Learng om the liv of gay and lbian Atralians

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.

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

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. 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.

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

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. 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.