A brief history of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr social movements

Contents:

• FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE

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.

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. Robyn allud to the profsnal risks that were volved around beg intified as homosexual, for your 'd been livg, by that stage 1978, wh your lifelong partner, Johan, for many years. In fact, Augt of the same year there was a natnal homosexual nference where 104 people were kd of kept buildg this sense of no, we're not gog to hi anymore.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Homosexualy, though, remaed illegal New South Wal, and many other stat around LAVERACK: It was still illegal New South Wal up until 1984, which if you thk about , that's not all that long ago. MICHAEL KIRBY: You've got to be grateful for small VAN EXTEL: But, Robyn, do you believe that crimalisg homosexualy a way is more fg than Mardi Gras? ’ We've got to remember that, now that we've got this so-lled relig eedom right, that is gog to e up to try and take away the equaly and digny of LGBT VAN EXTEL: Shirleene, the flip si of crimalisg homosexualy was that there was crimaly on the part of agast gay and lbian, particularly gay men, that was a strong issue around attacks by homophobic men.

I mean, I went to and spoke at least 20 funerals, and you'd go to the chapel or the relig ocsn and then on one si of the aisle, the central aisle, were the gay fay and on the other si was the blood fay. But then one of his clients died, he went to a funeral and not a mentn of the Ankalis, not a mentn of the tly lovg support he got om the gay blood fay was sayg, ‘Oh y, Uncle So-and-so, we ed to get together and talk about football and so on. But really is not a good thg to flict on people, and 's still happeng Atralia RASKOPOULOS: Y, I mean, I thk when people talk about the LGBT+ muny, or the trans muny, or the gay muny, those muni don't exist for people the closet.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

Ask about realy, and a way that is an add dimensn to LGBTIQ liv, and 's one that is paful and many tears are shed on the pillow of young, gay LGBT people. I have team mat who are pleased that I am on their team, I have opponents who are pleased that they get to play wh y, I thk broar sportg muni are well behd kd of learng about trans bodi, and how they teract wh the VAN EXTEL: Robyn, you were stmental brgg the Gay Gam to Atralia. Que different to Mardi Gras a sense that was an ternatnal event, so there were people om all over the fact, the transgenr issu around the Gay Gam were some of the most challengg issu that we had, as anisers.

Roller rby — smashg LAVERACK: I thk, I mean, fairns the Atralian Gay Gam absolutely smashed , bee they did do exactly RASKOPOULOS: Y, LAVERACK: They talked wh the muny, they talked about how to fe so that was accepted by the trans muny, I mean who else to fe RASKOPOULOS: Totally. And they're now promotg this issue wh the sportg I thk we need to promote this also LGBT group self bee amongst gay people, you don't always you get a mirror image often of the general muny and —JORDAN RASKOPOULOS: Oh, of urse, y. And that we mt e that momentum and we mt e that energy to repay that solidary and that bt that was given by people who were placed a really prer posn by irrponsible ‘no’ mpaigners, who put out very misleadg and very accurate rmatn, and really put those people the worst type of certaly I thk that everyone I know who was volved that mpaign certaly do feel an obligatn to keep workg on that, bee of RASKOPOULOS: Y, I thk that the difficult thg for the future is that we have achieved so much for gay and lbian rights that young people growg up the next generatn who are gay and lbian are gog to grow up wh the privilege of beg broadly accepted society, broadly celebrated society.