Contents:
- DANIEL MARSHALLYOUNG GAYS: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF YOUTH, QUEER SEXUALI AND TN ATRALIA
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
- FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
DANIEL MARSHALLYOUNG GAYS: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF YOUTH, QUEER SEXUALI AND TN ATRALIA
We're gog to be talkg about that, some of the landmark fights and achievements lbian and gay rights, how societal attus are evolvg and the challeng and issu I'd like now to troduce our very fabulo expert panellists, they've all lived and breathed the battl, they're the vanguard of the ongog ph for equaly. She's a former Mardi Gras board director, foundg member of Pri and foundg director of Aurora, which rais funds for gay, lbian and transgenr muny next to me here is the fabulo, ternatnally acclaimed edian, sger, actrs and self-proclaimed rantr —JORDAN RASKOPOULOS: I'm a rantr.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
’ We've got to remember that, now that we've got this so-lled relig eedom right, that is gog to e up to try and take away the equaly and digny of LGBT VAN EXTEL: Shirleene, the flip si of crimalisg homosexualy was that there was crimaly on the part of agast gay and lbian, particularly gay men, that was a strong issue around attacks by homophobic men. I have team mat who are pleased that I am on their team, I have opponents who are pleased that they get to play wh y, I thk broar sportg muni are well behd kd of learng about trans bodi, and how they teract wh the VAN EXTEL: Robyn, you were stmental brgg the Gay Gam to Atralia. Roller rby — smashg LAVERACK: I thk, I mean, fairns the Atralian Gay Gam absolutely smashed , bee they did do exactly RASKOPOULOS: Y, LAVERACK: They talked wh the muny, they talked about how to fe so that was accepted by the trans muny, I mean who else to fe RASKOPOULOS: Totally.
FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
And that we mt e that momentum and we mt e that energy to repay that solidary and that bt that was given by people who were placed a really prer posn by irrponsible ‘no’ mpaigners, who put out very misleadg and very accurate rmatn, and really put those people the worst type of certaly I thk that everyone I know who was volved that mpaign certaly do feel an obligatn to keep workg on that, bee of RASKOPOULOS: Y, I thk that the difficult thg for the future is that we have achieved so much for gay and lbian rights that young people growg up the next generatn who are gay and lbian are gog to grow up wh the privilege of beg broadly accepted society, broadly celebrated society.
MICHAEL KIRBY: In fact, the Uned Stat the se before the US Supreme Court is actually about a person, a uple, a gay uple who wanted to have a ke, and they found actually only Ameri, they found a ke-maker who didn't want to put ‘Happy weddg Joe and Craig’, and therefore they've got that exact issue before the US Supreme Court.
It was, therefore, somethg of a shock to most Atralians to read The Atralian newspaper of 10 September 1970 of the formatn of an anisatn, Campaign Agast Moral Persecutn Inrporated (CAMP Inc), dited to removg the stigma that society attached to homosexualy.