Andrew Gay | Atralian War Memorial

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• THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
• 50 YEARS ON: HOW THE STONEWALL RTS SPIRED ATRALIA'S LGBTIQ+ MOVEMENTIN 1969, A RT A NEW YORK BAR SPARKED A GLOBAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HALF A CENTURY ON, THOSE VOLVED THE ATRALIAN MPAIGN TELL SBS NEWS WHAT IMPACT HAD.THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK AND SYDNEY MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTY IMAG/AAPIN THE EARLY HOURS OF 28 JUNE 1969, AFTER A WARM NEW YORK NIGHT, A GROUP OF LGBTIQ+ LOLS CID TO STAND UP TO POLICE ABE AT THE CY'S NOW-LEGENDARY STONEWALL INN.THEIR ACTNS WOULD CHANGE THE URSE OF GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD, CLUDG AS FAR AWAY AS ATRALIA.THIS WEEK MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS.PATRONS OF THE STONEWALL INN ON THE NIGHT OF THE 1969 RTS. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGFIGHTG BACKIN LATE 1960S AMERI, HOMOSEXUALY WAS STILL SEEN AS A MENTAL ILLNS AND GAY SEX WAS ILLEGAL EXCEPT ILLOIS.FEW VENU WELED OPENLY GAY AMERINS, AND EXCEPTNS - CLUDG THE MAFIA-N STONEWALL INN NEW YORK'S GREENWICH VILLAGE - OFTEN ATTRACTED THE ATTENTN OF THORI.POLICE RAIDS WERE ED TO EXPOSE THOSE WHO WERE GAY AND MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF MEN WHO CHOSE TO CROSS-DRS. BUT THGS CHANGED WHEN A GROUP OF GAY MEN AND WOMEN, DRAG QUEENS, AND TRANSGENR NEW YORKERS CHOSE TO FIGHT BACK AGAST OFFICERS WHO HAD RAID THE BAR FOR THE SEND TIME THAT WEEK.A CROWD ATTEMPTS TO IMPE POLICE ARRTS OUTSI THE STONEWALL INN GREENWICH VILLAGE 1969. SOURCE: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/GETTY IMAG"THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK," ATRALIAN LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST GARRY WOTHERSPOON TOLD SBS NEWS THIS WEEK.STONEWALL PATRONS REFED TO STAND LE AND HAVE THEIR IDS - AND THEIR BODI - CHECKED BY POLICE.A CROWD GATHERED, SHOUTG BEGAN, AND A SCUFFLE BROKE OUT. POLICE BATONS WERE DRAWN AND VLENT PROTTS AND MONSTRATNS LASTED FOR MORE THAN THREE DAYS. "IT BEME THE SYMBOLIC START OF THE FIGHT FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD. IT WAS LIKE A STONE DROPPED A POND AND S RIPPL SPREAD."THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK. - GARRY WOTHERSPOON, ATRALIAN ACTIVISTMARK SEGAL PARTICIPATED THE RTS. HE TOLD AFP: "IT WAS THE FIRST TIME OUR MUNY IMPRISONED THE POLICE, WHO HAD ALWAYS IMPRISONED BEFORE".POLICE VLENCE NEAR THE STONEWALL INN 1970. SOURCE: AAPA YEAR AFTER THE RTS, JUNE 1970, NEW YORK STAGED S FIRST EVER GAY PRI PARA CELEBRATG THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY.FROM STONEWALL TO SYDNEYBEFORE LONG, THE "RIPPL" OF STONEWALL H ATRALIA, WHERE LGBTIQ+ MOMENTUM HAD BEEN BUILDG, BUT DISCRIMATN REMAED WISPREAD.IN 1970, ATRALIANS CHRISTABEL POLL AND JOHN WARE "ME OUT" THE ATRALIAN NEWSPAPER AND ANNOUNCED THE FORMATN OF CAMP; THE CAMPAIGN AGAST MORAL PERSECUTN.NEW YORK'S STONEWALL INN. SOURCE: AAP"FROM THERE, ACTIVISM STARTED," SAID MR WOTHERSPOON, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF CAMP S EARLY DAYS."CAMP STARTED TO AL WH SEVERAL THGS, SUCH AS THE MEDIL PROFSN WHICH DID AVERSN THERAPY AND PSYCHOSURGERY, TO AL WH THE LAW WHICH CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY, TO AL WH THE CHURCH WHICH REGARD AS SFUL," HE SAID.AN EARLY MARDI GRAS. SOURCE: SUPPLIEDTHEN MARCH 1978, ATRALIANS KEN DAVIS AND ANNE TALVE RECEIVED A LETTER OM THE SAN FRANCIS GAY FREEDOM DAY ANISERS LLG ON PEOPLE OVERSEAS TO STAND UP FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS AND MEMORATE THE STONEWALL RTS."AS REPRENTATIV OF SAN FRANCIS'S LARGE AND ACTIVE GAY MUNY, WE ARE ENURAGG WORLDWI ACTIVI FOR GAY RIGHTS JUNE 25TH AND THE WEEK BEFORE ORR TO PRENT THE LARGT AND MOST UNIFIED SHOW OF SUPPORT HISTORY," THE LETTER READ.KEN DAVIS SYDNEY'S TAYLOR SQUARE THIS WEEK. SOURCE: EMMA LAWSON/SBS NEWSIT WAS ONE ELEMENT THAT LED TO THE FIRST MARDI GRAS BEG HELD SYDNEY LATER THAT YEAR."WE CID TO HAVE A FOM AND THEN A MARCH, AND WE CID TO HAVE A NIGHT TIME PARTY TAYLOR SQUARE, A CELEBRATN, NOT A MONSTRATN," MR DAVIS - WHO BEME ONE OF THE ORIGAL 78ERS - TOLD SBS NEWS.BUT THE EVENTS WERE MET WH POLICE VLENCE AND ARRTS.POLICE NONT PARTICIPANTS. SOURCE: SUPPLIED"THE UNEXPECTED POLICE ATTACK ON THAT MARDI GRAS WAS VERY TRMATIC, SO WE REALISED ON THE NTH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL AMERI, WE WERE A SIAR SORT OF NFLICT WH POLICE POWER SYDNEY," MR DAVIS SAID."THE FACT WE WERE ATTACKED ... A VERY UNPROVOKED AND VLENT ATTACK REALLY JT GALVANISED AND THEN WE REALISED THAT WE HAD THIS ECHO OF THE STONEWALL REBELLN."THE FOLLOWG YEAR, UP TO 3,000 PEOPLE MARCHED AN CINT-EE PARA.MARDI GRAS WENT ON TO BEE AN ANNUAL EVENT SYDNEY AND TO THIS DAY RETAS THE SPIR OF BOTH PROTT AND CELEBRATN ACROSS THE UNTRY.SYDNEY IS CURRENTLY BIDDG TO BE THE HOST OF WORLDPRI 2023, AND AFTER THE LEGACY OF STONEWALL, JUNE IS NSIRED AS PRI MONTH AROUND THE WORLD.MEMBERS OF THE TIWI ISLANDS TRANSGENR MUNY AT MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTYIN 2018, NSW POLICE MISSNER MICHAEL FULLER GAVE AN OFFICIAL APOLOGY TO SYDNEY'S 78ERS OF BEHALF OF THE FORCE.AND EARLIER THIS MONTH, NEW YORK CY’S POLICE MISSNER JAM O’NEILL APOLOGISED FOR THE STONEWALL RAID WHICH SPARKED THE ORIGAL RT, SAYG “THE ACTNS TAKEN BY THE NYPD WERE WRONG”.'MORE WORK TO DO ATRALIA'REFLECTG ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL, MR WOTHERSPOON SAID THE EVENTS OF 28 JUNE 1969 NTUE TO HAVE AN IMPACT."[STONEWALL] BUILT MOMENTUM AND GRADUALLY ATTUS CHANGED THE WIR SOCIETY," HE SAID.BUT WHILE PROGRS HAD BEEN SIGNIFINT, HE SAID THERE ARE STILL "BLACK SPOTS" AROUND LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ATRALIA.HE SAID THE UNTRY NEED STRONGER LAWS "WHICH PROTECT LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE OM DISCRIMATN" AND THAT WE NEED TO TAKE MORE "REFUGE WHO ARE FLEEG BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY".THE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT BILL PASS THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV 2017. SOURCE: AAPTHE SENTIMENT WAS ECHOED BY MR DAVIS."WE'VE MA THE EXTRAORDARY GAS, NOW WE N GET MARRIED ... [BUT] I THK NOW 'S IMPORTANT TO NOT BE PLACENT.""I THK 50 YEARS HAS BEEN A BIG CYCLE BUT WE SHOULDN'T ASSUME THAT THE FUTURE IS EASY."REARS SEEKG SUPPORT N FD A LIST OF LGBTIQ+ SERVIC AT ADDNAL REPORTG: AFPSHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 27 JUNE 2019 4:55PMUPDATED 28 JUNE 2019 10:32AMBY EMMA LAWSON, NICK BAKERTAGSATRALIANORTH AMERISHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOUSTEPHANIE WAS TOLD SHE HAD LS THAN FIVE MONTHS TO LIVE. HERE'S WHAT SHE DID NEXTHEALTHLEWIS CAPALDI NCELS UPG SHOWS TO GET 'MENTAL AND PHYSIL HEALTH ORR'WORLDTHERE'S SOMETHG 'SULTG' ABOUT THIS PHOTO. CAN YOU SPOT ?ATRALIAWHY A MAP LED THIS UNTRY TO BAN THE NEW BARBIE MOVIEWORLDMY SONS BOTH TOLD ME THEY WERE GAY. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED NEXTLIFEIN A WORLD FIRST, MDMA AND PSILOCYB HAVE BEEN RECLASSIFIED AS MEDICE ATRALIAHEALTHYOUR TAX RETURN WILL LOOK A LTLE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOWATRALIATHE NEW FANCIAL YEAR IS HERE. FROM SUPERANNUATN TO THE PENSN, HERE'S WHAT'S CHANGGATRALIATOPICS
• COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'
• ATRALIA’S LGBT-ONLY ISLANDPARADISE FOUNDMARRIAGE EQUALY DISCRIMATN LED A GROUP OF ATRALIAN ACTIVISTS TO SET THEIR RABOW FLAG ON CATO ISLAND. THIS ‘HOMELAND’ EVEN HAS A GLORIA GAYNOR ANTHEM.NA STROCHLICUPDATED OCT. 11, 2019 3:47PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 18, 2015 6:45AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTWHEN ATRALIA REFED TO ALLOW S GAY CIZENS EQUAL RIGHTS TO MARRIAGE, A GROUP OF ACTIVISTS SERTED THE UNTRY, SAILED 200 NTIL TO AN ISLAND OFF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF AND HOISTED A RABOW FLAG THE HIGHT SPOT THEY ULD FD.THEY CLARED THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS.THE IMPET ME 2004 DURG THE BRISBANE GAY PRI FTIVAL, WHEN A LLECTIVE OF IENDS CID THAT WHOUT BEG GRANTED LEGAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS THEY WOULD LEAVE AND START THEIR OWN MORE CLIVE UNTRY.NA STROCHLIC

THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS

They were om the Gay Ex-Servic Associatn, and they rried a wreath dited to ‘all brothers and sisters who died durg the wars’—but they would never get to lay at the shre. “There were thoands of ex-servicemen who were mp, I thk I went through 300 of them myself, ” he told the magaze, a py of which is prerved by the Atralian Lbian and Gay Archiv. “The irony, of urse, was that they end up an all-male environment wh limed opportuny for female pany – the potential for homo-sex had never been greater, ” Smaal says.

“It was amazg the number of gay people the POW mp, ” the Atralian serviceman told Outrage, “well not so much gay as bisexual – bee they uldn’t get a woman they’d have a man. “I do not believe I have ever loved a woman more eply than my mate, ” said one Atralian WWII veteran, who went on to assert the relatnship wasn't homosexual. The gay Jewish doctor – who was later exiled by the Nazis – wrote of how German soldiers would risk severe reprimand to sneak off to the lols’ ho occupied France to have sex.

Rearch by Smaal and his lleague, renowned Atralian LGBT+ historian Graham Willett, found that the US reported to Atralia that they had disvered a large number of servicemen New Guea havg gay sex – and that Atralians were volved. The Gay Ex-Servic Associatn was followed by 'G-force' 1996 and then by DEFGLIS 2002 – the Defence Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr and Intersex Informatn Service. In the early hours of 28 June 1969, after a warm New York night, a group of LGBTIQ+ lols cid to stand up to police abe at the cy's now-legendary Stonewall actns would change the urse of gay rights around the world, cludg as far away as week marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts.

50 YEARS ON: HOW THE STONEWALL RTS SPIRED ATRALIA'S LGBTIQ+ MOVEMENTIN 1969, A RT A NEW YORK BAR SPARKED A GLOBAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HALF A CENTURY ON, THOSE VOLVED THE ATRALIAN MPAIGN TELL SBS NEWS WHAT IMPACT HAD.THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK AND SYDNEY MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTY IMAG/AAPIN THE EARLY HOURS OF 28 JUNE 1969, AFTER A WARM NEW YORK NIGHT, A GROUP OF LGBTIQ+ LOLS CID TO STAND UP TO POLICE ABE AT THE CY'S NOW-LEGENDARY STONEWALL INN.THEIR ACTNS WOULD CHANGE THE URSE OF GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD, CLUDG AS FAR AWAY AS ATRALIA.THIS WEEK MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS.PATRONS OF THE STONEWALL INN ON THE NIGHT OF THE 1969 RTS. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGFIGHTG BACKIN LATE 1960S AMERI, HOMOSEXUALY WAS STILL SEEN AS A MENTAL ILLNS AND GAY SEX WAS ILLEGAL EXCEPT ILLOIS.FEW VENU WELED OPENLY GAY AMERINS, AND EXCEPTNS - CLUDG THE MAFIA-N STONEWALL INN NEW YORK'S GREENWICH VILLAGE - OFTEN ATTRACTED THE ATTENTN OF THORI.POLICE RAIDS WERE ED TO EXPOSE THOSE WHO WERE GAY AND MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF MEN WHO CHOSE TO CROSS-DRS. BUT THGS CHANGED WHEN A GROUP OF GAY MEN AND WOMEN, DRAG QUEENS, AND TRANSGENR NEW YORKERS CHOSE TO FIGHT BACK AGAST OFFICERS WHO HAD RAID THE BAR FOR THE SEND TIME THAT WEEK.A CROWD ATTEMPTS TO IMPE POLICE ARRTS OUTSI THE STONEWALL INN GREENWICH VILLAGE 1969. SOURCE: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/GETTY IMAG"THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK," ATRALIAN LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST GARRY WOTHERSPOON TOLD SBS NEWS THIS WEEK.STONEWALL PATRONS REFED TO STAND LE AND HAVE THEIR IDS - AND THEIR BODI - CHECKED BY POLICE.A CROWD GATHERED, SHOUTG BEGAN, AND A SCUFFLE BROKE OUT. POLICE BATONS WERE DRAWN AND VLENT PROTTS AND MONSTRATNS LASTED FOR MORE THAN THREE DAYS. "IT BEME THE SYMBOLIC START OF THE FIGHT FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD. IT WAS LIKE A STONE DROPPED A POND AND S RIPPL SPREAD."THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK. - GARRY WOTHERSPOON, ATRALIAN ACTIVISTMARK SEGAL PARTICIPATED THE RTS. HE TOLD AFP: "IT WAS THE FIRST TIME OUR MUNY IMPRISONED THE POLICE, WHO HAD ALWAYS IMPRISONED BEFORE".POLICE VLENCE NEAR THE STONEWALL INN 1970. SOURCE: AAPA YEAR AFTER THE RTS, JUNE 1970, NEW YORK STAGED S FIRST EVER GAY PRI PARA CELEBRATG THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY.FROM STONEWALL TO SYDNEYBEFORE LONG, THE "RIPPL" OF STONEWALL H ATRALIA, WHERE LGBTIQ+ MOMENTUM HAD BEEN BUILDG, BUT DISCRIMATN REMAED WISPREAD.IN 1970, ATRALIANS CHRISTABEL POLL AND JOHN WARE "ME OUT" THE ATRALIAN NEWSPAPER AND ANNOUNCED THE FORMATN OF CAMP; THE CAMPAIGN AGAST MORAL PERSECUTN.NEW YORK'S STONEWALL INN. SOURCE: AAP"FROM THERE, ACTIVISM STARTED," SAID MR WOTHERSPOON, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF CAMP S EARLY DAYS."CAMP STARTED TO AL WH SEVERAL THGS, SUCH AS THE MEDIL PROFSN WHICH DID AVERSN THERAPY AND PSYCHOSURGERY, TO AL WH THE LAW WHICH CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY, TO AL WH THE CHURCH WHICH REGARD AS SFUL," HE SAID.AN EARLY MARDI GRAS. SOURCE: SUPPLIEDTHEN MARCH 1978, ATRALIANS KEN DAVIS AND ANNE TALVE RECEIVED A LETTER OM THE SAN FRANCIS GAY FREEDOM DAY ANISERS LLG ON PEOPLE OVERSEAS TO STAND UP FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS AND MEMORATE THE STONEWALL RTS."AS REPRENTATIV OF SAN FRANCIS'S LARGE AND ACTIVE GAY MUNY, WE ARE ENURAGG WORLDWI ACTIVI FOR GAY RIGHTS JUNE 25TH AND THE WEEK BEFORE ORR TO PRENT THE LARGT AND MOST UNIFIED SHOW OF SUPPORT HISTORY," THE LETTER READ.KEN DAVIS SYDNEY'S TAYLOR SQUARE THIS WEEK. SOURCE: EMMA LAWSON/SBS NEWSIT WAS ONE ELEMENT THAT LED TO THE FIRST MARDI GRAS BEG HELD SYDNEY LATER THAT YEAR."WE CID TO HAVE A FOM AND THEN A MARCH, AND WE CID TO HAVE A NIGHT TIME PARTY TAYLOR SQUARE, A CELEBRATN, NOT A MONSTRATN," MR DAVIS - WHO BEME ONE OF THE ORIGAL 78ERS - TOLD SBS NEWS.BUT THE EVENTS WERE MET WH POLICE VLENCE AND ARRTS.POLICE NONT PARTICIPANTS. SOURCE: SUPPLIED"THE UNEXPECTED POLICE ATTACK ON THAT MARDI GRAS WAS VERY TRMATIC, SO WE REALISED ON THE NTH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL AMERI, WE WERE A SIAR SORT OF NFLICT WH POLICE POWER SYDNEY," MR DAVIS SAID."THE FACT WE WERE ATTACKED ... A VERY UNPROVOKED AND VLENT ATTACK REALLY JT GALVANISED AND THEN WE REALISED THAT WE HAD THIS ECHO OF THE STONEWALL REBELLN."THE FOLLOWG YEAR, UP TO 3,000 PEOPLE MARCHED AN CINT-EE PARA.MARDI GRAS WENT ON TO BEE AN ANNUAL EVENT SYDNEY AND TO THIS DAY RETAS THE SPIR OF BOTH PROTT AND CELEBRATN ACROSS THE UNTRY.SYDNEY IS CURRENTLY BIDDG TO BE THE HOST OF WORLDPRI 2023, AND AFTER THE LEGACY OF STONEWALL, JUNE IS NSIRED AS PRI MONTH AROUND THE WORLD.MEMBERS OF THE TIWI ISLANDS TRANSGENR MUNY AT MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTYIN 2018, NSW POLICE MISSNER MICHAEL FULLER GAVE AN OFFICIAL APOLOGY TO SYDNEY'S 78ERS OF BEHALF OF THE FORCE.AND EARLIER THIS MONTH, NEW YORK CY’S POLICE MISSNER JAM O’NEILL APOLOGISED FOR THE STONEWALL RAID WHICH SPARKED THE ORIGAL RT, SAYG “THE ACTNS TAKEN BY THE NYPD WERE WRONG”.'MORE WORK TO DO ATRALIA'REFLECTG ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL, MR WOTHERSPOON SAID THE EVENTS OF 28 JUNE 1969 NTUE TO HAVE AN IMPACT."[STONEWALL] BUILT MOMENTUM AND GRADUALLY ATTUS CHANGED THE WIR SOCIETY," HE SAID.BUT WHILE PROGRS HAD BEEN SIGNIFINT, HE SAID THERE ARE STILL "BLACK SPOTS" AROUND LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ATRALIA.HE SAID THE UNTRY NEED STRONGER LAWS "WHICH PROTECT LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE OM DISCRIMATN" AND THAT WE NEED TO TAKE MORE "REFUGE WHO ARE FLEEG BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY".THE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT BILL PASS THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV 2017. SOURCE: AAPTHE SENTIMENT WAS ECHOED BY MR DAVIS."WE'VE MA THE EXTRAORDARY GAS, NOW WE N GET MARRIED ... [BUT] I THK NOW 'S IMPORTANT TO NOT BE PLACENT.""I THK 50 YEARS HAS BEEN A BIG CYCLE BUT WE SHOULDN'T ASSUME THAT THE FUTURE IS EASY."REARS SEEKG SUPPORT N FD A LIST OF LGBTIQ+ SERVIC AT ADDNAL REPORTG: AFPSHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 27 JUNE 2019 4:55PMUPDATED 28 JUNE 2019 10:32AMBY EMMA LAWSON, NICK BAKERTAGSATRALIANORTH AMERISHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOUSTEPHANIE WAS TOLD SHE HAD LS THAN FIVE MONTHS TO LIVE. HERE'S WHAT SHE DID NEXTHEALTHLEWIS CAPALDI NCELS UPG SHOWS TO GET 'MENTAL AND PHYSIL HEALTH ORR'WORLDTHERE'S SOMETHG 'SULTG' ABOUT THIS PHOTO. CAN YOU SPOT ?ATRALIAWHY A MAP LED THIS UNTRY TO BAN THE NEW BARBIE MOVIEWORLDMY SONS BOTH TOLD ME THEY WERE GAY. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED NEXTLIFEIN A WORLD FIRST, MDMA AND PSILOCYB HAVE BEEN RECLASSIFIED AS MEDICE ATRALIAHEALTHYOUR TAX RETURN WILL LOOK A LTLE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOWATRALIATHE NEW FANCIAL YEAR IS HERE. FROM SUPERANNUATN TO THE PENSN, HERE'S WHAT'S CHANGGATRALIATOPICS

Source: Getty ImagFightg backIn late 1960s Ameri, homosexualy was still seen as a mental illns and gay sex was illegal except venu weled openly gay Amerins, and exceptns - cludg the Mafia-n Stonewall Inn New York's Greenwich Village - often attracted the attentn of raids were ed to expose those who were gay and make an example of men who chose to cross-drs.

But thgs changed when a group of gay men and women, drag queens, and transgenr New Yorkers chose to fight back agast officers who had raid the bar for the send time that week. Source: AAPA year after the rts, June 1970, New York staged s first ever Gay Pri para celebratg the diversy of the LGBTIQ+ Stonewall to SydneyBefore long, the "rippl" of Stonewall h Atralia, where LGBTIQ+ momentum had been buildg, but discrimatn remaed 1970, Atralians Christabel Poll and John Ware "me out" The Atralian newspaper and announced the formatn of CAMP; the Campaign Agast Moral York's Stonewall Inn. "CAMP started to al wh several thgs, such as the medil profsn which did aversn therapy and psychosurgery, to al wh the law which crimalised homosexual activy, to al wh the church which regard as sful, " he early Mardi Gras.

COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'

Source: SuppliedThen March 1978, Atralians Ken Davis and Anne Talve received a letter om the San Francis Gay Freedom Day anisers llg on people overseas to stand up for LGBTIQ+ rights and memorate the Stonewall rts. "As reprentativ of San Francis's large and active gay muny, we are enuragg worldwi activi for gay rights June 25th and the week before orr to prent the largt and most unified show of support history, " the letter Davis Sydney's Taylor Square this week. In 2019, raised over A$2 ln dollars two days for Israel Fol, who was sacked by Rugby Atralia for onle ments suggtg gays and fornitors are sted for hell.

ATRALIA’S LGBT-ONLY ISLANDPARADISE FOUNDMARRIAGE EQUALY DISCRIMATN LED A GROUP OF ATRALIAN ACTIVISTS TO SET THEIR RABOW FLAG ON CATO ISLAND. THIS ‘HOMELAND’ EVEN HAS A GLORIA GAYNOR ANTHEM.NA STROCHLICUPDATED OCT. 11, 2019 3:47PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 18, 2015 6:45AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTWHEN ATRALIA REFED TO ALLOW S GAY CIZENS EQUAL RIGHTS TO MARRIAGE, A GROUP OF ACTIVISTS SERTED THE UNTRY, SAILED 200 NTIL TO AN ISLAND OFF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF AND HOISTED A RABOW FLAG THE HIGHT SPOT THEY ULD FD.THEY CLARED THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS.THE IMPET ME 2004 DURG THE BRISBANE GAY PRI FTIVAL, WHEN A LLECTIVE OF IENDS CID THAT WHOUT BEG GRANTED LEGAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS THEY WOULD LEAVE AND START THEIR OWN MORE CLIVE UNTRY.NA STROCHLIC

"By way of some slight humour on this issue, this particular flag, you will realise, is the flag of the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands which clared war on Atralia... It's what is lled a "micro natn", a ty area of land which clar pennce for self om the untry is ostensibly part kgdom, like other micronatns such as the famo Prcipaly of Hutt River Wtern Atralia, is not an official natn of s own, and not regnised by the Uned Natns or any ternatnal exists, and y, did clare war on Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands, acrdg to s webse (y, has a webse, and a Facebook page) was tablished 2004 by a group of LGBTQ activists prottg the ernment's refal to grant same-sex marriage. The kgdom is sttered over some one ln square kilometr of ocean, the Coral Sea off Atralia's northeast s webse, the kgdom claims s populatn is "100 percent homosexual".

"The Gay and Lbian Kgdom formally raised the gay rabow pri flag on Cato Island on the 14th of June 2004 and clared the terrory an pennt gay and lbian state, a memorial plaque on the north eastern tip of Cato Island memorat this historic event, " the webse plaque, pictured above, stat: "On the 14th day of June 2004, at this hight pot the Coral Sea, Emperor Dale Parker Anrson raised the gay rabow flag and claimed the islands of the Coral Sea his name as homeland for the gay and lbian peopl of the world.

"The sovereign of the Gay and Lbian Kgdom is Dale Parker Anrson, who is directly scendant om the murred gay Kg of England, Edward II (1284-1327) this mak the Sovereign distantly related to all the major royal ho of Europe, " s webse stat.