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Contents:

• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• 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 RIGHTS HAVE E A LONG WAY, BUT THERE'S MORE TO DO
• OPNSSM: REMEMBERG THE RISE OF SYDNEY'S LGBTI MOVEMENT AMID PROTTS AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISM
• GAY SYDNEY · CY GUI

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters. In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet. Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory.

In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends. ” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual. Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck.

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

As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on. Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg! 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. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.

”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici. Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St.

”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.

Vcent to overturn anti-gay laws om the lonial era that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

Homosexualy ntu to be crimalized the former Brish lony after many hundreds of years, leavg LGBTQ dividuals wh ltle if any legal protectns while vlent crim were beg mted wh impuny, the report said. Standg crimal s on the island put nsensual gay sex the same tegory as crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt, although there have been no recent nvictns unr the law.

Gay people have been targeted by fay members, neighbors, -workers, classmat and teachers -- as well as police officers, the report said.

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

In many of the episos, police allegedly refed to offer assistance, and some s beme openly discrimatory toward gay victims. Many of the terviewe said job hirgs and firgs were beg largely termed by sexual orientatn, while other gay people lucky to have jobs faced sexual harassment the workplace. "The crimalizatn of gay sex giv tac state sanctn to the discrimatn and vlence that LGBT people experience their daily liv and pels many to look abroad to live eely and fulfill their dreams, " said Cristian González Cabrera, gay rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch.

GAY RIGHTS HAVE E A LONG WAY, BUT THERE'S MORE TO DO

Six other Wtern natns -- cludg Domi, Grenada, Guyana, Jamai, and Sat Lucia -- ntue to crimalize gay sex, wh penalti as weighty as a prison for "gross cency wh another person of the same sex.

Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.

The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy.

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

"The bill will propose a total ban on what the Wt lls sex-reassignment prcriptns and procr, and prohib all activi that promote homosexualy, terms of... Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn.

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia". "It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says. She c a Uned Natns Populatn Fund (UNFPA) manual for out-of-school youths east and southern Ai, sayg promot homosexualy and is too explic.

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"It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy".