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• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• 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
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• WHERE WE NEED TO GO: THE FUTURE OF LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS ATRALIA
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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

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.

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. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.

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

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.

It is hard for me as a gay this untry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.

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That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable. ”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.

WHERE WE NEED TO GO: THE FUTURE OF LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS ATRALIA

Rightwg activist Bernard Gaynor applied to the board earlier this year to review the classifitn of Genr Queer by non-bary wrer Maia Kobabe, a graphic novel-style memoir about genr ’s ph follows the footsteps of nservative activists the US, who have shown up drov to school meetgs and mand the book removed om the US, Genr Queer is the most challenged book librari. However, Gaynor and his supporters appealed agast the cisn and the board sought submissns on the classifitn om the an opn released on Thursday, the review board said Genr Queer warranted to keep this classifitn bee “the ntent of the publitn is jtified ntext, is appropriate for s tend dience of people who are terted the thor or terted the subjects of genr inty and asexualy, and has a posive tone and character as well as many layers of posive msagg” review board found the pictns of sex and nudy the book were jtified the ntext of a nonfictn memoir scribg the thor’s lived board noted that the M ratg would advise the public that the book may offend some sectns of the adult muny and may not be suable for younger the review, the board was flood wh more than 500 submissns both for and agast the book, forcg to lay makg a cisn for several more weeks until Thursday.

“The book is highly pornographic, ” Gaynor told Ne March. ”Gaynor said on Friday he was seekg legal advice on the week Big W removed om shelv the sale of Wele To Sex, a sex tn and nsent book aimed at adolcents, after a social media mpaign agast the book led to staff beg abed attempted boytt of the book has rulted a boom sal and has subsequently sold out on former US print Barack Obama this week labelled ph to ban books om librari by the Amerin right as “profoundly misguid”. People who are gay, lbian or bisexual are protected om discrimatn by law.

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Example: It may be discrimatn for an employer not to promote an employee to a more senr role bee he is gay. In 1978, the year the first Mardi Gras Para walked down Oxford Street, homosexualy was illegal NSW.

Ls than three s prr, Victoria, homosexualy was punishable by ath. The age of nsent for gay sex was also not equalised until 2016, when Queensland change s legistatn. In jt the past few years, we’ve seen the passage of marriage equaly, the repeal of forced divorce laws for trans people wishg to transn, and the scrappg of ‘gay panic’ fence murr s across Atralia.

However, this is not to say that homophobia and discrimatn, while mostly illegal, are not still major problems this untry. In the more regnal areas of the untry, homophobic views are likely to be more mon. Croome is also right to pot to tn as one of the ma pockets of society where homophobia is still allowed to lurk.