Face the facts: Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex People | Atralian Human Rights Commissn

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• 50 YEARS ON: HOW THE STONEWALL RTS SPIRED ATRALIA'S LGBTIQ+ MOVEMENTIN 1969, A RT A NEW YORK BAR SPARKED A GLOBAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HALF A CENTURY ON, THOSE VOLVED THE ATRALIAN MPAIGN TELL SBS NEWS WHAT IMPACT HAD.THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK AND SYDNEY MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTY IMAG/AAPIN THE EARLY HOURS OF 28 JUNE 1969, AFTER A WARM NEW YORK NIGHT, A GROUP OF LGBTIQ+ LOLS CID TO STAND UP TO POLICE ABE AT THE CY'S NOW-LEGENDARY STONEWALL INN.THEIR ACTNS WOULD CHANGE THE URSE OF GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD, CLUDG AS FAR AWAY AS ATRALIA.THIS WEEK MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS.PATRONS OF THE STONEWALL INN ON THE NIGHT OF THE 1969 RTS. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGFIGHTG BACKIN LATE 1960S AMERI, HOMOSEXUALY WAS STILL SEEN AS A MENTAL ILLNS AND GAY SEX WAS ILLEGAL EXCEPT ILLOIS.FEW VENU WELED OPENLY GAY AMERINS, AND EXCEPTNS - CLUDG THE MAFIA-N STONEWALL INN NEW YORK'S GREENWICH VILLAGE - OFTEN ATTRACTED THE ATTENTN OF THORI.POLICE RAIDS WERE ED TO EXPOSE THOSE WHO WERE GAY AND MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF MEN WHO CHOSE TO CROSS-DRS. BUT THGS CHANGED WHEN A GROUP OF GAY MEN AND WOMEN, DRAG QUEENS, AND TRANSGENR NEW YORKERS CHOSE TO FIGHT BACK AGAST OFFICERS WHO HAD RAID THE BAR FOR THE SEND TIME THAT WEEK.A CROWD ATTEMPTS TO IMPE POLICE ARRTS OUTSI THE STONEWALL INN GREENWICH VILLAGE 1969. SOURCE: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/GETTY IMAG"THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK," ATRALIAN LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST GARRY WOTHERSPOON TOLD SBS NEWS THIS WEEK.STONEWALL PATRONS REFED TO STAND LE AND HAVE THEIR IDS - AND THEIR BODI - CHECKED BY POLICE.A CROWD GATHERED, SHOUTG BEGAN, AND A SCUFFLE BROKE OUT. POLICE BATONS WERE DRAWN AND VLENT PROTTS AND MONSTRATNS LASTED FOR MORE THAN THREE DAYS. "IT BEME THE SYMBOLIC START OF THE FIGHT FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD. IT WAS LIKE A STONE DROPPED A POND AND S RIPPL SPREAD."THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK. - GARRY WOTHERSPOON, ATRALIAN ACTIVISTMARK SEGAL PARTICIPATED THE RTS. HE TOLD AFP: "IT WAS THE FIRST TIME OUR MUNY IMPRISONED THE POLICE, WHO HAD ALWAYS IMPRISONED BEFORE".POLICE VLENCE NEAR THE STONEWALL INN 1970. SOURCE: AAPA YEAR AFTER THE RTS, JUNE 1970, NEW YORK STAGED S FIRST EVER GAY PRI PARA CELEBRATG THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY.FROM STONEWALL TO SYDNEYBEFORE LONG, THE "RIPPL" OF STONEWALL H ATRALIA, WHERE LGBTIQ+ MOMENTUM HAD BEEN BUILDG, BUT DISCRIMATN REMAED WISPREAD.IN 1970, ATRALIANS CHRISTABEL POLL AND JOHN WARE "ME OUT" THE ATRALIAN NEWSPAPER AND ANNOUNCED THE FORMATN OF CAMP; THE CAMPAIGN AGAST MORAL PERSECUTN.NEW YORK'S STONEWALL INN. SOURCE: AAP"FROM THERE, ACTIVISM STARTED," SAID MR WOTHERSPOON, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF CAMP S EARLY DAYS."CAMP STARTED TO AL WH SEVERAL THGS, SUCH AS THE MEDIL PROFSN WHICH DID AVERSN THERAPY AND PSYCHOSURGERY, TO AL WH THE LAW WHICH CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY, TO AL WH THE CHURCH WHICH REGARD AS SFUL," HE SAID.AN EARLY MARDI GRAS. SOURCE: SUPPLIEDTHEN MARCH 1978, ATRALIANS KEN DAVIS AND ANNE TALVE RECEIVED A LETTER OM THE SAN FRANCIS GAY FREEDOM DAY ANISERS LLG ON PEOPLE OVERSEAS TO STAND UP FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS AND MEMORATE THE STONEWALL RTS."AS REPRENTATIV OF SAN FRANCIS'S LARGE AND ACTIVE GAY MUNY, WE ARE ENURAGG WORLDWI ACTIVI FOR GAY RIGHTS JUNE 25TH AND THE WEEK BEFORE ORR TO PRENT THE LARGT AND MOST UNIFIED SHOW OF SUPPORT HISTORY," THE LETTER READ.KEN DAVIS SYDNEY'S TAYLOR SQUARE THIS WEEK. SOURCE: EMMA LAWSON/SBS NEWSIT WAS ONE ELEMENT THAT LED TO THE FIRST MARDI GRAS BEG HELD SYDNEY LATER THAT YEAR."WE CID TO HAVE A FOM AND THEN A MARCH, AND WE CID TO HAVE A NIGHT TIME PARTY TAYLOR SQUARE, A CELEBRATN, NOT A MONSTRATN," MR DAVIS - WHO BEME ONE OF THE ORIGAL 78ERS - TOLD SBS NEWS.BUT THE EVENTS WERE MET WH POLICE VLENCE AND ARRTS.POLICE NONT PARTICIPANTS. SOURCE: SUPPLIED"THE UNEXPECTED POLICE ATTACK ON THAT MARDI GRAS WAS VERY TRMATIC, SO WE REALISED ON THE NTH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL AMERI, WE WERE A SIAR SORT OF NFLICT WH POLICE POWER SYDNEY," MR DAVIS SAID."THE FACT WE WERE ATTACKED ... A VERY UNPROVOKED AND VLENT ATTACK REALLY JT GALVANISED AND THEN WE REALISED THAT WE HAD THIS ECHO OF THE STONEWALL REBELLN."THE FOLLOWG YEAR, UP TO 3,000 PEOPLE MARCHED AN CINT-EE PARA.MARDI GRAS WENT ON TO BEE AN ANNUAL EVENT SYDNEY AND TO THIS DAY RETAS THE SPIR OF BOTH PROTT AND CELEBRATN ACROSS THE UNTRY.SYDNEY IS CURRENTLY BIDDG TO BE THE HOST OF WORLDPRI 2023, AND AFTER THE LEGACY OF STONEWALL, JUNE IS NSIRED AS PRI MONTH AROUND THE WORLD.MEMBERS OF THE TIWI ISLANDS TRANSGENR MUNY AT MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTYIN 2018, NSW POLICE MISSNER MICHAEL FULLER GAVE AN OFFICIAL APOLOGY TO SYDNEY'S 78ERS OF BEHALF OF THE FORCE.AND EARLIER THIS MONTH, NEW YORK CY’S POLICE MISSNER JAM O’NEILL APOLOGISED FOR THE STONEWALL RAID WHICH SPARKED THE ORIGAL RT, SAYG “THE ACTNS TAKEN BY THE NYPD WERE WRONG”.'MORE WORK TO DO ATRALIA'REFLECTG ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL, MR WOTHERSPOON SAID THE EVENTS OF 28 JUNE 1969 NTUE TO HAVE AN IMPACT."[STONEWALL] BUILT MOMENTUM AND GRADUALLY ATTUS CHANGED THE WIR SOCIETY," HE SAID.BUT WHILE PROGRS HAD BEEN SIGNIFINT, HE SAID THERE ARE STILL "BLACK SPOTS" AROUND LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ATRALIA.HE SAID THE UNTRY NEED STRONGER LAWS "WHICH PROTECT LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE OM DISCRIMATN" AND THAT WE NEED TO TAKE MORE "REFUGE WHO ARE FLEEG BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY".THE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT BILL PASS THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV 2017. SOURCE: AAPTHE SENTIMENT WAS ECHOED BY MR DAVIS."WE'VE MA THE EXTRAORDARY GAS, NOW WE N GET MARRIED ... [BUT] I THK NOW 'S IMPORTANT TO NOT BE PLACENT.""I THK 50 YEARS HAS BEEN A BIG CYCLE BUT WE SHOULDN'T ASSUME THAT THE FUTURE IS EASY."REARS SEEKG SUPPORT N FD A LIST OF LGBTIQ+ SERVIC AT ADDNAL REPORTG: AFPSHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 27 JUNE 2019 4:55PMUPDATED 28 JUNE 2019 10:32AMBY EMMA LAWSON, NICK BAKERTAGSATRALIANORTH AMERISHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT SUMMARY
• PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
• 50 YEARS ON: HOW THE STONEWALL RTS SPIRED ATRALIA'S LGBTIQ+ MOVEMENTIN 1969, A RT A NEW YORK BAR SPARKED A GLOBAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HALF A CENTURY ON, THOSE VOLVED THE ATRALIAN MPAIGN TELL SBS NEWS WHAT IMPACT HAD.THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK AND SYDNEY MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTY IMAG/AAPIN THE EARLY HOURS OF 28 JUNE 1969, AFTER A WARM NEW YORK NIGHT, A GROUP OF LGBTIQ+ LOLS CID TO STAND UP TO POLICE ABE AT THE CY'S NOW-LEGENDARY STONEWALL INN.THEIR ACTNS WOULD CHANGE THE URSE OF GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD, CLUDG AS FAR AWAY AS ATRALIA.THIS WEEK MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS.PATRONS OF THE STONEWALL INN ON THE NIGHT OF THE 1969 RTS. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGFIGHTG BACKIN LATE 1960S AMERI, HOMOSEXUALY WAS STILL SEEN AS A MENTAL ILLNS AND GAY SEX WAS ILLEGAL EXCEPT ILLOIS.FEW VENU WELED OPENLY GAY AMERINS, AND EXCEPTNS - CLUDG THE MAFIA-N STONEWALL INN NEW YORK'S GREENWICH VILLAGE - OFTEN ATTRACTED THE ATTENTN OF THORI.POLICE RAIDS WERE ED TO EXPOSE THOSE WHO WERE GAY AND MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF MEN WHO CHOSE TO CROSS-DRS. BUT THGS CHANGED WHEN A GROUP OF GAY MEN AND WOMEN, DRAG QUEENS, AND TRANSGENR NEW YORKERS CHOSE TO FIGHT BACK AGAST OFFICERS WHO HAD RAID THE BAR FOR THE SEND TIME THAT WEEK.A CROWD ATTEMPTS TO IMPE POLICE ARRTS OUTSI THE STONEWALL INN GREENWICH VILLAGE 1969. SOURCE: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/GETTY IMAG"THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK," ATRALIAN LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST GARRY WOTHERSPOON TOLD SBS NEWS THIS WEEK.STONEWALL PATRONS REFED TO STAND LE AND HAVE THEIR IDS - AND THEIR BODI - CHECKED BY POLICE.A CROWD GATHERED, SHOUTG BEGAN, AND A SCUFFLE BROKE OUT. POLICE BATONS WERE DRAWN AND VLENT PROTTS AND MONSTRATNS LASTED FOR MORE THAN THREE DAYS. "IT BEME THE SYMBOLIC START OF THE FIGHT FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD. IT WAS LIKE A STONE DROPPED A POND AND S RIPPL SPREAD."THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK. - GARRY WOTHERSPOON, ATRALIAN ACTIVISTMARK SEGAL PARTICIPATED THE RTS. HE TOLD AFP: "IT WAS THE FIRST TIME OUR MUNY IMPRISONED THE POLICE, WHO HAD ALWAYS IMPRISONED BEFORE".POLICE VLENCE NEAR THE STONEWALL INN 1970. SOURCE: AAPA YEAR AFTER THE RTS, JUNE 1970, NEW YORK STAGED S FIRST EVER GAY PRI PARA CELEBRATG THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY.FROM STONEWALL TO SYDNEYBEFORE LONG, THE "RIPPL" OF STONEWALL H ATRALIA, WHERE LGBTIQ+ MOMENTUM HAD BEEN BUILDG, BUT DISCRIMATN REMAED WISPREAD.IN 1970, ATRALIANS CHRISTABEL POLL AND JOHN WARE "ME OUT" THE ATRALIAN NEWSPAPER AND ANNOUNCED THE FORMATN OF CAMP; THE CAMPAIGN AGAST MORAL PERSECUTN.NEW YORK'S STONEWALL INN. SOURCE: AAP"FROM THERE, ACTIVISM STARTED," SAID MR WOTHERSPOON, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF CAMP S EARLY DAYS."CAMP STARTED TO AL WH SEVERAL THGS, SUCH AS THE MEDIL PROFSN WHICH DID AVERSN THERAPY AND PSYCHOSURGERY, TO AL WH THE LAW WHICH CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY, TO AL WH THE CHURCH WHICH REGARD AS SFUL," HE SAID.AN EARLY MARDI GRAS. SOURCE: SUPPLIEDTHEN MARCH 1978, ATRALIANS KEN DAVIS AND ANNE TALVE RECEIVED A LETTER OM THE SAN FRANCIS GAY FREEDOM DAY ANISERS LLG ON PEOPLE OVERSEAS TO STAND UP FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS AND MEMORATE THE STONEWALL RTS."AS REPRENTATIV OF SAN FRANCIS'S LARGE AND ACTIVE GAY MUNY, WE ARE ENURAGG WORLDWI ACTIVI FOR GAY RIGHTS JUNE 25TH AND THE WEEK BEFORE ORR TO PRENT THE LARGT AND MOST UNIFIED SHOW OF SUPPORT HISTORY," THE LETTER READ.KEN DAVIS SYDNEY'S TAYLOR SQUARE THIS WEEK. SOURCE: EMMA LAWSON/SBS NEWSIT WAS ONE ELEMENT THAT LED TO THE FIRST MARDI GRAS BEG HELD SYDNEY LATER THAT YEAR."WE CID TO HAVE A FOM AND THEN A MARCH, AND WE CID TO HAVE A NIGHT TIME PARTY TAYLOR SQUARE, A CELEBRATN, NOT A MONSTRATN," MR DAVIS - WHO BEME ONE OF THE ORIGAL 78ERS - TOLD SBS NEWS.BUT THE EVENTS WERE MET WH POLICE VLENCE AND ARRTS.POLICE NONT PARTICIPANTS. SOURCE: SUPPLIED"THE UNEXPECTED POLICE ATTACK ON THAT MARDI GRAS WAS VERY TRMATIC, SO WE REALISED ON THE NTH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL AMERI, WE WERE A SIAR SORT OF NFLICT WH POLICE POWER SYDNEY," MR DAVIS SAID."THE FACT WE WERE ATTACKED ... A VERY UNPROVOKED AND VLENT ATTACK REALLY JT GALVANISED AND THEN WE REALISED THAT WE HAD THIS ECHO OF THE STONEWALL REBELLN."THE FOLLOWG YEAR, UP TO 3,000 PEOPLE MARCHED AN CINT-EE PARA.MARDI GRAS WENT ON TO BEE AN ANNUAL EVENT SYDNEY AND TO THIS DAY RETAS THE SPIR OF BOTH PROTT AND CELEBRATN ACROSS THE UNTRY.SYDNEY IS CURRENTLY BIDDG TO BE THE HOST OF WORLDPRI 2023, AND AFTER THE LEGACY OF STONEWALL, JUNE IS NSIRED AS PRI MONTH AROUND THE WORLD.MEMBERS OF THE TIWI ISLANDS TRANSGENR MUNY AT MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTYIN 2018, NSW POLICE MISSNER MICHAEL FULLER GAVE AN OFFICIAL APOLOGY TO SYDNEY'S 78ERS OF BEHALF OF THE FORCE.AND EARLIER THIS MONTH, NEW YORK CY’S POLICE MISSNER JAM O’NEILL APOLOGISED FOR THE STONEWALL RAID WHICH SPARKED THE ORIGAL RT, SAYG “THE ACTNS TAKEN BY THE NYPD WERE WRONG”.'MORE WORK TO DO ATRALIA'REFLECTG ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL, MR WOTHERSPOON SAID THE EVENTS OF 28 JUNE 1969 NTUE TO HAVE AN IMPACT."[STONEWALL] BUILT MOMENTUM AND GRADUALLY ATTUS CHANGED THE WIR SOCIETY," HE SAID.BUT WHILE PROGRS HAD BEEN SIGNIFINT, HE SAID THERE ARE STILL "BLACK SPOTS" AROUND LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ATRALIA.HE SAID THE UNTRY NEED STRONGER LAWS "WHICH PROTECT LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE OM DISCRIMATN" AND THAT WE NEED TO TAKE MORE "REFUGE WHO ARE FLEEG BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY".THE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT BILL PASS THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV 2017. SOURCE: AAPTHE SENTIMENT WAS ECHOED BY MR DAVIS."WE'VE MA THE EXTRAORDARY GAS, NOW WE N GET MARRIED ... [BUT] I THK NOW 'S IMPORTANT TO NOT BE PLACENT.""I THK 50 YEARS HAS BEEN A BIG CYCLE BUT WE SHOULDN'T ASSUME THAT THE FUTURE IS EASY."REARS SEEKG SUPPORT N FD A LIST OF LGBTIQ+ SERVIC AT ADDNAL REPORTG: AFPSHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 27 JUNE 2019 4:55PMUPDATED 28 JUNE 2019 10:32AMBY EMMA LAWSON, NICK BAKERTAGSATRALIANORTH AMERISHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

50 YEARS ON: HOW THE STONEWALL RTS SPIRED ATRALIA'S LGBTIQ+ MOVEMENTIN 1969, A RT A NEW YORK BAR SPARKED A GLOBAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HALF A CENTURY ON, THOSE VOLVED THE ATRALIAN MPAIGN TELL SBS NEWS WHAT IMPACT HAD.THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK AND SYDNEY MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTY IMAG/AAPIN THE EARLY HOURS OF 28 JUNE 1969, AFTER A WARM NEW YORK NIGHT, A GROUP OF LGBTIQ+ LOLS CID TO STAND UP TO POLICE ABE AT THE CY'S NOW-LEGENDARY STONEWALL INN.THEIR ACTNS WOULD CHANGE THE URSE OF GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD, CLUDG AS FAR AWAY AS ATRALIA.THIS WEEK MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS.PATRONS OF THE STONEWALL INN ON THE NIGHT OF THE 1969 RTS. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGFIGHTG BACKIN LATE 1960S AMERI, HOMOSEXUALY WAS STILL SEEN AS A MENTAL ILLNS AND GAY SEX WAS ILLEGAL EXCEPT ILLOIS.FEW VENU WELED OPENLY GAY AMERINS, AND EXCEPTNS - CLUDG THE MAFIA-N STONEWALL INN NEW YORK'S GREENWICH VILLAGE - OFTEN ATTRACTED THE ATTENTN OF THORI.POLICE RAIDS WERE ED TO EXPOSE THOSE WHO WERE GAY AND MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF MEN WHO CHOSE TO CROSS-DRS. BUT THGS CHANGED WHEN A GROUP OF GAY MEN AND WOMEN, DRAG QUEENS, AND TRANSGENR NEW YORKERS CHOSE TO FIGHT BACK AGAST OFFICERS WHO HAD RAID THE BAR FOR THE SEND TIME THAT WEEK.A CROWD ATTEMPTS TO IMPE POLICE ARRTS OUTSI THE STONEWALL INN GREENWICH VILLAGE 1969. SOURCE: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/GETTY IMAG"THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK," ATRALIAN LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST GARRY WOTHERSPOON TOLD SBS NEWS THIS WEEK.STONEWALL PATRONS REFED TO STAND LE AND HAVE THEIR IDS - AND THEIR BODI - CHECKED BY POLICE.A CROWD GATHERED, SHOUTG BEGAN, AND A SCUFFLE BROKE OUT. POLICE BATONS WERE DRAWN AND VLENT PROTTS AND MONSTRATNS LASTED FOR MORE THAN THREE DAYS. "IT BEME THE SYMBOLIC START OF THE FIGHT FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD. IT WAS LIKE A STONE DROPPED A POND AND S RIPPL SPREAD."THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK. - GARRY WOTHERSPOON, ATRALIAN ACTIVISTMARK SEGAL PARTICIPATED THE RTS. HE TOLD AFP: "IT WAS THE FIRST TIME OUR MUNY IMPRISONED THE POLICE, WHO HAD ALWAYS IMPRISONED BEFORE".POLICE VLENCE NEAR THE STONEWALL INN 1970. SOURCE: AAPA YEAR AFTER THE RTS, JUNE 1970, NEW YORK STAGED S FIRST EVER GAY PRI PARA CELEBRATG THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY.FROM STONEWALL TO SYDNEYBEFORE LONG, THE "RIPPL" OF STONEWALL H ATRALIA, WHERE LGBTIQ+ MOMENTUM HAD BEEN BUILDG, BUT DISCRIMATN REMAED WISPREAD.IN 1970, ATRALIANS CHRISTABEL POLL AND JOHN WARE "ME OUT" THE ATRALIAN NEWSPAPER AND ANNOUNCED THE FORMATN OF CAMP; THE CAMPAIGN AGAST MORAL PERSECUTN.NEW YORK'S STONEWALL INN. SOURCE: AAP"FROM THERE, ACTIVISM STARTED," SAID MR WOTHERSPOON, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF CAMP S EARLY DAYS."CAMP STARTED TO AL WH SEVERAL THGS, SUCH AS THE MEDIL PROFSN WHICH DID AVERSN THERAPY AND PSYCHOSURGERY, TO AL WH THE LAW WHICH CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY, TO AL WH THE CHURCH WHICH REGARD AS SFUL," HE SAID.AN EARLY MARDI GRAS. SOURCE: SUPPLIEDTHEN MARCH 1978, ATRALIANS KEN DAVIS AND ANNE TALVE RECEIVED A LETTER OM THE SAN FRANCIS GAY FREEDOM DAY ANISERS LLG ON PEOPLE OVERSEAS TO STAND UP FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS AND MEMORATE THE STONEWALL RTS."AS REPRENTATIV OF SAN FRANCIS'S LARGE AND ACTIVE GAY MUNY, WE ARE ENURAGG WORLDWI ACTIVI FOR GAY RIGHTS JUNE 25TH AND THE WEEK BEFORE ORR TO PRENT THE LARGT AND MOST UNIFIED SHOW OF SUPPORT HISTORY," THE LETTER READ.KEN DAVIS SYDNEY'S TAYLOR SQUARE THIS WEEK. SOURCE: EMMA LAWSON/SBS NEWSIT WAS ONE ELEMENT THAT LED TO THE FIRST MARDI GRAS BEG HELD SYDNEY LATER THAT YEAR."WE CID TO HAVE A FOM AND THEN A MARCH, AND WE CID TO HAVE A NIGHT TIME PARTY TAYLOR SQUARE, A CELEBRATN, NOT A MONSTRATN," MR DAVIS - WHO BEME ONE OF THE ORIGAL 78ERS - TOLD SBS NEWS.BUT THE EVENTS WERE MET WH POLICE VLENCE AND ARRTS.POLICE NONT PARTICIPANTS. SOURCE: SUPPLIED"THE UNEXPECTED POLICE ATTACK ON THAT MARDI GRAS WAS VERY TRMATIC, SO WE REALISED ON THE NTH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL AMERI, WE WERE A SIAR SORT OF NFLICT WH POLICE POWER SYDNEY," MR DAVIS SAID."THE FACT WE WERE ATTACKED ... A VERY UNPROVOKED AND VLENT ATTACK REALLY JT GALVANISED AND THEN WE REALISED THAT WE HAD THIS ECHO OF THE STONEWALL REBELLN."THE FOLLOWG YEAR, UP TO 3,000 PEOPLE MARCHED AN CINT-EE PARA.MARDI GRAS WENT ON TO BEE AN ANNUAL EVENT SYDNEY AND TO THIS DAY RETAS THE SPIR OF BOTH PROTT AND CELEBRATN ACROSS THE UNTRY.SYDNEY IS CURRENTLY BIDDG TO BE THE HOST OF WORLDPRI 2023, AND AFTER THE LEGACY OF STONEWALL, JUNE IS NSIRED AS PRI MONTH AROUND THE WORLD.MEMBERS OF THE TIWI ISLANDS TRANSGENR MUNY AT MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTYIN 2018, NSW POLICE MISSNER MICHAEL FULLER GAVE AN OFFICIAL APOLOGY TO SYDNEY'S 78ERS OF BEHALF OF THE FORCE.AND EARLIER THIS MONTH, NEW YORK CY’S POLICE MISSNER JAM O’NEILL APOLOGISED FOR THE STONEWALL RAID WHICH SPARKED THE ORIGAL RT, SAYG “THE ACTNS TAKEN BY THE NYPD WERE WRONG”.'MORE WORK TO DO ATRALIA'REFLECTG ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL, MR WOTHERSPOON SAID THE EVENTS OF 28 JUNE 1969 NTUE TO HAVE AN IMPACT."[STONEWALL] BUILT MOMENTUM AND GRADUALLY ATTUS CHANGED THE WIR SOCIETY," HE SAID.BUT WHILE PROGRS HAD BEEN SIGNIFINT, HE SAID THERE ARE STILL "BLACK SPOTS" AROUND LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ATRALIA.HE SAID THE UNTRY NEED STRONGER LAWS "WHICH PROTECT LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE OM DISCRIMATN" AND THAT WE NEED TO TAKE MORE "REFUGE WHO ARE FLEEG BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY".THE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT BILL PASS THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV 2017. SOURCE: AAPTHE SENTIMENT WAS ECHOED BY MR DAVIS."WE'VE MA THE EXTRAORDARY GAS, NOW WE N GET MARRIED ... [BUT] I THK NOW 'S IMPORTANT TO NOT BE PLACENT.""I THK 50 YEARS HAS BEEN A BIG CYCLE BUT WE SHOULDN'T ASSUME THAT THE FUTURE IS EASY."REARS SEEKG SUPPORT N FD A LIST OF LGBTIQ+ SERVIC AT ADDNAL REPORTG: AFPSHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 27 JUNE 2019 4:55PMUPDATED 28 JUNE 2019 10:32AMBY EMMA LAWSON, NICK BAKERTAGSATRALIANORTH AMERISHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

Atralia SurveysLGB Demographics of Atralians scribed themselv as beg gay, lbian or bisexual of Atralians agree trans people serve the same rights and protectns as other Atralians of Atralians agree that young people should be able to accs healthre that supports them to live as their te selv. Current statSce May 1, 1997Legal In 1997 the High Court of Atralia led that Tasmania's anti-gay laws were nsistent wh feral law, and Tasmania (the fal jurisdictn wh ntrary laws) was forced to crimalise by RegnHomosexual activy was ferally crimalized by the Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994, although some lol state laws remaed nsent until marriage Atralia? In this vio om 1977, a gay rights activist speaks about the legislatns that were passed South Atralia and the Atralian Capal Terrory that repealed some of the discrimatory laws that were place until if you n fd out when the amendments were passed and when other Atralian stat and terrori followed of broadst: 1977CopyrightMetadata © Atralian Broadstg Corporatn and Edutn Servic Atralia Ltd 2012 (except where otherwise dited).

In the early hours of 28 June 1969, after a warm New York night, a group of LGBTIQ+ lols cid to stand up to police abe at the cy's now-legendary Stonewall actns would change the urse of gay rights around the world, cludg as far away as week marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts.

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

Source: Getty ImagFightg backIn late 1960s Ameri, homosexualy was still seen as a mental illns and gay sex was illegal except venu weled openly gay Amerins, and exceptns - cludg the Mafia-n Stonewall Inn New York's Greenwich Village - often attracted the attentn of raids were ed to expose those who were gay and make an example of men who chose to cross-drs. Source: AAPA year after the rts, June 1970, New York staged s first ever Gay Pri para celebratg the diversy of the LGBTIQ+ Stonewall to SydneyBefore long, the "rippl" of Stonewall h Atralia, where LGBTIQ+ momentum had been buildg, but discrimatn remaed 1970, Atralians Christabel Poll and John Ware "me out" The Atralian newspaper and announced the formatn of CAMP; the Campaign Agast Moral York's Stonewall Inn.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

"As reprentativ of San Francis's large and active gay muny, we are enuragg worldwi activi for gay rights June 25th and the week before orr to prent the largt and most unified show of support history, " the letter Davis Sydney's Taylor Square this week.

GAY RIGHTS

Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex (LGBTI) people Atralia still experience discrimatn, harassment and hostily many parts of everyday life; public, at work and study, accsg health and other servic and securg proper regnn of their sex official documents. In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.

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

In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women. In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT SUMMARY

Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons. This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat. Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage).

Ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (1993–2011), which had permted gay and lbian dividuals to serve the ary if they did not disclose their sexual orientatn or engage homosexual activy; the repeal effectively end the ban on homosexuals the ary. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.

PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

50 YEARS ON: HOW THE STONEWALL RTS SPIRED ATRALIA'S LGBTIQ+ MOVEMENTIN 1969, A RT A NEW YORK BAR SPARKED A GLOBAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HALF A CENTURY ON, THOSE VOLVED THE ATRALIAN MPAIGN TELL SBS NEWS WHAT IMPACT HAD.THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK AND SYDNEY MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTY IMAG/AAPIN THE EARLY HOURS OF 28 JUNE 1969, AFTER A WARM NEW YORK NIGHT, A GROUP OF LGBTIQ+ LOLS CID TO STAND UP TO POLICE ABE AT THE CY'S NOW-LEGENDARY STONEWALL INN.THEIR ACTNS WOULD CHANGE THE URSE OF GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD, CLUDG AS FAR AWAY AS ATRALIA.THIS WEEK MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS.PATRONS OF THE STONEWALL INN ON THE NIGHT OF THE 1969 RTS. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGFIGHTG BACKIN LATE 1960S AMERI, HOMOSEXUALY WAS STILL SEEN AS A MENTAL ILLNS AND GAY SEX WAS ILLEGAL EXCEPT ILLOIS.FEW VENU WELED OPENLY GAY AMERINS, AND EXCEPTNS - CLUDG THE MAFIA-N STONEWALL INN NEW YORK'S GREENWICH VILLAGE - OFTEN ATTRACTED THE ATTENTN OF THORI.POLICE RAIDS WERE ED TO EXPOSE THOSE WHO WERE GAY AND MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF MEN WHO CHOSE TO CROSS-DRS. BUT THGS CHANGED WHEN A GROUP OF GAY MEN AND WOMEN, DRAG QUEENS, AND TRANSGENR NEW YORKERS CHOSE TO FIGHT BACK AGAST OFFICERS WHO HAD RAID THE BAR FOR THE SEND TIME THAT WEEK.A CROWD ATTEMPTS TO IMPE POLICE ARRTS OUTSI THE STONEWALL INN GREENWICH VILLAGE 1969. SOURCE: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/GETTY IMAG"THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK," ATRALIAN LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST GARRY WOTHERSPOON TOLD SBS NEWS THIS WEEK.STONEWALL PATRONS REFED TO STAND LE AND HAVE THEIR IDS - AND THEIR BODI - CHECKED BY POLICE.A CROWD GATHERED, SHOUTG BEGAN, AND A SCUFFLE BROKE OUT. POLICE BATONS WERE DRAWN AND VLENT PROTTS AND MONSTRATNS LASTED FOR MORE THAN THREE DAYS. "IT BEME THE SYMBOLIC START OF THE FIGHT FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD. IT WAS LIKE A STONE DROPPED A POND AND S RIPPL SPREAD."THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK. - GARRY WOTHERSPOON, ATRALIAN ACTIVISTMARK SEGAL PARTICIPATED THE RTS. HE TOLD AFP: "IT WAS THE FIRST TIME OUR MUNY IMPRISONED THE POLICE, WHO HAD ALWAYS IMPRISONED BEFORE".POLICE VLENCE NEAR THE STONEWALL INN 1970. SOURCE: AAPA YEAR AFTER THE RTS, JUNE 1970, NEW YORK STAGED S FIRST EVER GAY PRI PARA CELEBRATG THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY.FROM STONEWALL TO SYDNEYBEFORE LONG, THE "RIPPL" OF STONEWALL H ATRALIA, WHERE LGBTIQ+ MOMENTUM HAD BEEN BUILDG, BUT DISCRIMATN REMAED WISPREAD.IN 1970, ATRALIANS CHRISTABEL POLL AND JOHN WARE "ME OUT" THE ATRALIAN NEWSPAPER AND ANNOUNCED THE FORMATN OF CAMP; THE CAMPAIGN AGAST MORAL PERSECUTN.NEW YORK'S STONEWALL INN. SOURCE: AAP"FROM THERE, ACTIVISM STARTED," SAID MR WOTHERSPOON, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF CAMP S EARLY DAYS."CAMP STARTED TO AL WH SEVERAL THGS, SUCH AS THE MEDIL PROFSN WHICH DID AVERSN THERAPY AND PSYCHOSURGERY, TO AL WH THE LAW WHICH CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY, TO AL WH THE CHURCH WHICH REGARD AS SFUL," HE SAID.AN EARLY MARDI GRAS. SOURCE: SUPPLIEDTHEN MARCH 1978, ATRALIANS KEN DAVIS AND ANNE TALVE RECEIVED A LETTER OM THE SAN FRANCIS GAY FREEDOM DAY ANISERS LLG ON PEOPLE OVERSEAS TO STAND UP FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS AND MEMORATE THE STONEWALL RTS."AS REPRENTATIV OF SAN FRANCIS'S LARGE AND ACTIVE GAY MUNY, WE ARE ENURAGG WORLDWI ACTIVI FOR GAY RIGHTS JUNE 25TH AND THE WEEK BEFORE ORR TO PRENT THE LARGT AND MOST UNIFIED SHOW OF SUPPORT HISTORY," THE LETTER READ.KEN DAVIS SYDNEY'S TAYLOR SQUARE THIS WEEK. SOURCE: EMMA LAWSON/SBS NEWSIT WAS ONE ELEMENT THAT LED TO THE FIRST MARDI GRAS BEG HELD SYDNEY LATER THAT YEAR."WE CID TO HAVE A FOM AND THEN A MARCH, AND WE CID TO HAVE A NIGHT TIME PARTY TAYLOR SQUARE, A CELEBRATN, NOT A MONSTRATN," MR DAVIS - WHO BEME ONE OF THE ORIGAL 78ERS - TOLD SBS NEWS.BUT THE EVENTS WERE MET WH POLICE VLENCE AND ARRTS.POLICE NONT PARTICIPANTS. SOURCE: SUPPLIED"THE UNEXPECTED POLICE ATTACK ON THAT MARDI GRAS WAS VERY TRMATIC, SO WE REALISED ON THE NTH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL AMERI, WE WERE A SIAR SORT OF NFLICT WH POLICE POWER SYDNEY," MR DAVIS SAID."THE FACT WE WERE ATTACKED ... A VERY UNPROVOKED AND VLENT ATTACK REALLY JT GALVANISED AND THEN WE REALISED THAT WE HAD THIS ECHO OF THE STONEWALL REBELLN."THE FOLLOWG YEAR, UP TO 3,000 PEOPLE MARCHED AN CINT-EE PARA.MARDI GRAS WENT ON TO BEE AN ANNUAL EVENT SYDNEY AND TO THIS DAY RETAS THE SPIR OF BOTH PROTT AND CELEBRATN ACROSS THE UNTRY.SYDNEY IS CURRENTLY BIDDG TO BE THE HOST OF WORLDPRI 2023, AND AFTER THE LEGACY OF STONEWALL, JUNE IS NSIRED AS PRI MONTH AROUND THE WORLD.MEMBERS OF THE TIWI ISLANDS TRANSGENR MUNY AT MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTYIN 2018, NSW POLICE MISSNER MICHAEL FULLER GAVE AN OFFICIAL APOLOGY TO SYDNEY'S 78ERS OF BEHALF OF THE FORCE.AND EARLIER THIS MONTH, NEW YORK CY’S POLICE MISSNER JAM O’NEILL APOLOGISED FOR THE STONEWALL RAID WHICH SPARKED THE ORIGAL RT, SAYG “THE ACTNS TAKEN BY THE NYPD WERE WRONG”.'MORE WORK TO DO ATRALIA'REFLECTG ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL, MR WOTHERSPOON SAID THE EVENTS OF 28 JUNE 1969 NTUE TO HAVE AN IMPACT."[STONEWALL] BUILT MOMENTUM AND GRADUALLY ATTUS CHANGED THE WIR SOCIETY," HE SAID.BUT WHILE PROGRS HAD BEEN SIGNIFINT, HE SAID THERE ARE STILL "BLACK SPOTS" AROUND LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ATRALIA.HE SAID THE UNTRY NEED STRONGER LAWS "WHICH PROTECT LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE OM DISCRIMATN" AND THAT WE NEED TO TAKE MORE "REFUGE WHO ARE FLEEG BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY".THE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT BILL PASS THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV 2017. SOURCE: AAPTHE SENTIMENT WAS ECHOED BY MR DAVIS."WE'VE MA THE EXTRAORDARY GAS, NOW WE N GET MARRIED ... [BUT] I THK NOW 'S IMPORTANT TO NOT BE PLACENT.""I THK 50 YEARS HAS BEEN A BIG CYCLE BUT WE SHOULDN'T ASSUME THAT THE FUTURE IS EASY."REARS SEEKG SUPPORT N FD A LIST OF LGBTIQ+ SERVIC AT ADDNAL REPORTG: AFPSHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 27 JUNE 2019 4:55PMUPDATED 28 JUNE 2019 10:32AMBY EMMA LAWSON, NICK BAKERTAGSATRALIANORTH AMERISHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials. Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event. Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.

In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985. But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.