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asexual, s, ssie, stralia, stralian, bisexual, fictn, gay, gay-and-lbian, genr-qutng, glbt, glbtq, glbtqi, homosexualy, tersex, lbian, lgbt, lgbt-ya, lgbtq, lgbtqi, lgbtqia, loveozya, oz, ozya, queer, same-sex-attracted, trans, transgenr, young-adult. The anizatn’s choice of name was a nsc play on the term ed by many Atralian gays of the time to refer to themselv, “mp, ” a word that would rema age until the adoptn of the word “gay” om the Uned Stat gay liberatn movement to Atralian English 1972. The rt of the saw the appearance of three short-lived tl jog Camp Ink, the Sydney Gay Liberatn Newsletter (1972-1973) which beme Gay Lib News (1973-1974), and Red and Lavenr: Newsletter of the Socialist Lbians and Male Homosexuals, published om 1976 until 1978.

In 1982, s tle changed to simply The Star (1982-1985), followed by the Star Observer (1985-1986), Sydney’s Star Observer (1986-1987), Sydney Star Observer (1987-2014) and the ntemporary Star Observer, at The 1980s saw the addn to the Atralian gay prs scene of a journal om the Sydney Gay Wrers Collective, Inversns, published 1980 and 1981, and the first issue of an annual serial, Atralia and Beyond: a gay and lbian gui to Atralia & New Zealand, which would rema prt until 1991. While the motn on this pot did not rry, tert remaed as to “whether the law should attach crimal nsequenc to all physil sexual acts between male homosexuals and whether Christians were unr a duty to support the matenance of existg laws” (Report 1971: 1.

The full text of that speech was reprted his 1979 llectn of wrgs Comg Out the Seventi unr the tle “Fom on Gay Liberatn “and offers a unique wdow to how the ias and tes of the then-new gay liberatn movement were beg exprsed wh an Atralian ntext. Its preface c the work of Aled Ksey and quot the Wolfenn Report om the UK as a amework for the then-recent visibily of homosexualy as a social issue, then exprs ncern that chang the social environment towards homosexuals may tempt many people to choose homosexual rather than heterosexual (and Scripturally sanctned) norms of behavr.

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The “Remendatns” sectn of the Report lls upon what terms “practicg homosexuals” to cease their activi and strs the threat that the homosexual movement pos to Wtern society before llg for reforms the area of the homosexualy laws of Atralia (towards a greater uniformy) and police practic and the availabily of psychologil rehabilatn.

In the same year, on the other si of the ntent, homosexualy beme a subject of bate and discsn the state of Wtern Atralia when a bill was troduced to the Legislative Assembly to amend the sectns of the Crimal Co related to homosexual acts. The basic charge of the Commissn was to exame sectns 184 and 181 of the Crimal Co and to hold heargs and receive wrten and verbal ttimony on attus towards homosexuals Wtern Atralia, the qutn of the victimizatn of homosexuals (rangg om asslt to blackmail), solicatn, and the stat of medil and mental health facili for those who wished to change their sexual orientatn.

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