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• OPNSSM: REMEMBERG THE RISE OF SYDNEY'S LGBTI MOVEMENT AMID PROTTS AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISM
• 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 YOU
• THE PROTTS THAT BEGAN MARDI GRASIN SYDNEY, ON THE NIGHT OF 24 JUNE, 1978, POLICE CRACKED DOWN ON A MARCH CELEBRATG GAY AND LBIAN SOLIDARY. IT WAS JT THE START OF WHAT WOULD BEE THE WORLD FAMO SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRASBY ANDREW TROUNSON, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE SELECTN TO:THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS IS THE WORLD’S LARGT ANNUAL CELEBRATN OF LGBT+ PEOPLE AND ONE OF ATRALIA’S BIGGT SGLE TOURIST ATTRACTNS. AN TIMATED 300,000 PEOPLE TURNED OUT FOR THE 2018 PARA MARCH, HIGHLIGHTG JT HOW MASTREAM LGBT+ CULTURE HAS BEE HERE. AND ONLY FOUR MONTHS EARLIER MORE THAN 60 PER CENT OF THE UNTRY VOTED SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAWS.LANCE DAY AND FELLOW 78ERS DANCE DURG PREPARATNS FOR THE 2018 MARDI GRAS. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGBUT FOR PROFSOR VERY BURGMANN, ONE OF ATRALIA’S LEADG POLIL SCIENTISTS AND AN EXPERT ON PROTT MOVEMENTS, BEG THIS YEAR’S PARA WAS NOTHG LS THAN SURREAL. ON 24 JUNE 1978, SHE HAD BEEN PART OF THE FIRST MARDI GRAS - A NIGHT TIME STREET PROTT-E PARTY SUPPORTG GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS ALONG SYDNEY’S INIC OXFORD STREET. ON THAT NIGHT, STEAD OF CHEERS, BALLOONS AND SEQUS, THE MARCHERS WERE MET BY A VLENT POLICE CRACKDOWN AS PROTTORS WERE GRABBED, BEATEN AND THROWN GAOL, LEAVG MANY TRMATISED FOR YEARS AFTERWARDS.BACK THEN, HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL NEW SOUTH WAL AND MONISED AS IMMORAL BY SOME OR NSIRED AN ILLNS BY OTHERS.WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTSREAD MORE“I REMEMBER BEG ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYG,” SAYS PROFSOR BURGMANN, WHO BEME THE FIRST FEMALE PROFSOR OF POLIL SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE 2003 AND IS NOW AN HONORARY PROFSORIAL FELLOW THE ESCHOLARSHIP REARCH CENTRE. “THE CHURCH WAS SAYG WAS A S, THE MEDIL PROFSN WAS SAYG WAS AN ILLNS AND THE STATE WAS SAYG WAS A CRIME. BUT THE OVER-REACTN BY THE POLICE STILL UGHT ALL BY SURPRISE.”PROFSOR BURGMANN WAS JT 25 AT THE TIME AND ACTIVE SOCIALIST POLICS AND PROTT. SHE WAS THERE WH GAY AND LBIAN RAS TO MONSTRATE SOLIDARY WH ANOTHER PROGRSIVE E.“I DON’T RELL UNPLEASANTNS OM THE PUBLIC WATCHG. WE WERE MARCHG AT THE BACK AND WORD ME DOWN TO THAT THE POLICE HAD GONE BERSERK UP ONT, AND THAT’S WHEN WE REALISED THAT SOMETHG SER WAS HAPPENG. WE LKED ARMS AND STAYED TOGETHER FOR SAFETY. BUT WE GOT OFF LIGHTLY. IT WAS THE GAY AND LBIAN ACTIVISTS AT THE ONT WHO GOT HAMMERED.”IN ALL 53 PEOPLE WERE ARRTED, AND THE SYDNEY MORNG HERALD NEWSPAPER WOULD LATER NAME THEN ALL, CLUDG THEIR OCCUPATNS AND THEIR ADDRS, EFFECTIVELY “OUTG” SOME.IN HER 1993 BOOK POWER AND PROTT, PROFSOR BURGMANN WR THAT THE MORE RADIL GAY AND LBIAN ACTIVISM OM THE EARLY 1970S, WHICH PROMPTED THE POLICE VLENCE 1978, WAS NOHELS PIVOTAL THE MOVEMENT’S ULTIMATE SUCCS CHANGG IAS AND LEGISLATN. RADILISM, SHE SAYS, IS A CRIL GREDIENT FOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS DATG BACK TO AT LEAST THE SUFAGETT BRA THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.INSTEAD OF CHEERG CROWDS, PROTTORS 1978 WERE MET WH A VLENT POLICE CRACKDOWN. PICTURE: GETTY IMAG“IN THE 1970S PROBABLY THE MAJORY OF PEOPLE WERE HOMOPHOBIC, TO VARYG GRE. BEG HOMSEXUAL WAS SEEN AS WRONG SOME WAY. THAT WAS WHY WAS IMPORTANT FOR THE MOVEMENT TO SHIFT OM NOT JT SAYG THAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS OK AND SHOULD NOT BE ILLEGAL, BUT TO STAND UP AND BE PROUD AND MAND PLETE ACCEPTANCE,” SHE SAYS.“THE GAY PRI MOVEMENT OM 1971 WAS SAYG BEG GAY OR LBIAN IS GOOD, AND THAT SHIFT WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE PEOPLE THE MASTREAM START THKG THAT PERHAPS HOMOSEXUALY WASN’T BAD.“POLIL SCIENTISTS LL THE RADIL FLANK EFFECT, WHICH IS THAT YOU N CHANGE MASTREAM ATTUS AND SECURE MORATE REFORMS BY MANDG MUCH MORE, BY TAKG AN EXTREMIST POSN THAT MOST PEOPLE WON’T AGREE WH BUT WHICH NOHELS HELPS TO SHIFT ATTUS BEE THE MORATE REFORM POSN EMERG AS THE SENSIBLE MIDDLE GROUND.”THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHTREAD MORESHE SAYS THE “RADIL FLANK” HAS BEEN CRIL TO MANY MAJOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.“THE OPPOSN TO THE VIETNAM WAR HAD RADILS TYPIFYG THE US AS AN IMPERIALIST AGGRSOR AND SUPPORTG THE VIET CONG, SO THE MAJORY OF PEOPLE AT LAST WERE PERSUAD NSCRIPTN FOR THIS NTENT WAR WAS WRONG, AND THE US CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, THE BLACK PANTHERS WERE A MORE RADIL UNTER POT TO MART LUTHER KG JR, WHO THEREFORE BEME A SATLY FIGURE STANDG UP AGAST RACIAL TOLERANCE AND JTICE.“A MOVEMENT BENEFS OM HAVG A RADIL FLANK BUT WORKS BT IF THERE IS ALSO A STRONG MIDDLE GROUND OF PEOPLE WHO N BEE FAVOURED BY THOSE POWER ANX TO RCE THE THREAT OM THE RADILS,” SAYS PROFSOR BURGMANN.“WOMEN’S ADVISERS AND OTHER FEMOCRATS ATRALIA ACHIEVED HEAPS, BUT THEY GOT THEIR APPOTMENTS THE RRIDORS OF POWER BEE OF HOW ANGRY THE RADIL WOMEN’S LIBERATN MOVEMENT HAD BEE THE 1970S AND HOW MUCH THE ‘PATRIARCHY’ FELT ALARMED BY THIS RADILISM.“THE GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAD THE GAY PRI PEOPLE WHO ARGUED ‘GAY IS GOOD’ AND WERE PREPARED TO THROW EGGS AT PSYCHIATRISTS WHO ADVOTED ‘AVERSN THERAPY’ OR HECKLE FUNDAMENTALIST NSERVATIVE RELIG TYP LIKE REVEREND FRED NILE. THE PROTT TOOK PLACE ON A NIGHT JUNE, THE MARDI GRAS’ DATE HAS SCE BEEN MOVED TO MARCH. PICTURE: GETTY IMAG“BUT THERE WERE ALSO MORE MORATE LAW REFORM ASSOCIATNS AND UNSELLG SERVIC THAT WERE LOBBYG ERNMENTS TO CRIMALISE AND THEN OUTLAW DISCRIMATN. IT WAS THE GAY PRI RADILS WHO ENABLED THE MORAT TO SUCCEED, BEE THE MORATE LAW REFORMERS ME TO BE SEEN AS THE VOICE OF PROMISE AND REASON.”LOOKG TO THE FUTURE SHE N SEE THE TRANSGENR MOVEMENT GAG TRACTN AS WELL AS THE MOVEMENT TARGETG MALE VLENCE AGAST WOMEN. ONLY THIS MONTH THE RAPE AND MURR OF EURYDICE DIXON MELBOURNE GALVANISED 10,000 PEOPLE TO ATTEND A VIGIL AT THE MURR SE.“AT LAST WHEN SOMETHG HORRIFIC LIKE THIS HAPPENS EVEN THE POLICE, AND CERTALY THE SMART POLICIANS, REALISE THEY N’T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF BLAMG THE VICTIM AND JT TELLG WOMEN THEY NEED TO PROTECT THEMSELV, BUT ARE NOW TALKG ABOUT HOW SOCIETY HAS TO SIST THAT MEN STOP BEHAVG BADLY.”THE PROBLEM OF A SAME SEX MARRIAGE EXEMPTN FOR CIVIL CELEBRANTSREAD MOREAND GIVEN HOW FAR SOCIETY HAS E ON GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS, SHE SAYS SHE IS OPTIMISTIC THAT PROGRSIVE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS N NTUE TO MAKE GROUND. ON THAT LD EVENG JUNE, PROFSOR BURGMANN SAYS SHE SIMPLY ULDN’T HAVE IMAGED AN ATRALIA THAT WOULD VOTE FAVOUR OF SAME SEX MARRIAGE.“IT IS ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDARY CHANG ATTUS AND LEGISLATN THAT I HAVE EVER WNSED. IT IS A FANTASTIC ACHIEVEMENT.”THAT VLENTLY REPRSED PROTT IS NOW MEMORATED EVERY MARDI GRAS, THOUGH THANKFULLY FOR THOSE THE SKIMPY OUTFS, HAS BEEN MOVED TO WARMER MARCH.PROFSOR BURGMANN WH DR GRAHAM WILLETT LAST YEAR PLETED A PROJECT TO DIGISE OVER 200 HISTORIL DOCUMENTS OM THE GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS GOG BACK TO 1969 AND MA THEM ACCSIBLE ON THE WEBSE REASON REVOLT: SOURCE DOCUMENTS OF ATRALIAN RADILISM, HOSTED BY THE ESCHOLARSHIP REARCH CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE. THE PROJECT WAS FUND BY THE ATRALIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV AND UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE. BANNER IMAGE: FAIRFAX MEDIAFIRST PUBLISHED ON 22 JUNE 2018 HUMANILGBTIQA+SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRASPROTT MOVEMENTSRADILISMSOCIAL CHANGESTART THE NVERSATN ON FACEBOOKLOADG NVERSATN...SORRY, SOMETHG PREVENTED THE FACEBOOK MENTS FEED OM LOADG. HUMANIFEATUREDPROFSOR VERY BURGMANNHONORARY PROFSORIAL FELLOW; DIRECTOR, REASON REVOLT, ESCHOLARSHIP REARCH CENTRE, 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.”THE PROTTS THAT BEGAN MARDI GRAS
• GAY SYDNEY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
• THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY
• WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE

OPNSSM: REMEMBERG THE RISE OF SYDNEY'S LGBTI MOVEMENT AMID PROTTS AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISM

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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 YOU

One of the highlights of Sydney WorldPri 2023 was the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para last Saturday. Atralian Prime Mister Anthony Albane march the 45th Anniversary Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para Oxford Street, Sydney, Atralia, Feb.

When activists June 1978 wanted to get gay men to prott for their rights Sydney, they cid to nsir a party and lled “Mardi Gras”. “Out of the bars and to the streets” was the chant as protters went om venue to venue along Oxford Street to llect new participants a prott llg for the end of the crimalisatn of homosexualy. 78’ers om the first Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, Peter Waal, right, and Robyn Plaister.

THE PROTTS THAT BEGAN MARDI GRASIN SYDNEY, ON THE NIGHT OF 24 JUNE, 1978, POLICE CRACKED DOWN ON A MARCH CELEBRATG GAY AND LBIAN SOLIDARY. IT WAS JT THE START OF WHAT WOULD BEE THE WORLD FAMO SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRASBY ANDREW TROUNSON, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE SELECTN TO:THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS IS THE WORLD’S LARGT ANNUAL CELEBRATN OF LGBT+ PEOPLE AND ONE OF ATRALIA’S BIGGT SGLE TOURIST ATTRACTNS. AN TIMATED 300,000 PEOPLE TURNED OUT FOR THE 2018 PARA MARCH, HIGHLIGHTG JT HOW MASTREAM LGBT+ CULTURE HAS BEE HERE. AND ONLY FOUR MONTHS EARLIER MORE THAN 60 PER CENT OF THE UNTRY VOTED SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAWS.LANCE DAY AND FELLOW 78ERS DANCE DURG PREPARATNS FOR THE 2018 MARDI GRAS. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGBUT FOR PROFSOR VERY BURGMANN, ONE OF ATRALIA’S LEADG POLIL SCIENTISTS AND AN EXPERT ON PROTT MOVEMENTS, BEG THIS YEAR’S PARA WAS NOTHG LS THAN SURREAL. ON 24 JUNE 1978, SHE HAD BEEN PART OF THE FIRST MARDI GRAS - A NIGHT TIME STREET PROTT-E PARTY SUPPORTG GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS ALONG SYDNEY’S INIC OXFORD STREET. ON THAT NIGHT, STEAD OF CHEERS, BALLOONS AND SEQUS, THE MARCHERS WERE MET BY A VLENT POLICE CRACKDOWN AS PROTTORS WERE GRABBED, BEATEN AND THROWN GAOL, LEAVG MANY TRMATISED FOR YEARS AFTERWARDS.BACK THEN, HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL NEW SOUTH WAL AND MONISED AS IMMORAL BY SOME OR NSIRED AN ILLNS BY OTHERS.WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTSREAD MORE“I REMEMBER BEG ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYG,” SAYS PROFSOR BURGMANN, WHO BEME THE FIRST FEMALE PROFSOR OF POLIL SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE 2003 AND IS NOW AN HONORARY PROFSORIAL FELLOW THE ESCHOLARSHIP REARCH CENTRE. “THE CHURCH WAS SAYG WAS A S, THE MEDIL PROFSN WAS SAYG WAS AN ILLNS AND THE STATE WAS SAYG WAS A CRIME. BUT THE OVER-REACTN BY THE POLICE STILL UGHT ALL BY SURPRISE.”PROFSOR BURGMANN WAS JT 25 AT THE TIME AND ACTIVE SOCIALIST POLICS AND PROTT. SHE WAS THERE WH GAY AND LBIAN RAS TO MONSTRATE SOLIDARY WH ANOTHER PROGRSIVE E.“I DON’T RELL UNPLEASANTNS OM THE PUBLIC WATCHG. WE WERE MARCHG AT THE BACK AND WORD ME DOWN TO THAT THE POLICE HAD GONE BERSERK UP ONT, AND THAT’S WHEN WE REALISED THAT SOMETHG SER WAS HAPPENG. WE LKED ARMS AND STAYED TOGETHER FOR SAFETY. BUT WE GOT OFF LIGHTLY. IT WAS THE GAY AND LBIAN ACTIVISTS AT THE ONT WHO GOT HAMMERED.”IN ALL 53 PEOPLE WERE ARRTED, AND THE SYDNEY MORNG HERALD NEWSPAPER WOULD LATER NAME THEN ALL, CLUDG THEIR OCCUPATNS AND THEIR ADDRS, EFFECTIVELY “OUTG” SOME.IN HER 1993 BOOK POWER AND PROTT, PROFSOR BURGMANN WR THAT THE MORE RADIL GAY AND LBIAN ACTIVISM OM THE EARLY 1970S, WHICH PROMPTED THE POLICE VLENCE 1978, WAS NOHELS PIVOTAL THE MOVEMENT’S ULTIMATE SUCCS CHANGG IAS AND LEGISLATN. RADILISM, SHE SAYS, IS A CRIL GREDIENT FOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS DATG BACK TO AT LEAST THE SUFAGETT BRA THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.INSTEAD OF CHEERG CROWDS, PROTTORS 1978 WERE MET WH A VLENT POLICE CRACKDOWN. PICTURE: GETTY IMAG“IN THE 1970S PROBABLY THE MAJORY OF PEOPLE WERE HOMOPHOBIC, TO VARYG GRE. BEG HOMSEXUAL WAS SEEN AS WRONG SOME WAY. THAT WAS WHY WAS IMPORTANT FOR THE MOVEMENT TO SHIFT OM NOT JT SAYG THAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS OK AND SHOULD NOT BE ILLEGAL, BUT TO STAND UP AND BE PROUD AND MAND PLETE ACCEPTANCE,” SHE SAYS.“THE GAY PRI MOVEMENT OM 1971 WAS SAYG BEG GAY OR LBIAN IS GOOD, AND THAT SHIFT WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE PEOPLE THE MASTREAM START THKG THAT PERHAPS HOMOSEXUALY WASN’T BAD.“POLIL SCIENTISTS LL THE RADIL FLANK EFFECT, WHICH IS THAT YOU N CHANGE MASTREAM ATTUS AND SECURE MORATE REFORMS BY MANDG MUCH MORE, BY TAKG AN EXTREMIST POSN THAT MOST PEOPLE WON’T AGREE WH BUT WHICH NOHELS HELPS TO SHIFT ATTUS BEE THE MORATE REFORM POSN EMERG AS THE SENSIBLE MIDDLE GROUND.”THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHTREAD MORESHE SAYS THE “RADIL FLANK” HAS BEEN CRIL TO MANY MAJOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.“THE OPPOSN TO THE VIETNAM WAR HAD RADILS TYPIFYG THE US AS AN IMPERIALIST AGGRSOR AND SUPPORTG THE VIET CONG, SO THE MAJORY OF PEOPLE AT LAST WERE PERSUAD NSCRIPTN FOR THIS NTENT WAR WAS WRONG, AND THE US CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, THE BLACK PANTHERS WERE A MORE RADIL UNTER POT TO MART LUTHER KG JR, WHO THEREFORE BEME A SATLY FIGURE STANDG UP AGAST RACIAL TOLERANCE AND JTICE.“A MOVEMENT BENEFS OM HAVG A RADIL FLANK BUT WORKS BT IF THERE IS ALSO A STRONG MIDDLE GROUND OF PEOPLE WHO N BEE FAVOURED BY THOSE POWER ANX TO RCE THE THREAT OM THE RADILS,” SAYS PROFSOR BURGMANN.“WOMEN’S ADVISERS AND OTHER FEMOCRATS ATRALIA ACHIEVED HEAPS, BUT THEY GOT THEIR APPOTMENTS THE RRIDORS OF POWER BEE OF HOW ANGRY THE RADIL WOMEN’S LIBERATN MOVEMENT HAD BEE THE 1970S AND HOW MUCH THE ‘PATRIARCHY’ FELT ALARMED BY THIS RADILISM.“THE GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAD THE GAY PRI PEOPLE WHO ARGUED ‘GAY IS GOOD’ AND WERE PREPARED TO THROW EGGS AT PSYCHIATRISTS WHO ADVOTED ‘AVERSN THERAPY’ OR HECKLE FUNDAMENTALIST NSERVATIVE RELIG TYP LIKE REVEREND FRED NILE. THE PROTT TOOK PLACE ON A NIGHT JUNE, THE MARDI GRAS’ DATE HAS SCE BEEN MOVED TO MARCH. PICTURE: GETTY IMAG“BUT THERE WERE ALSO MORE MORATE LAW REFORM ASSOCIATNS AND UNSELLG SERVIC THAT WERE LOBBYG ERNMENTS TO CRIMALISE AND THEN OUTLAW DISCRIMATN. IT WAS THE GAY PRI RADILS WHO ENABLED THE MORAT TO SUCCEED, BEE THE MORATE LAW REFORMERS ME TO BE SEEN AS THE VOICE OF PROMISE AND REASON.”LOOKG TO THE FUTURE SHE N SEE THE TRANSGENR MOVEMENT GAG TRACTN AS WELL AS THE MOVEMENT TARGETG MALE VLENCE AGAST WOMEN. ONLY THIS MONTH THE RAPE AND MURR OF EURYDICE DIXON MELBOURNE GALVANISED 10,000 PEOPLE TO ATTEND A VIGIL AT THE MURR SE.“AT LAST WHEN SOMETHG HORRIFIC LIKE THIS HAPPENS EVEN THE POLICE, AND CERTALY THE SMART POLICIANS, REALISE THEY N’T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF BLAMG THE VICTIM AND JT TELLG WOMEN THEY NEED TO PROTECT THEMSELV, BUT ARE NOW TALKG ABOUT HOW SOCIETY HAS TO SIST THAT MEN STOP BEHAVG BADLY.”THE PROBLEM OF A SAME SEX MARRIAGE EXEMPTN FOR CIVIL CELEBRANTSREAD MOREAND GIVEN HOW FAR SOCIETY HAS E ON GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS, SHE SAYS SHE IS OPTIMISTIC THAT PROGRSIVE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS N NTUE TO MAKE GROUND. ON THAT LD EVENG JUNE, PROFSOR BURGMANN SAYS SHE SIMPLY ULDN’T HAVE IMAGED AN ATRALIA THAT WOULD VOTE FAVOUR OF SAME SEX MARRIAGE.“IT IS ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDARY CHANG ATTUS AND LEGISLATN THAT I HAVE EVER WNSED. IT IS A FANTASTIC ACHIEVEMENT.”THAT VLENTLY REPRSED PROTT IS NOW MEMORATED EVERY MARDI GRAS, THOUGH THANKFULLY FOR THOSE THE SKIMPY OUTFS, HAS BEEN MOVED TO WARMER MARCH.PROFSOR BURGMANN WH DR GRAHAM WILLETT LAST YEAR PLETED A PROJECT TO DIGISE OVER 200 HISTORIL DOCUMENTS OM THE GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS GOG BACK TO 1969 AND MA THEM ACCSIBLE ON THE WEBSE REASON REVOLT: SOURCE DOCUMENTS OF ATRALIAN RADILISM, HOSTED BY THE ESCHOLARSHIP REARCH CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE. THE PROJECT WAS FUND BY THE ATRALIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV AND UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE. BANNER IMAGE: FAIRFAX MEDIAFIRST PUBLISHED ON 22 JUNE 2018 HUMANILGBTIQA+SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRASPROTT MOVEMENTSRADILISMSOCIAL CHANGESTART THE NVERSATN ON FACEBOOKLOADG NVERSATN...SORRY, SOMETHG PREVENTED THE FACEBOOK MENTS FEED OM LOADG. HUMANIFEATUREDPROFSOR VERY BURGMANNHONORARY PROFSORIAL FELLOW; DIRECTOR, REASON REVOLT, ESCHOLARSHIP REARCH CENTRE, 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.”THE PROTTS THAT BEGAN MARDI GRAS

Photograph: Glenn Campbell/AAPThe NRL and the NSW Teachers’ Feratn are among those reportedly cut om the para creasg mercialisatn of the prott and the cln of rporatns and polil parti which at tim are seen to work agast the terts of the LGBTQ+ muny remas an ongog source of tensn for the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras. “We choose partners who reflect the valu held closely by the LGBTQIA+ muny, ” he Gras, Day of Internatnal Gay Solidary, Kgs Cross, 24 June 1978. Born 1954, the msag I received about homosexualy when I was growg up were que straightforward: homosexualy was a crimal act, a mental illns and agast God's will.

GAY SYDNEY

It was nearly 10 years before I heard anyone say anythg posive about homosexualy.

I was lucky enough to arrive at Sydney Universy 1972 a climate of stunt activism that drew on the civil rights, women's liberatn and early gay liberatn movements of the Uned Stat. It was a plea for the acceptance of our brief snapshot of homosexual-themed popular culture provid the back drop to the explosn of gay rights activism that I was lucky enough to jo the early that wild night 1978 was preced by sr of other monstratns and public meetgs — and by the systematic lobbyg of muny and polil lears.

The early Gay Liberatn movement protted and sought unsuccsfully to have was at a Penny Short monstratn Gee Street Sydney that I first was given a megaphone to lead the chants. Homosexualy stopped beg a mental illns 1974 when the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn supported s removal om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM). Homosexualy was crimalised NSW 1984.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

The first state or terrory to take homosexualy out of the crimal was South Atralia 1975 and the last was Tasmania stggle for a wele om fah groups ntu. Gay and lbian people n be ordaed the Ung Church.

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. 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.

THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS

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.

THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY

"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. It's an achievement won through s of rearch, mpaigns, treatments, and the hard work of the most vulnerable muni: sex workers, dg ers and, of urse, the gay Harvey has this story.

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.

The stunngly betiful harbour, the geo hunks on Bondi beach, the dazzlgly Oxford Street gay nightlife, the art, food and shoppg scen and numero inic attractns make Sydney a world class gay holiday statn. Sydney is packed to the seams wh gay travelers durg Mardi Gras, but this is a cy blsed wh great weather om September to April. Roberts, who the 1990s was the first high-profile gby league player to e out as gay, said he was not surprised, Tuday July 26, 2022, that seven Manly Sea Eagl players whdrew om a Natnal Rugby League match bee they’re unwillg to wear their club’s cln jersey.

WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE

Former Manly forward Ian Roberts, who the 1990s was the first high-profile gby league player to e out as gay, said he was not surprised by the players’ cisn.

“As an olr gay man I’m ed to this. Sydney has a thrivg LGBTQ scene and plays host to one of the world’s bt pri events: Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras.

There are a range of LGBTQ areas (or “gayborhoods”) Sydney where the muny ngregat at amazg LGBTQ bars and clubs, as well as at more laid-back ffee ho and rtrants.

Today, even though you n fd LGBTQ hotspots throughout the cy, Oxford Street remas a major hub for LGBTQI+ activy and hosts Sydney’s famo Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, ually held every March on Oxford Street. In 2016, jt over 15% of upl Potts Pot were gay men.

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. ”In July 2019, two gay men om St.