWEVER, EVEN THIS BATE REVEALS THE MPAIGN HAS LED TO GREATER ATTENTN ON THE RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUAL UPL.GAY UPL ON THE RISETHE NUMBER OF ATRALIANS WHO REPORT INTIFYG AS PART OF A GAY OR LBIAN UPLE IS ALSO CREASG, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT ALSO BE RELATED TO THE EQUAL MARRIAGE BATE. THE 2016 CENS DATA REVEALED A HUGE 42 PER CENT RISE UPL INTIFYG AS SAME-SEX SCE 2011. GENR THEORIST JUDH BUTLER HAS ARGUED THAT GREATER SOCIAL REGNN OF LGBTQ ISSU OPENS UP CULTURAL SPACE FOR MORE PEOPLE TO OPENLY INTIFY AS LGBTQ. IN TURN, THIS NTRIBUT TO MORE CULTURAL VISIBILY, BE THAT MASTREAM MEDIA OR TERPERSONAL NTEXTS, AND MORE SPACE FOR LGBTQ INTIFITN. MORE ATRALIANS ARE INTIFYG AS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR OR QUEER. PICTURE: TOM THE PHOTOGRAPHER/UNSPLASHWHILE A POSIVE CHANGE DISURSE AROUND THE RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUALS DON’T ‘MAKE’ PEOPLE GAY OR LBIAN, DO ALLOW GREATER ROOM FOR PEOPLE TO INTIFY THE WAYS. THIS MAY MEAN THAT, GENERAL, DIVIDUALS ARE NOW MORE LIKELY TO KNOW SOMEONE WHO INTIFI AS GAY OR LBIAN THEIR FAY OR SOCIAL WORK, WHICH ULD BE FLUENCG ATTUS TOWARD THE QUTN OF HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS. INED GIVEN THE RERCG NATURE OF GREATER LGBTQ REGNN, THIS MAY HELP TO EXPLA THE STEADY UPWARD TREND RULTS OVER TIME. WHY PARLIAMENT SHOULD CI ON SAME SEX MARRIAGEREAD MOREAS GAYLE RUB INTIFIED HER FAMO SAY THKG SEX, FIRST PUBLISHED 1984, ATTUS TOWARD UNMARRIED UPL AND GAY AND LBIAN UPL THE USA ARE AN AREA OF NTTATN. SHE ARGUED THAT RELATNSHIPS AND PARTICULAR SEXUAL ACTS EXIST WH A HIERARCHY – WH SOME ARRANGEMENTS AND ACTS SEEN AS MORE ACCEPTABLE THAN OTHERS. THE CHANGE TOWARD MORE PROGRSIVE ATTUS HIGHLIGHTED BY THE HILDA SURVEY DATA SUGGTS THAT PERHAPS THE MPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY, AND TURN THE GREATER NUMBERS OF PEOPLE INTIFYG AS PART OF GAY AND LBIAN UPL, MIGHT BE HAVG SOME KD OF IMPACT. HOWEVER, WHAT THE HILDA SURVEY DO NOT REVEAL IS WHETHER ATTUS TOWARD SGLE HOMOSEXUAL PEOPLE, PEOPLE POLYAMORO RELATNSHIPS, OR THOSE WHO INTIFY ELSEWHERE ON THE LGBTQ SPECTM ARE ALSO CHANGG FOR THE BETTER. PERHAPS THE LSON HERE IS THAT IF MPAIGNS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE MAKE A REAL IMPACT ON ATTUS, THEN WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THE MOVEMENTS REGNISE A DIVERSY OF INTI. WHOUT THIS, THE RISK IS THAT NEW HIERARCHI OF ACCEPTABILY WILL FORM THE WAKE OF OTHER SIGNIFINT GAS. BANNER IMAGE: GETTY IMAGFIRST PUBLISHED ON 1 AUGT 2017 INSI BSSAME SEX MARRIAGE GAY RIGHTSLGBTIQA+HILDAHILDA 2017START THE NVERSATN ON FACEBOOKLOADG NVERSATN...SORRY, SOMETHG PREVENTED THE FACEBOOK MENTS FEED OM LOADG. INSI BSFEATUREDDR HANNAH MCCANNSCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND POLIL SCIENC, FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE: FACEBOOKTWTERLKEDINMEDIA AND REPUBLITNTERMS OF ECLOSEREPUBLISH THIS ARTICLE WE BELIEVE THE EE FLOW OF RMATN. THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNR A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTN-NO DERIVATIV 3.0 ATRALIA (CC BY-ND 3.0 AU), SO YOU N REPUBLISH OUR ARTICL FOR EE, ONLE OR PRT.ALL REPUBLISHED ARTICL MT BE ATTRIBUTED THE FOLLOWG WAY AND NTA LKS TO BOTH THE SE AND ORIGAL ARTICLE: “THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED ON PURSU. READ THE ORIGAL ARTICLE.”WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTS

The Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994 formally legalised homosexualy across Atralia, overridg state laws.

The 1969 Stonewall Rts New York saw hundreds of LGBTI people revolt agast their treatment by police, and saw the birth of the gay rights movement, as was lled at the time. The event the next year was peaceful and succsful, and soon beme a popular Sydney event: the Gay and Lbian Mardis Gras.

Even though homosexualy was still a crime, 1982 the Wran ernment New South Wal passed an amendment to the Anti-Discrimatn Act 1977, makg illegal to discrimate agast LGBTI people.

ATRALIAN OUTLOOK HOME ATRALIAN OUTLOOK PRI MONTH: LGBTQ RIGHTS THE SPOTLIGHTIN THIS SECTN GO BACK TO ATRALIAN OUTLOOKABOUTPRI MONTH: LGBTQ RIGHTS THE SPOTLIGHT11 JUN 2021BY PROFSOR DENNIS ALTMAN AM FASSAANALYSIS SHAREFACEBOOKTWTERLKEDJUNE MARKS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1969 STONEWALL RTS, WHEN RISTANCE TO A POLICE RAID ON A GAY BAR SPARKED THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEW YORK GAY LIBERATN FRONT. IN ATRALIA THERE IS LTLE AWARENS OF THE HISTORY OF QUEER ADVOCY. PRI MONTH, RATHER LIKE MOTHERS’ AND FATHERS’ DAY, IS A PRODUCT OF AMERIN MERCIALISM. IN THE WTERN WORLD, BS AND POLICIANS ARE QUICK TO E THE CELEBRATN TO PROCLAIM THEIR SUPPORT FOR WHAT IS NOW LLED THE LGBTIQ MUNY. AGA, THIS IS A TERM BASED ON WTERN ASSUMPTNS, AND I PREFER THE ACRONYM SOGI, REFERRG TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR EXPRSN, WHICH IS ED BY THE UNED NATNS HUMAN RIGHT COUNCIL AND BETTER PTUR THE RANGE OF DIVERSY THAT IS VOLVED.PRINT JOE BIN, REGNISG THE MONTH, CLARED THAT HE “WILL NOT RT UNTIL FULL EQUALY FOR LGBTQ+ AMERINS IS FALLY ACHIEVED AND DIFIED TO LAW.” HARD TO IMAGE PRIME MISTER STT MORRISON MAKG THE SAME PLEDGE – THIS IS THE MAN WHO WALKED OUT OF THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV TO AVOID VOTG FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AFTER A MAJORY OF HIS NSTUENTS SUPPORTED . BUT LOL UNIVERSI, LAW FIRMS, AND STATE ERNMENTS WILL UNDOUBTEDLY E THE OPPORTUNY TO ANNOUNCE THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE QUEER MUNY.ALTHOUGH THERE ARE STILL AREAS OF DISCRIMATN, MOST NOTABLY AROUND TRANS* PEOPLE, VERY NSIRABLE STEPS HAVE BEEN MA OVER THE PAST FEW S TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF QUEER PEOPLE ATRALIA. THE SUATN MOST PARTS OF THE WORLD IS VERY DIFFERENT.THE LAST HAS SEEN BOTH AN ASSERTN OF QUEER RIGHTS TERNATNAL FORA AND A RRPONDG BACKLASH OM UNTRI CLUDG RSIA AND MOST AIN AND MLIM STAT. UNFORTUNATELY, FENCE OF SEXUAL AND GENR DIVERSY, WHICH EXISTS MOST SOCIETI OF WHICH WE ARE AWARE, HAS BEE SPEGOATED AS WTERN IMPERIALISM. IN MANY FORMER BRISH LONI, POLIL AND RELIG LEARS FEND LAWS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVUR THE NAME OF TRADNAL VALU, EVEN THOUGH THE LAWS WERE ACTUALLY TRODUCED BY THE LONISERS.IN PARTS OF THE WORLD, GLOBAL ATTENTN TO SOGI ISSU HAS RULTED CREASED PERSECUTN. THIS IS PARTICULARLY EVINT INDONIA, WHERE POLICIANS HAVE CLAIMED “LGBT” REPRENTS ATTACKS ON NATNAL AND FAY VALU. THE HEAD OF INDONIA’S POPULATN AND FAY PLANNG AGENCY NOIJAL LABELLED LGBT CIZENS THE “MA ENEMY OF NATNAL VELOPMENT.” WHILE THERE IS A LARGE AND VISIBLE QUEER MUNY UNTRI SUCH AS THAILAND AND THE PHILIPP, EVEN RICH UNTRI ASIA, SUCH AS SOUTH KOREA AND SGAPORE, REMA HOSTILE TO QUEER RIGHTS. SGAPORE, LIKE MALAYSIA, RETAS THE BRISH-ERA LAWS CRIMALISG HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVUR.THERE ARE ONGOG MPAIGNS TO OVERTURN THE LAWS, MOST NOTABLY SOME CARIBBEAN AND AIN STAT, BUT THE REACTN IS OFTEN HARSH. EARLIER THIS YEAR, 21 PEOPLE WERE ARRTED GHANA AFTER POLICE STORMED A WORKSHOP FOR LGBT+ PEOPLE AND HELD THEM CTODY FOR ALMOST TWO WEEKS. IN MUCH OF THE MIDDLE EAST, THERE HAS BEEN CREASG PERSECUTN OF PEOPLE SEEN AS GAY OR TRANS*.LEGAL CHANG ARE NOT THEMSELV SUFFICIENT. AS MARK GEVISSER WROTE, “SOUTH AI WAS FAMOLY THE FIRST UNTRY THE WORLD TO EXPLICLY OUTLAW DISCRIMATN ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN S NSTUTN ( 1996), AND ONE OF THE FIRST TO PERM SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (2006). WOMEN, TOO, HAVE FULL EQUALY AND PROTECTN UNR THE LAW. YET WE HAVE ONE OF THE HIGHT RAT OF GENR-BASED VLENCE THE WORLD, A SUBSET OF WHICH IS THE ABE OF GENR-NONNFORMG PEOPLE: BUTCH LBIANS WHO ARE SUBJECT TO WHAT IS TERMED ‘PUNIVE RAPE,’ AND FEMME MEN OR TRANS WOMEN WHO ARE BEATEN, RAPED, OR MURRED AT HORRIFYG RAT.”ATRALIA’S RPONSIBILIAS A MEMBER OF THE UNED NATNS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSN BETWEEN 2018 AND 2020, ATRALIA WAS A NSISTENT SUPPORTER OF MOV TO CLU SOGI ISSU AS RE BS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. ATRALIA IS A MEMBER OF THE UNED NATNS LGBTI RE GROUP, -CHAIRED BY ARGENTA AND THE NETHERLANDS, WHICH CLUS 33 MEMBER STAT, PRIMARILY OM EUROPE AND LAT AMERI. IN ASIA, ONLY JAPAN AND NEPAL HAVE BEEN WILLG TO SIGN ON.THERE ARE REAL LIMS TO WHAT OUTSIRS N DO TO SUPPORT QUEER ACTIVISTS AND MUNI UNTRI WHERE POLIL AND RELIG PRSUR MAKE ANY ASSERTN OF RIGHTS VERY DANGERO. THE AMERIN PRACTICE, DISNTUED DURG THE TMP ADMISTRATN, OF FLYG RABOW FLAGS AT EMBASSI TO MARK PRI MONTH RISKS JT RERCG IAS THAT THIS IS NEO-LONIAL PRSURE. AT A LOL LEVEL, ATRALIAN EMBASSI HAVE OFTEN BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE OF QUEER GROUPS, BUT THE ISSUE HAS BEEN SENDARY MOST DISCSNS OF HUMAN RIGHTS GLOBALLY. THE EXCEPTN IS POLICI AROUND HIV, WHERE ATRALIA HAS BEEN A SIGNIFINT PLAYER.ATRALIAN VELOPMENT NGOS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO REGNISE SOGI ISSU, EVEN THOUGH THEY OFTEN WORK UNTRI WHERE PERSECUTN IS GREATT. IN PART THIS IS DUE TO REMARKABLY LTLE TERT THE OUTSI WORLD THE TABLISHED QUEER MUNY ANISATNS ATRALIA WHO HAVE FAILED TO LOBBY POLICIANS AND MEDIA TO RPOND TO GLOBAL NCERNS. HOLDG WORLD PRI SYDNEY 2023 SHOULD LEAD TO A GREATER AWARENS.THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE—OR ARE THOUGHT TO BE—HOMOSEXUAL OR TRANS* FACE PERSECUTN, SOMETIM ATH, HAS REAL IMPLITNS FOR WHOM WE REGNISE AS SERVG POLIL ASYLUM. REFUGEE ADVOCY GROUPS ATRALIA HAVE ACTIVELY SUPPORTED A NUMBER OF APPLITNS FOR ASYLUM, BUT ATRALIA’S RERD GRANTG ASYLUM IS SLOW AND UNPREDICTABLE. IT IS MY HUNCH THAT OTHER UNTRI, NOTABLY CANADA AND SWEN, HAVE BEEN MORE WILLG TO ACKNOWLEDGE SEXUALY AND GENR EXPRSN AS GROUNDS FOR ASYLUM. IN THE AFTERMATH OF COVID-19, WHICH HAS LED TO YET FURTHER RCTNS ATRALIA’S REFUGEE TAKE, THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE FLEEG PERSECUTN SIMPLY FOR THEIR INTI N ONLY CREASE.DENNIS ALTMAN AM FASSA IS A PROFSORIAL FELLOW HUMAN SECURY AT LA TROBE UNIVERSY AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTUTE FOR HUMAN SECURY AT LA TROBE.THIS ARTICLE IS PUBLISHED UNR A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCE AND MAY BE REPUBLISHED WH ATTRIBUTN.RELATED ARTICL LGBTI RIGHTS AIBY TASHE JAKWA14 MAY 2018WHEN TO LGBTI RIGHTS AI, ARGUG AGAST WTERN TERVENTNISM IS A ONT FOR ADVOTG THE MATENANCE OF DISCRIMATORY ANTI-LGBTI LEGISLATN. AHEAD OF THE INTERNATNAL DAY AGAST HOMOPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA AND BIPHOBIA, SHOULD BE ARGUED THAT IS HOMOPHOBIA RATHER THAN HOMOSEXUALY THAT IS UN-AIN. WHEN THE STATE KILLS: PERSECUTN OF SEXUAL MORIBY MAI SATO AND CHRISTOPHER ALEXANR17 JUNE 2021IN EARLY 2021, IRANIAN ALI FAZELI MONFARED, WAS ALLEGEDLY BEHEAD BY HIS RELATIV FOR BEG GAY. HIS RELATIV FOUND OUT ABOUT ALI’S SEXUALY BEE HE HAD DISCLOSED HIS “MENTAL ILLNS”—HOMOSEXUALY— ORR TO BE EXEMPT OM PULSORY ARY SERVICE. TRANSGENR INCLN AND THE TROUBLG FINA BAN ON TRANS WOMEN THE WOMEN’S CATEGORY

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Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras – SGLMG is one of the olst and ntuoly operatg LGBTQ+ anizatns Atralia and was built on the foundatns laid by early muny activists who fought for queer rights a time of opprsn. Midsumma Ftival - this annual ftival  Melbourne is one of Atralia’s leadg and long-nng LGBTQ+ events and is nsired alongsi Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras as one of the major pri celebratns the untry. To realise human rights Atralia, we mt end the eply entrenched discrimatn experienced by lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex over ten years, the Human Rights Law Centre operated a dited program of work to progrs the rights of LGBTI people Atralia.

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