There was a time when Atralian law crimalised homosexualy, but over time the laws changed. We explore the laws and history around gay rights for World Pri. (Morn History | Civics & Cizenship)
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FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
Tonight's panel is themed as we've said around this year's all important 40th anniversary of the 1978 Sydney Gay Mardi Gras march. We're gog to be talkg about that, some of the landmark fights and achievements lbian and gay rights, how societal attus are evolvg and the challeng and issu I'd like now to troduce our very fabulo expert panellists, they've all lived and breathed the battl, they're the vanguard of the ongog ph for equaly.
She's a former Mardi Gras board director, foundg member of Pri and foundg director of Aurora, which rais funds for gay, lbian and transgenr muny next to me here is the fabulo, ternatnally acclaimed edian, sger, actrs and self-proclaimed rantr —JORDAN RASKOPOULOS: I'm a rantr. There had been a meetg the morng, a prott meetg — at that stage New South Wal homosexualy between nsentg gay men was still a crimal offence. In New South Wal was a major turng pot terms of polil activy, lead to, 1980, what was then the Foundatn of Sydney Gay Mardi Gras as an send fg moment for me, was 1980 when actually spl kd of s polil si om s celebratn si.