Gay nversn therapy will be illegal Victoria, spe tensns wh the Coaln and ncerns om some relig lears that the bill passed by the Upper Hoe uld have untend nsequenc.
Contents:
- HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT VICTORIA'S GAY NVERSN BILL
- VICTORIAN BILL BANNG GAY NVERSN THERAPY PASS UPPER HOE AS AMENDMENTS FAIL
- FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
- HOW A GAY MAN OM SGAPORE FOUND ACCEPTANCE ATRALIA
HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT VICTORIA'S GAY NVERSN BILL
A bill banng gay nversn practic looks set to pass the Upper Hoe State Parliament today. So what is ? And why are some seekg to change the legislatn? * homosexuality law melbourne *
"Daniel Andrews needs to listen to the many Victorians who support banng gay nversn therapi but have legimate ncerns about the draftg of this bill.
A bill banng LGBTIQ+ nversn therapy has passed Victoria's Upper Hoe, and will bee law, spe tensns wh the Coaln and ncerns om some relig lears that the law uld have untend pots:The bill mak illegal to try and change or supprs a person's genr inty or sexual orientatnHarriet Shg, the only openly gay MP the Upper Hoe ma an emotnal speech favour of the bill Liberal Bernie Fn said the bill was an attack on basic eedoms and eedom of choiceThe bill passed whout amendments at around 10:30pm on Thursday night, 27 vot to Change or Supprsn (Conversn) Practis Prohibn Bill mak illegal to try and change or supprs a person's sexual orientatn or genr inty also giv power to Victoria's Equal Opportuny and Human Rights Commissn to vtigate and refer matters to law clus prison terms of up to 10 years or hefty f for anyone ught tryg to supprs or change someone's sexualy by nductg supprsn bill had the support of the Greens' Samantha Ratnam, Fna Patton om the Reason Party and Andy Meddick om the Animal Jtice only openly gay MP the Victorian Upper Hoe, Harriet Shg, ma an emotnal speech favour of the bill.
VICTORIAN BILL BANNG GAY NVERSN THERAPY PASS UPPER HOE AS AMENDMENTS FAIL
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Equaly Atralia CEO Anna Brown weled the new law, which follows siar reforms around gay nversn therapy Queensland and the ACT. While the subject of homosexual law reform was first raised the public arena Victoria around 1969, ntued to be a vexed public issue throughout the urse of the 1970s. It was only when the Homosexual Law Reform Coaln (HLRC), a aln of gay groups Melbourne, was formed 1977, that the issue gaed meangful tractn.
After staed lobbyg by the HLRC and other tert groups, late 1980 the Liberal Hamer ernment troduced the Crim (Sexual Offenc) Bill 1980 to remove homosexual offenc om the crimal law. 47% of people who are gay or lbian have experienced workplace sexual harassment the past five years4 100Atralians scribed themselv as beg gay, lbian or bisexual.
FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
The polil manovr over gay law reform Atralia have been characterised by a seri of feats and setbacks before eventual succs. * homosexuality law melbourne *
He was an outspoken advote for social jtice and active reformg var social issu cludg dtrial law, the stat of women, equal opportuny, sentencg, and homosexualy and s crimalisatn. As a member of the Equal Opportuny Advisory Council, Julian Phillips advised the Victorian Premier on matters of race, age, sexual and genr an terview wh Graham Willett 2004 he discsed his volvement homosexual law reform as begng wh his work as a civil liberti lawyer lled upon to reprent men arrted for homosexual 1973 as a member of the feral Commtee on Discrimatn Employment he was loted Premier Hamer’s office and assisted by a rearch assistant went through the Attorney General’s Department fil on homosexual offenc and arrts. He sought and obtaed permissn to import pornography to Atralia for rearch a highly-publicised round of police entrapment of homosexual men at Black Rock Beach 1976, the Victorian ernment turned s attentn to the issue of the crimalisatn of homosexual acts between men.
The legislatn that was prented to Parliament 1980 was strongly fluenced by his 2016-2017, a review of his papers – supported by the Melbourne Engagement Grants Scheme, revealed the extent of his volvement matters relatg to homosexualy and transgenr volvement wh transgenr issu began wh an approach by a group of self-scribed transsexuals, soon anised to the Victorian Transsexuals Coaln.
This is an aspect of Atralian trans history that provis an opportuny for future too do a discsn about the possibily of the expungement of crimal rerds, somethg that was applied to homosexual offenc Victoria only on the Julian Phillips llectnFor a plete x to the llectn, see the onle talogue note that the llectn is rtricted accs: permissn mt be sought via the Universy of Melbourne Archiv before NumberFolrNot1‘Incent Asslts 1975-76’Inclus: Statistics for cent asslts 1975An tertg clippg about sailors and homosexualsHandwrten not regardg sNot om discsn [Julian Phillips and members of the XXX] ‘Rearch on Sexual Offenc’Inclus reports, mostly om the UK, 1979-1980, on: age of nsent; nsent and sentencg (cludg material on the crease prosecutns after crimalisatn 1967); reference to a proposal to rce the age of nsent South Atralia.
HOW A GAY MAN OM SGAPORE FOUND ACCEPTANCE ATRALIA
1 ‘Rearch’WA Royal Commissn on Homosexualy Report; photopy of unsourced transcript – Appendix A Public Opn on Gays, Appendix B Atralian Anti-Gay Laws, Appendix F Medil Opn 3. 2 ‘Publitns and Newsletters on HomosexualyPublitns cludg Man and Society [UK], Christian Society and Homosexualy [Antony Grey], Albany Tst publitns; Harry Benjam Transvtism and Transsexualism the Male and Female [Journal of Sex Rearch, May 1967]; Spectm; GLF; Camp Ink; Summer Offensive; Dr Dunn Revolutn Bookshop.