Bob Brown facts. Robert Jam Brown, also known as Bob (born 27 December, 1944), is a former Atralian Greens Senator and former Parliamentary lear of the Atralian Greens. He was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Atralia and the first openly gay lear of a polil party Atralia.[1] Prr to that, he served as a member for Denison the Tasmanian Hoe of Assembly om 1983 to 1993 and Lear of the Tasmanian Greens om their foundatn 1992 to 1993. On 13 April, 2012, Brown rigned as Greens lear and was succeed by his puty Christe Milne and dited his tentn to rign om the Senate June. In May 2012 the replacement was selected and has been named as Peter Whish-Wilson who is an enomist and wemaker who has prevly stood o the greens and assumed office on 21 June 2012 and Senator Brown rigned on 15 June 2012.
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- BOB BROWN, CLIMATE ACTIVIST, GAY IN, GREENS CO-FOUNR, CELEBRATED IN NEW FILM
- ON THIS GAY DAY: BOB BROWN WAS ELECTED TO FERAL PARLIAMENT
- ON THIS GAY DAY: BOB BROWN WAS ELECTED TO FERAL PARLIAMENT
- BOB BROWN, CLIMATE ACTIVIST, GAY IN, GREENS CO-FOUNR, CELEBRATED IN NEW FILM
BOB BROWN, CLIMATE ACTIVIST, GAY IN, GREENS CO-FOUNR, CELEBRATED IN NEW FILM
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Brown spent 19 days jail, but on the day of his release he was elected to the Tasmanian state legislature, beg that body’s first Green, as well as s first openly gay, reprentative. Durg his tenure the Tasmanian legislature, Brown proposed legislative iativ on nuclear regulatn, thanasia, and gay rights. His electn to the Atralian senate ma him the first openly gay man parliament and his mpaigns for the environment led to the formatn of the first Greens party the world.
Bob Brown beme the first openly gay polician Atralia’s feral parliament. Brown was the first openly gay person the Atralian parliament, and the first party lear who was gay. Dty Sprgfield was open about her sexualy, even makg bold statements about happily beg gay the early 1970s.
At this time there were very few openly gay artists.
ON THIS GAY DAY: BOB BROWN WAS ELECTED TO FERAL PARLIAMENT
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Bob Brown troduced var private members’ iativ cludg gay law reforms, ath wh digny, lowerg parliamentary salari, among others. Bob Brown openly admted that he had a gay partner (durg a newspaper terview 1976). Durg that time, homosexualy was a crime Tasmania.
A later, a bhwalk and a bag of croissants were the only aphrodisiacs they I met Pl the late 1980s when he asked me to speak to a meetg of the Gay and Lbian Law Reform Group Hobart.
Like me, he’d grown up gay and been trapped a homophobic culture. This was when you got 20 years jail for homosexual ’s strength is that he’s not a worrier. I was nng a gay law-reform group and ved him to speak.
ON THIS GAY DAY: BOB BROWN WAS ELECTED TO FERAL PARLIAMENT
“It’s one thg beg homosexual but another thg to be a relatnship wh a Greens polician! They already knew I was gay, but they didn’t know who I was seeg.
It’s one thg beg homosexual but another thg to be a relatnship wh a Greens polician! Transformed the Tasmanian Greens, and then the Atralian Greens, to an electoral Nic WalkerAt the same time as Hanson wtered on about how good Aborig Atralia had , an openly gay man wh no children stood an almost empty Senate to liver his visn. As a 32-year-old doctor nservative ral Tasmania, way back 1976, when even Elton John had girliends, he publicly clared his homosexualy so others might be spared his "years of misery".
"In this neck of the woods, tellg people that I was havg a relatnship wh Bob Brown was more of an oral than tellg people I was gayBrown's partner, Pl Thomas, owns a farm south of Hobart, and the senator was out the paddocks one afternoon, chippg thistl, when there was a ll on his mobile phone om Nigel Brennan's distrght mother. After much trma and soul-searchg - cludg submtg himself to aversn therapy, durg which he was wired to a mache that livered electric shocks each time a picture of a nu man was shown orr to cure his "urg" - he had fally accepted he was gay and had e out to his iends and fay 25 years earlier. Thomas is om a fifth-generatn Tasmanian farmg fay and says, "In this neck of the woods, tellg people that I was havg a relatnship wh Bob Brown was more of an oral than tellg people I was gay.
BOB BROWN, CLIMATE ACTIVIST, GAY IN, GREENS CO-FOUNR, CELEBRATED IN NEW FILM
He moved to London for a few years and talked to a unsellor who suggted that rather than tryg to cure himself, he may be better off jt acceptg that he was gay. He worked through his angst and 1976 gave an terview, at a time when homosexualy was still illegal Tasmania, to The Examer Lncton unr the headle Doctor Says He's Gay: "Many young people are gog through a great al of trma over somethg for which they are not to blame, " Dr Brown told the newspaper.
"I have seen such an immense change om the total reprsn and crimaly of homosexualy my lifetime, " he explas now. "Jt thk about , " Enomou says; "who would have thought that a gay nservatnist om Tasmania would bee one of the most fluential polil figur Atralia?
Then you have [Sarah] Hanson-Young wh her gay-marriage thg. First openly gay member of the Atralian Parliament, and first gay lear of a polil party Atralia.