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- IT'S ONLY 25 YEARS SCE BEG GAY STOPPED BEG ILLEGAL ATRALIAWHEN TASMANIA CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUALY ON 1 MAY 1997, BEME THE LAST ATRALIAN STATE TO DO SO. TODAY, LGBTIQ+ ADVOT THERE SAY THERE’S STILL WORK TO BE DONE, PARTICULARLY TO PROTECT ATRALIANS WHO ARE TRANSGENR AND TERSEX.PUBLISHED 1 MAY 2022 7:34AMUPDATED 1 MAY 2022 8:09AMBY SARAH MNRSOURCE: SBS NEWSIMAGE: POLICE LEAD GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST RODNEY CROOME AWAY OM PROTTS AT SALAMAN MARKET 1988. (SUPPLIED / ROGER LOVELL, THE MERCURY (SUPPLIED BY RODNEY CROOME).)THE LATE 1980S WERE TOUGH FOR RODNEY CROOME. AGED HIS 20S AND NOT LONG AFTER G OUT AS GAY, HE CID TO BEE AN LGBTIQ+ ADVOTE HIS HOME STATE OF TASMANIA.“I DISVERED THEN, THAT BEE I WAS GAY, I LIVED A POLICE STATE,” HE SAYS.HE RELLS GOG TO A GAY MUNY MEETG AND LEARNG NOT TO E HIS SURNAME AS POLICE RMANTS ULD BE HIDN WH THE GROUP. HE WAS ALSO TOLD POLICE ULD BE WAG OUTSI TO ADD ATTEN’ R REGISTRATN PLAT TO THEIR SO-LLED “PK LIST”.TASMANIA'S STATE LAW AT THE TIME STILL CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUALY, MEANG SEX BETWEEN MEN WAS PUNISHABLE BY MORE THAN 20 YEARS PRISON. THE RT OF ATRALIA HAD CRIMALISED .POLICE ATTENDG A GAY LAW REFORM STALL AT HOBART'S SALAMAN MARKETS 1988. SOURCE: AAP / ROGER LOVELLTHE LAST TIME A PERSON WAS CHARGED WH HOMOSEXUALY OFFENC TASMANIA WAS THE MID-1980S, MR CROOME SAYS, BUT THE LAW “WAS STILL ED AS A JTIFITN BY THE ERNMENT AND OTHERS TO DISCRIMATE”.THE WORST EXAMPLE ME 1988 WHEN HE AND A SMALL GROUP OF ADVOT SET UP A STALL AT HOBART’S INIC SALAMAN MARKETS. THEY WERE ARMED WH NOTHG BUT A TABLE AND A PETN AND WERE ASKG PEOPLE TO SIGN SUPPORT OF CRIMALISG HOMOSEXUALY.“WHEN THE HOBART CY COUNCIL FOUND OUT WE WERE THERE, THEY LLED THE POLICE AND HAD ALL ARRTED,” MR CROOME SAYS.“THERE WERE MORE THAN 130 PEOPLE ARRTED OVER SEVEN WEEKS … THE BIGGT ACT OF GAY RIGHTS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ATRALIAN HISTORY.”POLICE LEAD GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST RODNEY CROOME AWAY OM PROTTS AT SALAMAN MARKET 1988. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / ROGER LOVELL, THE MERCURY (SUPPLIED BY RODNEY CROOME).RICHARD HALE, A FOUNDG MEMBER OF THE TASMANIAN GAY LAW REFORM GROUP, WAS ARRTED TWICE DURG THAT TIME.“WE NEVER KNEW OM WEEK TO WEEK EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN … AND SOME PEOPLE WERE TREATED QUE ROUGHLY,” HE SAYS.“WHEN YOU’RE THE PADDY WAGON BY YOURSELF … OR YOU WERE HELD A POLICE CELL FOR A LONG TIME AND YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS GOG TO HAPPEN NEXT, THOSE THGS WERE QUE SRY.”THERE WERE MORE THAN 130 PEOPLE ARRTED OVER SEVEN WEEKS … THE BIGGT ACT OF GAY RIGHTS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ATRALIAN HISTORY.RODNEY CROOMEANTI-GAY RALLI NTUED TO THE 1990S TASMANIA, MR CROOME SAYS. HE ATTEND SOME ULVERSTONE, A TOWN ON THE STATE’S NORTH AST, TO UNTER MONSTRATE.“HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WOULD GO ALONG AND LISTEN TO HATRED AND BILE ABOUT . I REMEMBER HEARG THOSE PEOPLE SHOUTG, ‘KILL THEM! KILL THEM!’”“ULVERSTONE WAS LABELLED AS ‘ATRALIA’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC TOWN’ THE TERNATNAL PRS.”HOW THEY WON THE FIGHTIN THE EARLY 1990S, TASMANIA’S UPPER HOE REJECTED LEGISLATN TO CRIMALISE HOMOSEXUALY, SO MR CROOME TOOK THE BATTLE TO THE UNED NATNS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMTEE.“IT WAS THE FIRST SUCH SE OM ATRALIA AND THE FIRST SE ABOUT CRIMALISATN BROUGHT TO THE UN OM ANYWHERE THE WORLD,” HE SAYS.IN APRIL 1994, THE UN LED MR CROOME’S FAVOUR, BUT THE BATTLE WASN’T OVER; HE’D NEED TO NVCE CANBERRA.GAY ACTIVISTS PROTTG HOBART AUGT 1988. SOURCE: AAP / ROGER LOVELL“WE ASKED THE FERAL ERNMENT TO E S POWERS UNR THE FERAL NSTUTN, PARTICULARLY TERMS OF OBSERVG TERNATNAL TREATI, TO ENACT A LAW THAT WOULD OVERRI THE TASMANIAN LAW,” HE SAYS.“BUT THAT DIDN’T VALIDATE THE TASMANIAN LAWS PLETELY, THE ONLY BODY THAT ULD DO THAT WAS THE HIGH COURT, SO AFTER THE FERAL LAW WAS PASSED, WE WENT TO THE HIGH COURT.“AFTER THAT, THE TASMANIAN ERNMENT KNEW THE GAME WAS UP. THE LIBERAL ERNMENT AT THE TIME ALLOWED A NSCIENCE VOTE, AND THE LAW WAS CHANGED.”RODNEY CROOME, CENTRE, AT A 1997 PRS NFERENCE FOLLOWG THE SUCCSFUL PASSAGE OF GAY LAW REFORM TASMANIA'S UPPER HOE. SOURCE: FACEBOOK / EVOLUTN PUBLISHG, AQUA ATRALIAN QUEER ARCHIVMR CROOME SAYS HE AND OTHER ADVOT HAD BEEN NNG “NOT ONLY A MPAIGN FOR LAW CHANGE BUT A MPAIGN TO CHANGE HEARTS AND MDS”.“WE WENT OUT AND SPOKE TO EVERY GROUP THAT WOULD LISTEN TO : SERVICE CLUBS, UNN BRANCH, SCHOOL GROUPS, SPORTG GROUPS; WE WENT ACROSS TASMANIA AND MA OUR SE.”MR HALE WAS AT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WHEN THE FAL VOTE HAPPENED ON 1 MAY 1997.“IT WAS THE EVENG, AND WAS THE END OF A NE-YEAR MPAIGN,” HE SAYS.“THERE WAS GREAT RELIEF. I’M A B SHIVERY JT THKG ABOUT .”IT PASSED BY JT ONE VOTE.LASTG IMPACTLYNN JARVIS IS THE CEO OF WORKG IT OUT, TASMANIA’S ONLY DITED LGBTIQ+ SERVICE AND TN PROVIR. IT WAS TABLISHED AS A DIRECT RULT OF THE LAW CHANGE TO CRIMALISE HOMOSEXUALY.DR JARVIS SAYS YOUNGER PEOPLE TASMANIA’S LQBTIQ+ MUNY ARE OFTEN SURPRISED WHEN THEY LEARN ABOUT THE STATE’S HISTORY.RODNEY CROOME AT SALAMAN MARKETS 2004. SOURCE: AAP / LIBBY SUTHERLAND“IF YOU’RE A YOUNG PERSON NOW, I’M SURE 25 YEARS AGO SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER LIFETIME AGO.“WHAT PEOPLE WENT THROUGH TO GET THAT REFORM WAS HORRIFIC … THEY HAD TO CHANGE THE VIEWS OF A WHOLE MUNY.”NOW, SHE SAYS, “WE HAVE AS A RULT SOME OF THE MOST PROGRSIVE LEGISLATN AND PROTECTNS PLACE OF ANY STATE OR TERRORY ATRALIA, AND SOMETIM THE WORLD”.IN 2017, 63.6 PER CENT OF PEOPLE TASMANIA VOTED ‘Y’ ATRALIA’S POSTAL VOTE TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ABOVE THE NATNAL TOTAL OF 61.6 PER CENT.THE FOLLOWG YEAR, TASMANIANS WERE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO APPLY TO HAVE HISTORIL NVICTNS FOR HOMOSEXUAL ACTS REMOVED OM THEIR CRIMAL RERDS.POSIVE CHANGE HAS ALSO E FOR TASMANIA’S WIR LGBTIQ+ MUNY, TRANSGENR WOMAN AND ADVOTE MARTE DELANEY SAYS.IN 2004, SHE BEGAN MEETG WH SUCCSIVE TASMANIAN ATTORNEYS-GENERAL, LLG FOR CHANG THE STATE’S BIRTH CERTIFITE LEGISLATN.MARTE DELANEY HAS FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF TRANSGENR ATRALIANS. SOURCE: SUPPLIED“15 YEARS LATER, RULTED PROBABLY THE WORLD’S BT AND MOST CLIVE BIRTH CERTIFITE LAWS,” SHE SAYS.TASMANIA NOW MAK GENR ON BIRTH CERTIFIT OPTNAL AND REMOV THE REQUIREMENT FOR TRANSGENR PEOPLE TO HAVE SURGERY ORR TO HAVE THEIR GENR REGNISED.WORK TO BE DONEDPE THE WS, THOSE WORKG WH THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY AGREE THERE’S STILL MORE TO BE DONE.MR CROOME, WHO WAS NAMED TASMANIAN OF THE YEAR 2015, WOULD NOW LIKE TO SEE THE STATE BAN GAY NVERSN PRACTIC. ADVOT ALSO AGREE MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO SUPPORT TRANSGENR AND TERSEX PEOPLE THE STATE.READ MORE'HAVE A SHRED OF EMPATHY': COVERAGE OF KATHERE DEV' MENTS IS HARMFUL, TRANSGENR ADVOT SAY“A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE STILL FEEL DISTRSED ABOUT LIVG AS THEIR TE SELV OUR MUNY,” DR JARVIS SAYS.LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE ARE STILL ED AS A “POLIL WEDGE” NATNAL BATE TOO, SHE ADDS, REFERENCG RECENT ARGUMENTS ABOUT TRANSGENR WOMEN'S PARTICIPATN SPORT.“THE LIV OF LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE ARE STILL EQUENTLY BATED THE PUBLIC DOMA AND I WOULD JT LIKE TO REMD EVERYBODY THAT THAT HAS REALLY SER NSEQUENC ... ON THE HEALTH AND WELLBEG OF THE MUNY.”MR CROOME AGRE. RODNEY CROOME TODAY. HE SAYS MORE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE TO PROTECT ATRALIA'S TRANSGENR AND GENR DIVERSE MUNY. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / SARAH MNR“OF URSE, WE’RE THE MIDST OF AN ELECTN MPAIGN, WHERE THE LIV OF SEXUAL AND GENR MORI ARE AGA BEG ATTACKED, PARTICULARLY TRANS AND GENR DIVERSE PEOPLE,” HE SAYS.“I THK ’S IMPORTANT THAT WE RELL THE MPAIGN [TO CRIMALISE HOMOSEXUALY] TASMANIA, AND THE SUCCS OF THAT MPAIGN, TURNG TASMANIA AROUND, TO GIVE HOPE AND SPIRATN FOR DOG THE SAME THG AGA TO THE FUTURE.”SIMONE-LISA ANRSON IS THE TASMANIAN REPRENTATIVE FOR INTERSEX PEER SUPPORT ATRALIA AND WANTS FURTHER LEGAL REFORMS TO SUPPORT THOSE WHOSE SEX CHARACTERISTICS DO NOT NFORM TO FEMALE OR MALE STEREOTYP.“TO STOP NON-NSENSUAL SURGERI ON FANTS, YOUNG PEOPLE, AND PEOPLE THAT HAVEN’T BEEN GIVEN ENOUGH RMATN ABOUT WHAT THE SURGERI ARE AND WHAT THEY DO TO THEIR BODI,” SHE SAYS.READ MORE'MY PARENTS REJECTED ME FOR BEG GAY'MERRAN NEWMAN IS THE CHAIRPERSON OF PFLAG TASMANIA (PARENTS, FAI AND IENDS OF LBIANS AND GAYS), AND SAYS THERE ARE STILL NEEDS THE MUNY GOG UNMET. THE ANISATN SUPPORTS PEOPLE LIVG RAL PARTS OF THE STATE.“SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT JT LGBTIQ+, SOME PEOPLE ALSO HAVE A DISABILY, OR THEY HAVE MENTAL HEALTH DISTRS, OR THEY’RE LONELY. WE HAVE TO SUPPORT THOSE PEOPLE SOMEHOW. WE HAVE TO KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, AND WE DON’T ALWAYS KNOW.”‘RABOW ISLAND’IN 2008, HOBART CY COUNCIL OFFICIALLY APOLOGISED FOR THE ARRTS THAT BEGAN AT SALAMAN MARKETS, ROLVG “THAT ACTNS SUCH AS THE WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGA”.TASMANIA POLICE ACKNOWLEDG ON S WEBSE “TASMANIA WAS THE LAST STATE TO CRIMALISE MALE-TO-MALE RELATNSHIPS,” AND SAYS “THIS HAS LEFT A LEGACY OF STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN THAT TASMANIA POLICE SEEKS TO ADDRS”. THE FORCE NOW EMPLOYS LGBTI LIAISON OFFICERS, HAS ENURAGED OFFICERS UNIFORM TO TAKE PART THE TASPRI PARA SCE 2015, AND SAYS HAS “A STRONG MMENT TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIVERSY OUR MUNY”.THE YELLOW LE MEMORIAL AT SALAMAN MARKETS PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE 130 PEOPLE ARRTED 1988. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / SARAH MNRTHE TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY APOLOGISED FOR LAWS CRIMALISG HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY AND THEIR IMPACT 2017."MANY TASMANIANS HAVE NTUED TO SUFFER OM DISTRS AND DISADVANTAGE AS A RULT OF THE CRIMALISATN OF NDUCT THAT IS NOW ACCEPTED AS LAWFUL,” THEN-PREMIER WILL HODGMAN SAID.THERE IS HOPE THE MUNY THAT UNR NEWLY-APPOTED STATE PREMIER JEREMY ROCKLIFF, THGS N ONLY IMPROVE.MR ROCKLIFF VOTED FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY AND HAS BEEN A SUPPORTER OF OTHER PRO-LGBTIQ+ LAWS. LAST YEAR, WHILE MISTER FOR MUNY SERVIC AND VELOPMENT, HE ANNOUNCED GRANTS TO SUPPORT THE MUNY, SAYG “ALL TASMANIANS SHOULD BE TREATED WH DIGNY AND RPECT – REGARDLS OF THEIR RELATNSHIP STAT, SEXUALY, GENR INTY OR TERSEX CHARACTERISTICS”.MR CROOME SAYS HE’S PROUD OF HOW FAR THE STATE HAS E SCE HIS WORK BEGAN.RECENTLY, ULVERSTONE, ONCE LABELLED ‘ATRALIA’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC TOWN’ AND WHERE THOSE ANTI-GAY RALLI WERE HELD, HE ATTEND A RABOW FLAG RAISG.“IT WAS AWFUL, AND YET NOW ULVERSTONE, THEY RAISE THE RABOW FLAG. HOW N ANYONE NOT BE PROUD OF THAT?”QLIFE PROVIS ATRALIA-WI ANONYMO LGBTI SUPPORT AND N BE REACHED THROUGH S ONLE CHAT SERVICE OR ON 1800 184 527.WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE YOUR STORY WH SBS NEWS? EMAIL SHARETAGSLIFEREMEND FOR YOU
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- 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 TRANSGENR INCLN AND THE TROUBLG FINA BAN ON TRANS WOMEN THE WOMEN’S CATEGORYBY DAMIEN PARRY AND DR CATHERE ORDWAY05 JULY 2022FINA’S (TERNATNAL FERATN FOR AQUATIC SPORTS) HASTY AND SECRETIVE VOTE TO BAN TRANSGENR WOMEN OM WOMEN’S CLASSIFITN SPORT IS EPLY TROUBLG. IT IS VAL TO UNPACK SOME OF THE ETHIL ISSU WHEN “FAIRNS” IS PCHED AGAST “CLN.” ADVANCG THE RIGHTS OF LGBTIQ PEOPLE SOUTHEAST ASIABY ANTHONY J. LANGLOIS16 JUNE 2022SOUTHEAST ASIA HAS TAKEN ACTIVE STRIS TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS AND MOCRACY. BUT LOST THIS SHIFT IS THE ONGOG DISCRIMATN AND VLENCE AGAST LGBTIQ+ PERSONS THE REGN. LGBTIQ RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: MARRIAGE EQUALY AND THE DEATH PENALTY HI WIR CONCERNSBY PROFSOR PLA GERBER19 JUNE 2019MARRIAGE EQUALY AND THE ATH PENALTY FOR GAYS EQUENTLY RECEIVE THE ATTENTN OF THE TERNATNAL MEDIA. YET THE TWO ISSU FAIL TO PTURE WIR NCERNS REGARDG LGBTIQ RIGHTS. SIGN UP FOR ATRALIAN OUTLOOK AND AIIA NEWSLETTERS
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IT'S ONLY 25 YEARS SCE BEG GAY STOPPED BEG ILLEGAL ATRALIAWHEN TASMANIA CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUALY ON 1 MAY 1997, BEME THE LAST ATRALIAN STATE TO DO SO. TODAY, LGBTIQ+ ADVOT THERE SAY THERE’S STILL WORK TO BE DONE, PARTICULARLY TO PROTECT ATRALIANS WHO ARE TRANSGENR AND TERSEX.PUBLISHED 1 MAY 2022 7:34AMUPDATED 1 MAY 2022 8:09AMBY SARAH MNRSOURCE: SBS NEWSIMAGE: POLICE LEAD GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST RODNEY CROOME AWAY OM PROTTS AT SALAMAN MARKET 1988. (SUPPLIED / ROGER LOVELL, THE MERCURY (SUPPLIED BY RODNEY CROOME).)THE LATE 1980S WERE TOUGH FOR RODNEY CROOME. AGED HIS 20S AND NOT LONG AFTER G OUT AS GAY, HE CID TO BEE AN LGBTIQ+ ADVOTE HIS HOME STATE OF TASMANIA.“I DISVERED THEN, THAT BEE I WAS GAY, I LIVED A POLICE STATE,” HE SAYS.HE RELLS GOG TO A GAY MUNY MEETG AND LEARNG NOT TO E HIS SURNAME AS POLICE RMANTS ULD BE HIDN WH THE GROUP. HE WAS ALSO TOLD POLICE ULD BE WAG OUTSI TO ADD ATTEN’ R REGISTRATN PLAT TO THEIR SO-LLED “PK LIST”.TASMANIA'S STATE LAW AT THE TIME STILL CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUALY, MEANG SEX BETWEEN MEN WAS PUNISHABLE BY MORE THAN 20 YEARS PRISON. THE RT OF ATRALIA HAD CRIMALISED .POLICE ATTENDG A GAY LAW REFORM STALL AT HOBART'S SALAMAN MARKETS 1988. SOURCE: AAP / ROGER LOVELLTHE LAST TIME A PERSON WAS CHARGED WH HOMOSEXUALY OFFENC TASMANIA WAS THE MID-1980S, MR CROOME SAYS, BUT THE LAW “WAS STILL ED AS A JTIFITN BY THE ERNMENT AND OTHERS TO DISCRIMATE”.THE WORST EXAMPLE ME 1988 WHEN HE AND A SMALL GROUP OF ADVOT SET UP A STALL AT HOBART’S INIC SALAMAN MARKETS. THEY WERE ARMED WH NOTHG BUT A TABLE AND A PETN AND WERE ASKG PEOPLE TO SIGN SUPPORT OF CRIMALISG HOMOSEXUALY.“WHEN THE HOBART CY COUNCIL FOUND OUT WE WERE THERE, THEY LLED THE POLICE AND HAD ALL ARRTED,” MR CROOME SAYS.“THERE WERE MORE THAN 130 PEOPLE ARRTED OVER SEVEN WEEKS … THE BIGGT ACT OF GAY RIGHTS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ATRALIAN HISTORY.”POLICE LEAD GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST RODNEY CROOME AWAY OM PROTTS AT SALAMAN MARKET 1988. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / ROGER LOVELL, THE MERCURY (SUPPLIED BY RODNEY CROOME).RICHARD HALE, A FOUNDG MEMBER OF THE TASMANIAN GAY LAW REFORM GROUP, WAS ARRTED TWICE DURG THAT TIME.“WE NEVER KNEW OM WEEK TO WEEK EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN … AND SOME PEOPLE WERE TREATED QUE ROUGHLY,” HE SAYS.“WHEN YOU’RE THE PADDY WAGON BY YOURSELF … OR YOU WERE HELD A POLICE CELL FOR A LONG TIME AND YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS GOG TO HAPPEN NEXT, THOSE THGS WERE QUE SRY.”THERE WERE MORE THAN 130 PEOPLE ARRTED OVER SEVEN WEEKS … THE BIGGT ACT OF GAY RIGHTS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ATRALIAN HISTORY.RODNEY CROOMEANTI-GAY RALLI NTUED TO THE 1990S TASMANIA, MR CROOME SAYS. HE ATTEND SOME ULVERSTONE, A TOWN ON THE STATE’S NORTH AST, TO UNTER MONSTRATE.“HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WOULD GO ALONG AND LISTEN TO HATRED AND BILE ABOUT . I REMEMBER HEARG THOSE PEOPLE SHOUTG, ‘KILL THEM! KILL THEM!’”“ULVERSTONE WAS LABELLED AS ‘ATRALIA’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC TOWN’ THE TERNATNAL PRS.”HOW THEY WON THE FIGHTIN THE EARLY 1990S, TASMANIA’S UPPER HOE REJECTED LEGISLATN TO CRIMALISE HOMOSEXUALY, SO MR CROOME TOOK THE BATTLE TO THE UNED NATNS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMTEE.“IT WAS THE FIRST SUCH SE OM ATRALIA AND THE FIRST SE ABOUT CRIMALISATN BROUGHT TO THE UN OM ANYWHERE THE WORLD,” HE SAYS.IN APRIL 1994, THE UN LED MR CROOME’S FAVOUR, BUT THE BATTLE WASN’T OVER; HE’D NEED TO NVCE CANBERRA.GAY ACTIVISTS PROTTG HOBART AUGT 1988. SOURCE: AAP / ROGER LOVELL“WE ASKED THE FERAL ERNMENT TO E S POWERS UNR THE FERAL NSTUTN, PARTICULARLY TERMS OF OBSERVG TERNATNAL TREATI, TO ENACT A LAW THAT WOULD OVERRI THE TASMANIAN LAW,” HE SAYS.“BUT THAT DIDN’T VALIDATE THE TASMANIAN LAWS PLETELY, THE ONLY BODY THAT ULD DO THAT WAS THE HIGH COURT, SO AFTER THE FERAL LAW WAS PASSED, WE WENT TO THE HIGH COURT.“AFTER THAT, THE TASMANIAN ERNMENT KNEW THE GAME WAS UP. THE LIBERAL ERNMENT AT THE TIME ALLOWED A NSCIENCE VOTE, AND THE LAW WAS CHANGED.”RODNEY CROOME, CENTRE, AT A 1997 PRS NFERENCE FOLLOWG THE SUCCSFUL PASSAGE OF GAY LAW REFORM TASMANIA'S UPPER HOE. SOURCE: FACEBOOK / EVOLUTN PUBLISHG, AQUA ATRALIAN QUEER ARCHIVMR CROOME SAYS HE AND OTHER ADVOT HAD BEEN NNG “NOT ONLY A MPAIGN FOR LAW CHANGE BUT A MPAIGN TO CHANGE HEARTS AND MDS”.“WE WENT OUT AND SPOKE TO EVERY GROUP THAT WOULD LISTEN TO : SERVICE CLUBS, UNN BRANCH, SCHOOL GROUPS, SPORTG GROUPS; WE WENT ACROSS TASMANIA AND MA OUR SE.”MR HALE WAS AT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WHEN THE FAL VOTE HAPPENED ON 1 MAY 1997.“IT WAS THE EVENG, AND WAS THE END OF A NE-YEAR MPAIGN,” HE SAYS.“THERE WAS GREAT RELIEF. I’M A B SHIVERY JT THKG ABOUT .”IT PASSED BY JT ONE VOTE.LASTG IMPACTLYNN JARVIS IS THE CEO OF WORKG IT OUT, TASMANIA’S ONLY DITED LGBTIQ+ SERVICE AND TN PROVIR. IT WAS TABLISHED AS A DIRECT RULT OF THE LAW CHANGE TO CRIMALISE HOMOSEXUALY.DR JARVIS SAYS YOUNGER PEOPLE TASMANIA’S LQBTIQ+ MUNY ARE OFTEN SURPRISED WHEN THEY LEARN ABOUT THE STATE’S HISTORY.RODNEY CROOME AT SALAMAN MARKETS 2004. SOURCE: AAP / LIBBY SUTHERLAND“IF YOU’RE A YOUNG PERSON NOW, I’M SURE 25 YEARS AGO SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER LIFETIME AGO.“WHAT PEOPLE WENT THROUGH TO GET THAT REFORM WAS HORRIFIC … THEY HAD TO CHANGE THE VIEWS OF A WHOLE MUNY.”NOW, SHE SAYS, “WE HAVE AS A RULT SOME OF THE MOST PROGRSIVE LEGISLATN AND PROTECTNS PLACE OF ANY STATE OR TERRORY ATRALIA, AND SOMETIM THE WORLD”.IN 2017, 63.6 PER CENT OF PEOPLE TASMANIA VOTED ‘Y’ ATRALIA’S POSTAL VOTE TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ABOVE THE NATNAL TOTAL OF 61.6 PER CENT.THE FOLLOWG YEAR, TASMANIANS WERE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO APPLY TO HAVE HISTORIL NVICTNS FOR HOMOSEXUAL ACTS REMOVED OM THEIR CRIMAL RERDS.POSIVE CHANGE HAS ALSO E FOR TASMANIA’S WIR LGBTIQ+ MUNY, TRANSGENR WOMAN AND ADVOTE MARTE DELANEY SAYS.IN 2004, SHE BEGAN MEETG WH SUCCSIVE TASMANIAN ATTORNEYS-GENERAL, LLG FOR CHANG THE STATE’S BIRTH CERTIFITE LEGISLATN.MARTE DELANEY HAS FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF TRANSGENR ATRALIANS. SOURCE: SUPPLIED“15 YEARS LATER, RULTED PROBABLY THE WORLD’S BT AND MOST CLIVE BIRTH CERTIFITE LAWS,” SHE SAYS.TASMANIA NOW MAK GENR ON BIRTH CERTIFIT OPTNAL AND REMOV THE REQUIREMENT FOR TRANSGENR PEOPLE TO HAVE SURGERY ORR TO HAVE THEIR GENR REGNISED.WORK TO BE DONEDPE THE WS, THOSE WORKG WH THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY AGREE THERE’S STILL MORE TO BE DONE.MR CROOME, WHO WAS NAMED TASMANIAN OF THE YEAR 2015, WOULD NOW LIKE TO SEE THE STATE BAN GAY NVERSN PRACTIC. ADVOT ALSO AGREE MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO SUPPORT TRANSGENR AND TERSEX PEOPLE THE STATE.READ MORE'HAVE A SHRED OF EMPATHY': COVERAGE OF KATHERE DEV' MENTS IS HARMFUL, TRANSGENR ADVOT SAY“A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE STILL FEEL DISTRSED ABOUT LIVG AS THEIR TE SELV OUR MUNY,” DR JARVIS SAYS.LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE ARE STILL ED AS A “POLIL WEDGE” NATNAL BATE TOO, SHE ADDS, REFERENCG RECENT ARGUMENTS ABOUT TRANSGENR WOMEN'S PARTICIPATN SPORT.“THE LIV OF LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE ARE STILL EQUENTLY BATED THE PUBLIC DOMA AND I WOULD JT LIKE TO REMD EVERYBODY THAT THAT HAS REALLY SER NSEQUENC ... ON THE HEALTH AND WELLBEG OF THE MUNY.”MR CROOME AGRE. RODNEY CROOME TODAY. HE SAYS MORE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE TO PROTECT ATRALIA'S TRANSGENR AND GENR DIVERSE MUNY. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / SARAH MNR“OF URSE, WE’RE THE MIDST OF AN ELECTN MPAIGN, WHERE THE LIV OF SEXUAL AND GENR MORI ARE AGA BEG ATTACKED, PARTICULARLY TRANS AND GENR DIVERSE PEOPLE,” HE SAYS.“I THK ’S IMPORTANT THAT WE RELL THE MPAIGN [TO CRIMALISE HOMOSEXUALY] TASMANIA, AND THE SUCCS OF THAT MPAIGN, TURNG TASMANIA AROUND, TO GIVE HOPE AND SPIRATN FOR DOG THE SAME THG AGA TO THE FUTURE.”SIMONE-LISA ANRSON IS THE TASMANIAN REPRENTATIVE FOR INTERSEX PEER SUPPORT ATRALIA AND WANTS FURTHER LEGAL REFORMS TO SUPPORT THOSE WHOSE SEX CHARACTERISTICS DO NOT NFORM TO FEMALE OR MALE STEREOTYP.“TO STOP NON-NSENSUAL SURGERI ON FANTS, YOUNG PEOPLE, AND PEOPLE THAT HAVEN’T BEEN GIVEN ENOUGH RMATN ABOUT WHAT THE SURGERI ARE AND WHAT THEY DO TO THEIR BODI,” SHE SAYS.READ MORE'MY PARENTS REJECTED ME FOR BEG GAY'MERRAN NEWMAN IS THE CHAIRPERSON OF PFLAG TASMANIA (PARENTS, FAI AND IENDS OF LBIANS AND GAYS), AND SAYS THERE ARE STILL NEEDS THE MUNY GOG UNMET. THE ANISATN SUPPORTS PEOPLE LIVG RAL PARTS OF THE STATE.“SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT JT LGBTIQ+, SOME PEOPLE ALSO HAVE A DISABILY, OR THEY HAVE MENTAL HEALTH DISTRS, OR THEY’RE LONELY. WE HAVE TO SUPPORT THOSE PEOPLE SOMEHOW. WE HAVE TO KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, AND WE DON’T ALWAYS KNOW.”‘RABOW ISLAND’IN 2008, HOBART CY COUNCIL OFFICIALLY APOLOGISED FOR THE ARRTS THAT BEGAN AT SALAMAN MARKETS, ROLVG “THAT ACTNS SUCH AS THE WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGA”.TASMANIA POLICE ACKNOWLEDG ON S WEBSE “TASMANIA WAS THE LAST STATE TO CRIMALISE MALE-TO-MALE RELATNSHIPS,” AND SAYS “THIS HAS LEFT A LEGACY OF STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN THAT TASMANIA POLICE SEEKS TO ADDRS”. THE FORCE NOW EMPLOYS LGBTI LIAISON OFFICERS, HAS ENURAGED OFFICERS UNIFORM TO TAKE PART THE TASPRI PARA SCE 2015, AND SAYS HAS “A STRONG MMENT TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIVERSY OUR MUNY”.THE YELLOW LE MEMORIAL AT SALAMAN MARKETS PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE 130 PEOPLE ARRTED 1988. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / SARAH MNRTHE TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY APOLOGISED FOR LAWS CRIMALISG HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY AND THEIR IMPACT 2017."MANY TASMANIANS HAVE NTUED TO SUFFER OM DISTRS AND DISADVANTAGE AS A RULT OF THE CRIMALISATN OF NDUCT THAT IS NOW ACCEPTED AS LAWFUL,” THEN-PREMIER WILL HODGMAN SAID.THERE IS HOPE THE MUNY THAT UNR NEWLY-APPOTED STATE PREMIER JEREMY ROCKLIFF, THGS N ONLY IMPROVE.MR ROCKLIFF VOTED FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY AND HAS BEEN A SUPPORTER OF OTHER PRO-LGBTIQ+ LAWS. LAST YEAR, WHILE MISTER FOR MUNY SERVIC AND VELOPMENT, HE ANNOUNCED GRANTS TO SUPPORT THE MUNY, SAYG “ALL TASMANIANS SHOULD BE TREATED WH DIGNY AND RPECT – REGARDLS OF THEIR RELATNSHIP STAT, SEXUALY, GENR INTY OR TERSEX CHARACTERISTICS”.MR CROOME SAYS HE’S PROUD OF HOW FAR THE STATE HAS E SCE HIS WORK BEGAN.RECENTLY, ULVERSTONE, ONCE LABELLED ‘ATRALIA’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC TOWN’ AND WHERE THOSE ANTI-GAY RALLI WERE HELD, HE ATTEND A RABOW FLAG RAISG.“IT WAS AWFUL, AND YET NOW ULVERSTONE, THEY RAISE THE RABOW FLAG. HOW N ANYONE NOT BE PROUD OF THAT?”QLIFE PROVIS ATRALIA-WI ANONYMO LGBTI SUPPORT AND N BE REACHED THROUGH S ONLE CHAT SERVICE OR ON 1800 184 527.WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE YOUR STORY WH SBS NEWS? EMAIL SHARETAGSLIFEREMEND FOR YOU
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FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
The Universy of Melbourne's HILDA Survey 2017 reveals Atralians are beg more progrsive and, particular, more supportive of gay rights." name="scriptn * gay rights issues in australia *
Tasmania's state law at the time still crimalised homosexualy, meang sex between men was punishable by more than 20 years prison. Source: AAP / Roger LovellThe last time a person was charged wh homosexualy offenc Tasmania was the mid-1980s, Mr Croome says, but the law “was still ed as a jtifitn by the ernment and others to discrimate” worst example me 1988 when he and a small group of advot set up a stall at Hobart’s inic Salaman Markets. “There were more than 130 people arrted over seven weeks … the biggt act of gay rights civil disobedience Atralian history.
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
”There were more than 130 people arrted over seven weeks … the biggt act of gay rights civil disobedience Atralian CroomeAnti-gay ralli ntued to the 1990s Tasmania, Mr Croome says. ”How they won the fightIn the early 1990s, Tasmania’s upper hoe rejected legislatn to crimalise homosexualy, so Mr Croome took the battle to the Uned Natns Human Rights Commtee.
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 TRANSGENR INCLN AND THE TROUBLG FINA BAN ON TRANS WOMEN THE WOMEN’S CATEGORYBY DAMIEN PARRY AND DR CATHERE ORDWAY05 JULY 2022FINA’S (TERNATNAL FERATN FOR AQUATIC SPORTS) HASTY AND SECRETIVE VOTE TO BAN TRANSGENR WOMEN OM WOMEN’S CLASSIFITN SPORT IS EPLY TROUBLG. IT IS VAL TO UNPACK SOME OF THE ETHIL ISSU WHEN “FAIRNS” IS PCHED AGAST “CLN.” ADVANCG THE RIGHTS OF LGBTIQ PEOPLE SOUTHEAST ASIABY ANTHONY J. LANGLOIS16 JUNE 2022SOUTHEAST ASIA HAS TAKEN ACTIVE STRIS TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS AND MOCRACY. BUT LOST THIS SHIFT IS THE ONGOG DISCRIMATN AND VLENCE AGAST LGBTIQ+ PERSONS THE REGN. LGBTIQ RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: MARRIAGE EQUALY AND THE DEATH PENALTY HI WIR CONCERNSBY PROFSOR PLA GERBER19 JUNE 2019MARRIAGE EQUALY AND THE ATH PENALTY FOR GAYS EQUENTLY RECEIVE THE ATTENTN OF THE TERNATNAL MEDIA. YET THE TWO ISSU FAIL TO PTURE WIR NCERNS REGARDG LGBTIQ RIGHTS. SIGN UP FOR ATRALIAN OUTLOOK AND AIIA NEWSLETTERS
6 per followg year, Tasmanians were given the right to apply to have historil nvictns for homosexual acts removed om their crimal rerds.
Tasmania now mak genr on birth certifit optnal and remov the requirement for transgenr people to have surgery orr to have their genr to be doneDpe the ws, those workg wh the LGBTIQ+ muny agree there’s still more to be Croome, who was named Tasmanian of the Year 2015, would now like to see the state ban gay nversn practic. “I thk ’s important that we rell the mpaign [to crimalise homosexualy] Tasmania, and the succs of that mpaign, turng Tasmania around, to give hope and spiratn for dog the same thg aga to the future. “To stop non-nsensual surgeri on fants, young people, and people that haven’t been given enough rmatn about what the surgeri are and what they do to their bodi, ” she Newman is the chairperson of PFLAG Tasmania (parents, fai and iends of lbians and gays), and says there are still needs the muny gog unmet.
Source: SBS News / Sarah MnrThe Tasmanian Government officially apologised for laws crimalisg homosexual activy and their impact 2017. Recently, Ulverstone, once labelled ‘Atralia’s most homophobic town’ and where those anti-gay ralli were held, he attend a rabow flag raisg.
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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.
By The Numbers4% of Atralians scribed themselv as beg gay, lbian or bisexual78% of Atralians agree trans people serve the same rights and protectns as other Atralians66% of Atralians agree that young people should be able to accs healthre that supports them to live as their te selv.
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? 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). Pri Month: LGBTQ Rights the Spotlight - Atralian Instute of Internatnal Affairs - Atralian Instute of Internatnal Affairs Search Jo Donate About Us Atralian Outlook Natnal Conference Events Stat/Terrori Membership News Publitns Rourc Fd an Expert Youth and Communy Contact Us Follow Facebook Twter YouTube LkedIn Feed Member Log Atralian Outlook Home Atralian Outlook Pri Month: LGBTQ Rights the SpotlightIn this sectn Go back to Atralian OutlookPri Month: LGBTQ Rights the SpotlightBy Profsor Dennis Altman AM FASSAAnalysis June 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.