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• 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
• IT'S ONLY 25 YEARS SCE BEG GAY STOPPED BEG ILLEGAL ATRALIAWHEN TASMANIA CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUALY ON 1 MAY 1997, BEME THE LAST ATRALIAN STATE TO DO SO. TODAY, LGBTIQ+ ADVOT THERE SAY THERE’S STILL WORK TO BE DONE, PARTICULARLY TO PROTECT ATRALIANS WHO ARE TRANSGENR AND TERSEX.PUBLISHED 1 MAY 2022 7:34AMUPDATED 1 MAY 2022 8:09AMBY SARAH MNRSOURCE: SBS NEWSIMAGE: POLICE LEAD GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST RODNEY CROOME AWAY OM PROTTS AT SALAMAN MARKET 1988. (SUPPLIED / ROGER LOVELL, THE MERCURY (SUPPLIED BY RODNEY CROOME).)THE LATE 1980S WERE TOUGH FOR RODNEY CROOME. AGED HIS 20S AND NOT LONG AFTER G OUT AS GAY, HE CID TO BEE AN LGBTIQ+ ADVOTE HIS HOME STATE OF TASMANIA.“I DISVERED THEN, THAT BEE I WAS GAY, I LIVED A POLICE STATE,” HE SAYS.HE RELLS GOG TO A GAY MUNY MEETG AND LEARNG NOT TO E HIS SURNAME AS POLICE RMANTS ULD BE HIDN WH THE GROUP. HE WAS ALSO TOLD POLICE ULD BE WAG OUTSI TO ADD ATTEN’ R REGISTRATN PLAT TO THEIR SO-LLED “PK LIST”.TASMANIA'S STATE LAW AT THE TIME STILL CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUALY, MEANG SEX BETWEEN MEN WAS PUNISHABLE BY MORE THAN 20 YEARS PRISON. THE RT OF ATRALIA HAD CRIMALISED .POLICE ATTENDG A GAY LAW REFORM STALL AT HOBART'S SALAMAN MARKETS 1988. SOURCE: AAP / ROGER LOVELLTHE LAST TIME A PERSON WAS CHARGED WH HOMOSEXUALY OFFENC TASMANIA WAS THE MID-1980S, MR CROOME SAYS, BUT THE LAW “WAS STILL ED AS A JTIFITN BY THE ERNMENT AND OTHERS TO DISCRIMATE”.THE WORST EXAMPLE ME 1988 WHEN HE AND A SMALL GROUP OF ADVOT SET UP A STALL AT HOBART’S INIC SALAMAN MARKETS. THEY WERE ARMED WH NOTHG BUT A TABLE AND A PETN AND WERE ASKG PEOPLE TO SIGN SUPPORT OF CRIMALISG HOMOSEXUALY.“WHEN THE HOBART CY COUNCIL FOUND OUT WE WERE THERE, THEY LLED THE POLICE AND HAD ALL ARRTED,” MR CROOME SAYS.“THERE WERE MORE THAN 130 PEOPLE ARRTED OVER SEVEN WEEKS … THE BIGGT ACT OF GAY RIGHTS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ATRALIAN HISTORY.”POLICE LEAD GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST RODNEY CROOME AWAY OM PROTTS AT SALAMAN MARKET 1988. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / ROGER LOVELL, THE MERCURY (SUPPLIED BY RODNEY CROOME).RICHARD HALE, A FOUNDG MEMBER OF THE TASMANIAN GAY LAW REFORM GROUP, WAS ARRTED TWICE DURG THAT TIME.“WE NEVER KNEW OM WEEK TO WEEK EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN … AND SOME PEOPLE WERE TREATED QUE ROUGHLY,” HE SAYS.“WHEN YOU’RE THE PADDY WAGON BY YOURSELF … OR YOU WERE HELD A POLICE CELL FOR A LONG TIME AND YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS GOG TO HAPPEN NEXT, THOSE THGS WERE QUE SRY.”THERE WERE MORE THAN 130 PEOPLE ARRTED OVER SEVEN WEEKS … THE BIGGT ACT OF GAY RIGHTS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ATRALIAN HISTORY.RODNEY CROOMEANTI-GAY RALLI NTUED TO THE 1990S TASMANIA, MR CROOME SAYS. HE ATTEND SOME ULVERSTONE, A TOWN ON THE STATE’S NORTH AST, TO UNTER MONSTRATE.“HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WOULD GO ALONG AND LISTEN TO HATRED AND BILE ABOUT . I REMEMBER HEARG THOSE PEOPLE SHOUTG, ‘KILL THEM! KILL THEM!’”“ULVERSTONE WAS LABELLED AS ‘ATRALIA’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC TOWN’ THE TERNATNAL PRS.”HOW THEY WON THE FIGHTIN THE EARLY 1990S, TASMANIA’S UPPER HOE REJECTED LEGISLATN TO CRIMALISE HOMOSEXUALY, SO MR CROOME TOOK THE BATTLE TO THE UNED NATNS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMTEE.“IT WAS THE FIRST SUCH SE OM ATRALIA AND THE FIRST SE ABOUT CRIMALISATN BROUGHT TO THE UN OM ANYWHERE THE WORLD,” HE SAYS.IN APRIL 1994, THE UN LED MR CROOME’S FAVOUR, BUT THE BATTLE WASN’T OVER; HE’D NEED TO NVCE CANBERRA.GAY ACTIVISTS PROTTG HOBART AUGT 1988. SOURCE: AAP / ROGER LOVELL“WE ASKED THE FERAL ERNMENT TO E S POWERS UNR THE FERAL NSTUTN, PARTICULARLY TERMS OF OBSERVG TERNATNAL TREATI, TO ENACT A LAW THAT WOULD OVERRI THE TASMANIAN LAW,” HE SAYS.“BUT THAT DIDN’T VALIDATE THE TASMANIAN LAWS PLETELY, THE ONLY BODY THAT ULD DO THAT WAS THE HIGH COURT, SO AFTER THE FERAL LAW WAS PASSED, WE WENT TO THE HIGH COURT.“AFTER THAT, THE TASMANIAN ERNMENT KNEW THE GAME WAS UP. THE LIBERAL ERNMENT AT THE TIME ALLOWED A NSCIENCE VOTE, AND THE LAW WAS CHANGED.”RODNEY CROOME, CENTRE, AT A 1997 PRS NFERENCE FOLLOWG THE SUCCSFUL PASSAGE OF GAY LAW REFORM TASMANIA'S UPPER HOE. SOURCE: FACEBOOK / EVOLUTN PUBLISHG, AQUA ATRALIAN QUEER ARCHIVMR CROOME SAYS HE AND OTHER ADVOT HAD BEEN NNG “NOT ONLY A MPAIGN FOR LAW CHANGE BUT A MPAIGN TO CHANGE HEARTS AND MDS”.“WE WENT OUT AND SPOKE TO EVERY GROUP THAT WOULD LISTEN TO : SERVICE CLUBS, UNN BRANCH, SCHOOL GROUPS, SPORTG GROUPS; WE WENT ACROSS TASMANIA AND MA OUR SE.”MR HALE WAS AT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WHEN THE FAL VOTE HAPPENED ON 1 MAY 1997.“IT WAS THE EVENG, AND WAS THE END OF A NE-YEAR MPAIGN,” HE SAYS.“THERE WAS GREAT RELIEF. I’M A B SHIVERY JT THKG ABOUT .”IT PASSED BY JT ONE VOTE.LASTG IMPACTLYNN JARVIS IS THE CEO OF WORKG IT OUT, TASMANIA’S ONLY DITED LGBTIQ+ SERVICE AND TN PROVIR. IT WAS TABLISHED AS A DIRECT RULT OF THE LAW CHANGE TO CRIMALISE HOMOSEXUALY.DR JARVIS SAYS YOUNGER PEOPLE TASMANIA’S LQBTIQ+ MUNY ARE OFTEN SURPRISED WHEN THEY LEARN ABOUT THE STATE’S HISTORY.RODNEY CROOME AT SALAMAN MARKETS 2004. SOURCE: AAP / LIBBY SUTHERLAND“IF YOU’RE A YOUNG PERSON NOW, I’M SURE 25 YEARS AGO SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER LIFETIME AGO.“WHAT PEOPLE WENT THROUGH TO GET THAT REFORM WAS HORRIFIC … THEY HAD TO CHANGE THE VIEWS OF A WHOLE MUNY.”NOW, SHE SAYS, “WE HAVE AS A RULT SOME OF THE MOST PROGRSIVE LEGISLATN AND PROTECTNS PLACE OF ANY STATE OR TERRORY ATRALIA, AND SOMETIM THE WORLD”.IN 2017, 63.6 PER CENT OF PEOPLE TASMANIA VOTED ‘Y’ ATRALIA’S POSTAL VOTE TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ABOVE THE NATNAL TOTAL OF 61.6 PER CENT.THE FOLLOWG YEAR, TASMANIANS WERE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO APPLY TO HAVE HISTORIL NVICTNS FOR HOMOSEXUAL ACTS REMOVED OM THEIR CRIMAL RERDS.POSIVE CHANGE HAS ALSO E FOR TASMANIA’S WIR LGBTIQ+ MUNY, TRANSGENR WOMAN AND ADVOTE MARTE DELANEY SAYS.IN 2004, SHE BEGAN MEETG WH SUCCSIVE TASMANIAN ATTORNEYS-GENERAL, LLG FOR CHANG THE STATE’S BIRTH CERTIFITE LEGISLATN.MARTE DELANEY HAS FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF TRANSGENR ATRALIANS. SOURCE: SUPPLIED“15 YEARS LATER, RULTED PROBABLY THE WORLD’S BT AND MOST CLIVE BIRTH CERTIFITE LAWS,” SHE SAYS.TASMANIA NOW MAK GENR ON BIRTH CERTIFIT OPTNAL AND REMOV THE REQUIREMENT FOR TRANSGENR PEOPLE TO HAVE SURGERY ORR TO HAVE THEIR GENR REGNISED.WORK TO BE DONEDPE THE WS, THOSE WORKG WH THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY AGREE THERE’S STILL MORE TO BE DONE.MR CROOME, WHO WAS NAMED TASMANIAN OF THE YEAR 2015, WOULD NOW LIKE TO SEE THE STATE BAN GAY NVERSN PRACTIC. ADVOT ALSO AGREE MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO SUPPORT TRANSGENR AND TERSEX PEOPLE THE STATE.READ MORE'HAVE A SHRED OF EMPATHY': COVERAGE OF KATHERE DEV' MENTS IS HARMFUL, TRANSGENR ADVOT SAY“A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE STILL FEEL DISTRSED ABOUT LIVG AS THEIR TE SELV OUR MUNY,” DR JARVIS SAYS.LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE ARE STILL ED AS A “POLIL WEDGE” NATNAL BATE TOO, SHE ADDS, REFERENCG RECENT ARGUMENTS ABOUT TRANSGENR WOMEN'S PARTICIPATN SPORT.“THE LIV OF LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE ARE STILL EQUENTLY BATED THE PUBLIC DOMA AND I WOULD JT LIKE TO REMD EVERYBODY THAT THAT HAS REALLY SER NSEQUENC ... ON THE HEALTH AND WELLBEG OF THE MUNY.”MR CROOME AGRE. RODNEY CROOME TODAY. HE SAYS MORE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE TO PROTECT ATRALIA'S TRANSGENR AND GENR DIVERSE MUNY. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / SARAH MNR“OF URSE, WE’RE THE MIDST OF AN ELECTN MPAIGN, WHERE THE LIV OF SEXUAL AND GENR MORI ARE AGA BEG ATTACKED, PARTICULARLY TRANS AND GENR DIVERSE PEOPLE,” HE SAYS.“I THK ’S IMPORTANT THAT WE RELL THE MPAIGN [TO CRIMALISE HOMOSEXUALY] TASMANIA, AND THE SUCCS OF THAT MPAIGN, TURNG TASMANIA AROUND, TO GIVE HOPE AND SPIRATN FOR DOG THE SAME THG AGA TO THE FUTURE.”SIMONE-LISA ANRSON IS THE TASMANIAN REPRENTATIVE FOR INTERSEX PEER SUPPORT ATRALIA AND WANTS FURTHER LEGAL REFORMS TO SUPPORT THOSE WHOSE SEX CHARACTERISTICS DO NOT NFORM TO FEMALE OR MALE STEREOTYP.“TO STOP NON-NSENSUAL SURGERI ON FANTS, YOUNG PEOPLE, AND PEOPLE THAT HAVEN’T BEEN GIVEN ENOUGH RMATN ABOUT WHAT THE SURGERI ARE AND WHAT THEY DO TO THEIR BODI,” SHE SAYS.READ MORE'MY PARENTS REJECTED ME FOR BEG GAY'MERRAN NEWMAN IS THE CHAIRPERSON OF PFLAG TASMANIA (PARENTS, FAI AND IENDS OF LBIANS AND GAYS), AND SAYS THERE ARE STILL NEEDS THE MUNY GOG UNMET. THE ANISATN SUPPORTS PEOPLE LIVG RAL PARTS OF THE STATE.“SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT JT LGBTIQ+, SOME PEOPLE ALSO HAVE A DISABILY, OR THEY HAVE MENTAL HEALTH DISTRS, OR THEY’RE LONELY. WE HAVE TO SUPPORT THOSE PEOPLE SOMEHOW. WE HAVE TO KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, AND WE DON’T ALWAYS KNOW.”‘RABOW ISLAND’IN 2008, HOBART CY COUNCIL OFFICIALLY APOLOGISED FOR THE ARRTS THAT BEGAN AT SALAMAN MARKETS, ROLVG “THAT ACTNS SUCH AS THE WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGA”.TASMANIA POLICE ACKNOWLEDG ON S WEBSE “TASMANIA WAS THE LAST STATE TO CRIMALISE MALE-TO-MALE RELATNSHIPS,” AND SAYS “THIS HAS LEFT A LEGACY OF STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN THAT TASMANIA POLICE SEEKS TO ADDRS”. THE FORCE NOW EMPLOYS LGBTI LIAISON OFFICERS, HAS ENURAGED OFFICERS UNIFORM TO TAKE PART THE TASPRI PARA SCE 2015, AND SAYS HAS “A STRONG MMENT TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIVERSY OUR MUNY”.THE YELLOW LE MEMORIAL AT SALAMAN MARKETS PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE 130 PEOPLE ARRTED 1988. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / SARAH MNRTHE TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY APOLOGISED FOR LAWS CRIMALISG HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY AND THEIR IMPACT 2017."MANY TASMANIANS HAVE NTUED TO SUFFER OM DISTRS AND DISADVANTAGE AS A RULT OF THE CRIMALISATN OF NDUCT THAT IS NOW ACCEPTED AS LAWFUL,” THEN-PREMIER WILL HODGMAN SAID.THERE IS HOPE THE MUNY THAT UNR NEWLY-APPOTED STATE PREMIER JEREMY ROCKLIFF, THGS N ONLY IMPROVE.MR ROCKLIFF VOTED FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY AND HAS BEEN A SUPPORTER OF OTHER PRO-LGBTIQ+ LAWS. LAST YEAR, WHILE MISTER FOR MUNY SERVIC AND VELOPMENT, HE ANNOUNCED GRANTS TO SUPPORT THE MUNY, SAYG “ALL TASMANIANS SHOULD BE TREATED WH DIGNY AND RPECT – REGARDLS OF THEIR RELATNSHIP STAT, SEXUALY, GENR INTY OR TERSEX CHARACTERISTICS”.MR CROOME SAYS HE’S PROUD OF HOW FAR THE STATE HAS E SCE HIS WORK BEGAN.RECENTLY, ULVERSTONE, ONCE LABELLED ‘ATRALIA’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC TOWN’ AND WHERE THOSE ANTI-GAY RALLI WERE HELD, HE ATTEND A RABOW FLAG RAISG.“IT WAS AWFUL, AND YET NOW ULVERSTONE, THEY RAISE THE RABOW FLAG. HOW N ANYONE NOT BE PROUD OF THAT?”QLIFE PROVIS ATRALIA-WI ANONYMO LGBTI SUPPORT AND N BE REACHED THROUGH S ONLE CHAT SERVICE OR ON 1800 184 527.WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE YOUR STORY WH SBS NEWS? EMAIL SHARETAGSLIFEREMEND FOR YOU

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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

Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras – SGLMG is one of the olst and ntuoly operatg LGBTQ+ anizatns Atralia and was built on the foundatns laid by early muny activists who fought for queer rights a time of opprsn. Midsumma Ftival - this annual ftival  Melbourne is one of Atralia’s leadg and long-nng LGBTQ+ events and is nsired alongsi Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras as one of the major pri celebratns the untry. Some untri are acceptg, even gay-iendly, and have strong LGBTQ+ protectns such as safeguards that prerve dividuals' rights to marriage and employment.

In the world's most homophobic untri, LGBTQI+ liftyl may be illegal and punishable by prison sentenc, lashgs, or the ath penalty. Bee of this breadth, termg each untry's level of LGBTQI+ support requir the parison of many ditors, rangg om whether gay marriage is legal to whether LGBTQI+ dividuals are accepted by the general populatn or subjected to discrimatn and possible vigilante vlence. As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty.

LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr). Two of the most notable advancements LGBTQI+ rights the US recent s are the legalizatn of gay marriage and the legalizatn of adoptn of children by same-sex upl. Gay marriage legalizatn expand om one state 2004 to all fifty stat 2015 through feral urt lgs, state urt lgs, state legislatn, and direct popular vot.

IT'S ONLY 25 YEARS SCE BEG GAY STOPPED BEG ILLEGAL ATRALIAWHEN TASMANIA CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUALY ON 1 MAY 1997, BEME THE LAST ATRALIAN STATE TO DO SO. TODAY, LGBTIQ+ ADVOT THERE SAY THERE’S STILL WORK TO BE DONE, PARTICULARLY TO PROTECT ATRALIANS WHO ARE TRANSGENR AND TERSEX.PUBLISHED 1 MAY 2022 7:34AMUPDATED 1 MAY 2022 8:09AMBY SARAH MNRSOURCE: SBS NEWSIMAGE: POLICE LEAD GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST RODNEY CROOME AWAY OM PROTTS AT SALAMAN MARKET 1988. (SUPPLIED / ROGER LOVELL, THE MERCURY (SUPPLIED BY RODNEY CROOME).)THE LATE 1980S WERE TOUGH FOR RODNEY CROOME. AGED HIS 20S AND NOT LONG AFTER G OUT AS GAY, HE CID TO BEE AN LGBTIQ+ ADVOTE HIS HOME STATE OF TASMANIA.“I DISVERED THEN, THAT BEE I WAS GAY, I LIVED A POLICE STATE,” HE SAYS.HE RELLS GOG TO A GAY MUNY MEETG AND LEARNG NOT TO E HIS SURNAME AS POLICE RMANTS ULD BE HIDN WH THE GROUP. HE WAS ALSO TOLD POLICE ULD BE WAG OUTSI TO ADD ATTEN’ R REGISTRATN PLAT TO THEIR SO-LLED “PK LIST”.TASMANIA'S STATE LAW AT THE TIME STILL CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUALY, MEANG SEX BETWEEN MEN WAS PUNISHABLE BY MORE THAN 20 YEARS PRISON. THE RT OF ATRALIA HAD CRIMALISED .POLICE ATTENDG A GAY LAW REFORM STALL AT HOBART'S SALAMAN MARKETS 1988. SOURCE: AAP / ROGER LOVELLTHE LAST TIME A PERSON WAS CHARGED WH HOMOSEXUALY OFFENC TASMANIA WAS THE MID-1980S, MR CROOME SAYS, BUT THE LAW “WAS STILL ED AS A JTIFITN BY THE ERNMENT AND OTHERS TO DISCRIMATE”.THE WORST EXAMPLE ME 1988 WHEN HE AND A SMALL GROUP OF ADVOT SET UP A STALL AT HOBART’S INIC SALAMAN MARKETS. THEY WERE ARMED WH NOTHG BUT A TABLE AND A PETN AND WERE ASKG PEOPLE TO SIGN SUPPORT OF CRIMALISG HOMOSEXUALY.“WHEN THE HOBART CY COUNCIL FOUND OUT WE WERE THERE, THEY LLED THE POLICE AND HAD ALL ARRTED,” MR CROOME SAYS.“THERE WERE MORE THAN 130 PEOPLE ARRTED OVER SEVEN WEEKS … THE BIGGT ACT OF GAY RIGHTS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ATRALIAN HISTORY.”POLICE LEAD GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST RODNEY CROOME AWAY OM PROTTS AT SALAMAN MARKET 1988. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / ROGER LOVELL, THE MERCURY (SUPPLIED BY RODNEY CROOME).RICHARD HALE, A FOUNDG MEMBER OF THE TASMANIAN GAY LAW REFORM GROUP, WAS ARRTED TWICE DURG THAT TIME.“WE NEVER KNEW OM WEEK TO WEEK EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN … AND SOME PEOPLE WERE TREATED QUE ROUGHLY,” HE SAYS.“WHEN YOU’RE THE PADDY WAGON BY YOURSELF … OR YOU WERE HELD A POLICE CELL FOR A LONG TIME AND YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS GOG TO HAPPEN NEXT, THOSE THGS WERE QUE SRY.”THERE WERE MORE THAN 130 PEOPLE ARRTED OVER SEVEN WEEKS … THE BIGGT ACT OF GAY RIGHTS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ATRALIAN HISTORY.RODNEY CROOMEANTI-GAY RALLI NTUED TO THE 1990S TASMANIA, MR CROOME SAYS. HE ATTEND SOME ULVERSTONE, A TOWN ON THE STATE’S NORTH AST, TO UNTER MONSTRATE.“HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WOULD GO ALONG AND LISTEN TO HATRED AND BILE ABOUT . I REMEMBER HEARG THOSE PEOPLE SHOUTG, ‘KILL THEM! KILL THEM!’”“ULVERSTONE WAS LABELLED AS ‘ATRALIA’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC TOWN’ THE TERNATNAL PRS.”HOW THEY WON THE FIGHTIN THE EARLY 1990S, TASMANIA’S UPPER HOE REJECTED LEGISLATN TO CRIMALISE HOMOSEXUALY, SO MR CROOME TOOK THE BATTLE TO THE UNED NATNS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMTEE.“IT WAS THE FIRST SUCH SE OM ATRALIA AND THE FIRST SE ABOUT CRIMALISATN BROUGHT TO THE UN OM ANYWHERE THE WORLD,” HE SAYS.IN APRIL 1994, THE UN LED MR CROOME’S FAVOUR, BUT THE BATTLE WASN’T OVER; HE’D NEED TO NVCE CANBERRA.GAY ACTIVISTS PROTTG HOBART AUGT 1988. SOURCE: AAP / ROGER LOVELL“WE ASKED THE FERAL ERNMENT TO E S POWERS UNR THE FERAL NSTUTN, PARTICULARLY TERMS OF OBSERVG TERNATNAL TREATI, TO ENACT A LAW THAT WOULD OVERRI THE TASMANIAN LAW,” HE SAYS.“BUT THAT DIDN’T VALIDATE THE TASMANIAN LAWS PLETELY, THE ONLY BODY THAT ULD DO THAT WAS THE HIGH COURT, SO AFTER THE FERAL LAW WAS PASSED, WE WENT TO THE HIGH COURT.“AFTER THAT, THE TASMANIAN ERNMENT KNEW THE GAME WAS UP. THE LIBERAL ERNMENT AT THE TIME ALLOWED A NSCIENCE VOTE, AND THE LAW WAS CHANGED.”RODNEY CROOME, CENTRE, AT A 1997 PRS NFERENCE FOLLOWG THE SUCCSFUL PASSAGE OF GAY LAW REFORM TASMANIA'S UPPER HOE. SOURCE: FACEBOOK / EVOLUTN PUBLISHG, AQUA ATRALIAN QUEER ARCHIVMR CROOME SAYS HE AND OTHER ADVOT HAD BEEN NNG “NOT ONLY A MPAIGN FOR LAW CHANGE BUT A MPAIGN TO CHANGE HEARTS AND MDS”.“WE WENT OUT AND SPOKE TO EVERY GROUP THAT WOULD LISTEN TO : SERVICE CLUBS, UNN BRANCH, SCHOOL GROUPS, SPORTG GROUPS; WE WENT ACROSS TASMANIA AND MA OUR SE.”MR HALE WAS AT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WHEN THE FAL VOTE HAPPENED ON 1 MAY 1997.“IT WAS THE EVENG, AND WAS THE END OF A NE-YEAR MPAIGN,” HE SAYS.“THERE WAS GREAT RELIEF. I’M A B SHIVERY JT THKG ABOUT .”IT PASSED BY JT ONE VOTE.LASTG IMPACTLYNN JARVIS IS THE CEO OF WORKG IT OUT, TASMANIA’S ONLY DITED LGBTIQ+ SERVICE AND TN PROVIR. IT WAS TABLISHED AS A DIRECT RULT OF THE LAW CHANGE TO CRIMALISE HOMOSEXUALY.DR JARVIS SAYS YOUNGER PEOPLE TASMANIA’S LQBTIQ+ MUNY ARE OFTEN SURPRISED WHEN THEY LEARN ABOUT THE STATE’S HISTORY.RODNEY CROOME AT SALAMAN MARKETS 2004. SOURCE: AAP / LIBBY SUTHERLAND“IF YOU’RE A YOUNG PERSON NOW, I’M SURE 25 YEARS AGO SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER LIFETIME AGO.“WHAT PEOPLE WENT THROUGH TO GET THAT REFORM WAS HORRIFIC … THEY HAD TO CHANGE THE VIEWS OF A WHOLE MUNY.”NOW, SHE SAYS, “WE HAVE AS A RULT SOME OF THE MOST PROGRSIVE LEGISLATN AND PROTECTNS PLACE OF ANY STATE OR TERRORY ATRALIA, AND SOMETIM THE WORLD”.IN 2017, 63.6 PER CENT OF PEOPLE TASMANIA VOTED ‘Y’ ATRALIA’S POSTAL VOTE TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ABOVE THE NATNAL TOTAL OF 61.6 PER CENT.THE FOLLOWG YEAR, TASMANIANS WERE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO APPLY TO HAVE HISTORIL NVICTNS FOR HOMOSEXUAL ACTS REMOVED OM THEIR CRIMAL RERDS.POSIVE CHANGE HAS ALSO E FOR TASMANIA’S WIR LGBTIQ+ MUNY, TRANSGENR WOMAN AND ADVOTE MARTE DELANEY SAYS.IN 2004, SHE BEGAN MEETG WH SUCCSIVE TASMANIAN ATTORNEYS-GENERAL, LLG FOR CHANG THE STATE’S BIRTH CERTIFITE LEGISLATN.MARTE DELANEY HAS FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF TRANSGENR ATRALIANS. SOURCE: SUPPLIED“15 YEARS LATER, RULTED PROBABLY THE WORLD’S BT AND MOST CLIVE BIRTH CERTIFITE LAWS,” SHE SAYS.TASMANIA NOW MAK GENR ON BIRTH CERTIFIT OPTNAL AND REMOV THE REQUIREMENT FOR TRANSGENR PEOPLE TO HAVE SURGERY ORR TO HAVE THEIR GENR REGNISED.WORK TO BE DONEDPE THE WS, THOSE WORKG WH THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY AGREE THERE’S STILL MORE TO BE DONE.MR CROOME, WHO WAS NAMED TASMANIAN OF THE YEAR 2015, WOULD NOW LIKE TO SEE THE STATE BAN GAY NVERSN PRACTIC. ADVOT ALSO AGREE MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO SUPPORT TRANSGENR AND TERSEX PEOPLE THE STATE.READ MORE'HAVE A SHRED OF EMPATHY': COVERAGE OF KATHERE DEV' MENTS IS HARMFUL, TRANSGENR ADVOT SAY“A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE STILL FEEL DISTRSED ABOUT LIVG AS THEIR TE SELV OUR MUNY,” DR JARVIS SAYS.LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE ARE STILL ED AS A “POLIL WEDGE” NATNAL BATE TOO, SHE ADDS, REFERENCG RECENT ARGUMENTS ABOUT TRANSGENR WOMEN'S PARTICIPATN SPORT.“THE LIV OF LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE ARE STILL EQUENTLY BATED THE PUBLIC DOMA AND I WOULD JT LIKE TO REMD EVERYBODY THAT THAT HAS REALLY SER NSEQUENC ... ON THE HEALTH AND WELLBEG OF THE MUNY.”MR CROOME AGRE. RODNEY CROOME TODAY. HE SAYS MORE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE TO PROTECT ATRALIA'S TRANSGENR AND GENR DIVERSE MUNY. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / SARAH MNR“OF URSE, WE’RE THE MIDST OF AN ELECTN MPAIGN, WHERE THE LIV OF SEXUAL AND GENR MORI ARE AGA BEG ATTACKED, PARTICULARLY TRANS AND GENR DIVERSE PEOPLE,” HE SAYS.“I THK ’S IMPORTANT THAT WE RELL THE MPAIGN [TO CRIMALISE HOMOSEXUALY] TASMANIA, AND THE SUCCS OF THAT MPAIGN, TURNG TASMANIA AROUND, TO GIVE HOPE AND SPIRATN FOR DOG THE SAME THG AGA TO THE FUTURE.”SIMONE-LISA ANRSON IS THE TASMANIAN REPRENTATIVE FOR INTERSEX PEER SUPPORT ATRALIA AND WANTS FURTHER LEGAL REFORMS TO SUPPORT THOSE WHOSE SEX CHARACTERISTICS DO NOT NFORM TO FEMALE OR MALE STEREOTYP.“TO STOP NON-NSENSUAL SURGERI ON FANTS, YOUNG PEOPLE, AND PEOPLE THAT HAVEN’T BEEN GIVEN ENOUGH RMATN ABOUT WHAT THE SURGERI ARE AND WHAT THEY DO TO THEIR BODI,” SHE SAYS.READ MORE'MY PARENTS REJECTED ME FOR BEG GAY'MERRAN NEWMAN IS THE CHAIRPERSON OF PFLAG TASMANIA (PARENTS, FAI AND IENDS OF LBIANS AND GAYS), AND SAYS THERE ARE STILL NEEDS THE MUNY GOG UNMET. THE ANISATN SUPPORTS PEOPLE LIVG RAL PARTS OF THE STATE.“SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT JT LGBTIQ+, SOME PEOPLE ALSO HAVE A DISABILY, OR THEY HAVE MENTAL HEALTH DISTRS, OR THEY’RE LONELY. WE HAVE TO SUPPORT THOSE PEOPLE SOMEHOW. WE HAVE TO KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, AND WE DON’T ALWAYS KNOW.”‘RABOW ISLAND’IN 2008, HOBART CY COUNCIL OFFICIALLY APOLOGISED FOR THE ARRTS THAT BEGAN AT SALAMAN MARKETS, ROLVG “THAT ACTNS SUCH AS THE WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGA”.TASMANIA POLICE ACKNOWLEDG ON S WEBSE “TASMANIA WAS THE LAST STATE TO CRIMALISE MALE-TO-MALE RELATNSHIPS,” AND SAYS “THIS HAS LEFT A LEGACY OF STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN THAT TASMANIA POLICE SEEKS TO ADDRS”. THE FORCE NOW EMPLOYS LGBTI LIAISON OFFICERS, HAS ENURAGED OFFICERS UNIFORM TO TAKE PART THE TASPRI PARA SCE 2015, AND SAYS HAS “A STRONG MMENT TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIVERSY OUR MUNY”.THE YELLOW LE MEMORIAL AT SALAMAN MARKETS PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE 130 PEOPLE ARRTED 1988. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / SARAH MNRTHE TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY APOLOGISED FOR LAWS CRIMALISG HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY AND THEIR IMPACT 2017."MANY TASMANIANS HAVE NTUED TO SUFFER OM DISTRS AND DISADVANTAGE AS A RULT OF THE CRIMALISATN OF NDUCT THAT IS NOW ACCEPTED AS LAWFUL,” THEN-PREMIER WILL HODGMAN SAID.THERE IS HOPE THE MUNY THAT UNR NEWLY-APPOTED STATE PREMIER JEREMY ROCKLIFF, THGS N ONLY IMPROVE.MR ROCKLIFF VOTED FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY AND HAS BEEN A SUPPORTER OF OTHER PRO-LGBTIQ+ LAWS. LAST YEAR, WHILE MISTER FOR MUNY SERVIC AND VELOPMENT, HE ANNOUNCED GRANTS TO SUPPORT THE MUNY, SAYG “ALL TASMANIANS SHOULD BE TREATED WH DIGNY AND RPECT – REGARDLS OF THEIR RELATNSHIP STAT, SEXUALY, GENR INTY OR TERSEX CHARACTERISTICS”.MR CROOME SAYS HE’S PROUD OF HOW FAR THE STATE HAS E SCE HIS WORK BEGAN.RECENTLY, ULVERSTONE, ONCE LABELLED ‘ATRALIA’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC TOWN’ AND WHERE THOSE ANTI-GAY RALLI WERE HELD, HE ATTEND A RABOW FLAG RAISG.“IT WAS AWFUL, AND YET NOW ULVERSTONE, THEY RAISE THE RABOW FLAG. HOW N ANYONE NOT BE PROUD OF THAT?”QLIFE PROVIS ATRALIA-WI ANONYMO LGBTI SUPPORT AND N BE REACHED THROUGH S ONLE CHAT SERVICE OR ON 1800 184 527.WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE YOUR STORY WH SBS NEWS? EMAIL SHARETAGSLIFEREMEND FOR YOU

Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual report State-Sponsored Homophobia, same-sex nduct was crimalized 67 of the Uned Natns' 193 member stat 2020 and was facto illegal two more.

In other untri, homosexualy is technilly legal, but promotn of "nontradnal sexual relatns", whether by anizatns or dividuals, is illegal.