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gay marriage protest sydney

Wh Atralia set for a postal vote over the legalisatn of gay marriage, a crowd of an timated 30,000 people rallied at Sydney town hall before marchg to Circular Quay support of the ‘y’ mpaign

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‘I AM LIVID’: ANGLIN PRCIPALS’ FURY AT EDICT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

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Clockwise: Shore, St Le’s, St Cathere’s and Kg’s Flav Branleone, Jam Brickwood, Wolter Peeters, Dallas KilponenThey were worried about the sglg out of gay marriage the statement, alongsi a pledge to rign if those beliefs Anglin Dce of Sydney ns dozens of schools. New prcipals and board members are required to sign the statement as a ndn of their prcipals, who spoke to the Herald on the ndn of anonymy, were worried about their gay stunts and parents, and felt the sglg out of gay marriage an otherwise general statement of Christian fah was “aggrsive” and “ntrary to the laws of the land” new prcipal of St Cathere’s will have to attt that they believe marriage is between a man and a Dallas KilponenThey are also worried that the move will signifintly crease an already-small pool of potential ndidat for prcipal posns, and promise the qualy of school advertisement for the top job at St Cathere’s School Waverley – which is vant om the end of the year – clud a py of the statement, leavg many the school muny worried that the next head will take the school a more nservative schools have lost potential board members over the issue. [nL4N1LB1TJ]Rally aniser Anthony Wallace om activist group Equal Love said 15, 000 people attend the event, makg one of the largt gay rights ralli Atralian history.

It raed fs and starts all day, but by the time the lights were on, the rout learned and the first float h Oxford St, the clouds had miraculoly cleared over the 39th Sydney Mardi year’s celebratn saw the first float voted to queer Alan-speakers and teachers, a but for the transgenr Indigeno ‘sistagirls’ of the Tiwi Islands, and monstrated yet aga that the night of Mardi Gras is blsed wh a b more weather luck than any world-renowned pri para for Atralia’s gay, lbian, bisexual, tersex, trans and queer muny wound s way through the streets of Sydney wh 184 floats, 12, 000 participants and hundreds of thoands on the last year Mallm Turnbull ma history as the first stg prime mister to attend, this time he stayed away, cg “other matters” terstate.

THOANDS RALLY FOR GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA AHEAD OF VOTE

About half a ln people are expected to le Sydney's streets on Saturday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, the first time the annual para has taken place sce Atralia legalized same-sex marriage. * gay marriage protest sydney *

“I thk ’s a very privileged whe gay or lbian issue – but so much energy has been put to and once we get over wh there are far more important thgs we uld put our energy to. Backed by relig groups, the monstrators marched across the cy to voice their opposn to a bill that aims to ply wh a 2019 urt lg favour of LGBTQ held signs readg "we say no homosexualy" and "protect our children".

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS: '’S MUNY BUT ’S ALSO PROTT'

Gay sex had been banned sce 1965 the socially nservative Ain natn, where offenrs uld face up to seven years prison. SYDNEY (Rters) - About half a ln people are expected to le Sydney’s streets on Saturday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, the first time the annual para has taken place sce Atralia legalized same-sex event started 1978 as a prott march for gay rights and the crimalizatn of homosexualy but has sce grown to a major tourist spectacle featurg leather, sequs, glter, lasers and dance mic.

SYDNEY'S GAY PRI STREET PARA CELEBRAT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, HONORS EARLY ACTIVISTS

It is now Sydney’s biggt street party and a major fol pot for Atralia’s gay and lbian year’s procsn clus 200 floats and groups of street dancers and will be head by Dyk on Bik, a motorcycle superstar Cher will headle the para’s official party, the first sce Atralia December beme the 26th natn to legalize same-sex marriage. Atralians overwhelmgly endorsed legalizg same-sex marriage a postal survey a untry where sodomy laws were still place some stat until as recently as the year’s Mardi Gras will honor the 78ers, a group of people volved the origal prott, which took place on June 24, 1978 as a peaceful march for gay rights that sparked the annual prott was marred by police btaly wh 53 people arrted subsequent have sce apologized for the events of 1978 and now march each year the para alongsi other emergency Pollack, a Mardi Gras volunteer sce 1984, said the para has played a major role changg attus toward the LGBT muny over the s.

“I was volved the gay and lbian unselg service...

You would always hear young gays, and olr gays, and much olr gays say ‘’s OK to e out bee I saw people like me the para enjoyg themselv - and there were spectators’, ” Pollack told Rters.

THE PROTTS THAT BEGAN MARDI GRASIN SYDNEY, ON THE NIGHT OF 24 JUNE, 1978, POLICE CRACKED DOWN ON A MARCH CELEBRATG GAY AND LBIAN SOLIDARY. IT WAS JT THE START OF WHAT WOULD BEE THE WORLD FAMO SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRASBY ANDREW TROUNSON, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE SELECTN TO:THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS IS THE WORLD’S LARGT ANNUAL CELEBRATN OF LGBT+ PEOPLE AND ONE OF ATRALIA’S BIGGT SGLE TOURIST ATTRACTNS. AN TIMATED 300,000 PEOPLE TURNED OUT FOR THE 2018 PARA MARCH, HIGHLIGHTG JT HOW MASTREAM LGBT+ CULTURE HAS BEE HERE. AND ONLY FOUR MONTHS EARLIER MORE THAN 60 PER CENT OF THE UNTRY VOTED SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAWS.LANCE DAY AND FELLOW 78ERS DANCE DURG PREPARATNS FOR THE 2018 MARDI GRAS. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGBUT FOR PROFSOR VERY BURGMANN, ONE OF ATRALIA’S LEADG POLIL SCIENTISTS AND AN EXPERT ON PROTT MOVEMENTS, BEG THIS YEAR’S PARA WAS NOTHG LS THAN SURREAL. ON 24 JUNE 1978, SHE HAD BEEN PART OF THE FIRST MARDI GRAS - A NIGHT TIME STREET PROTT-E PARTY SUPPORTG GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS ALONG SYDNEY’S INIC OXFORD STREET. ON THAT NIGHT, STEAD OF CHEERS, BALLOONS AND SEQUS, THE MARCHERS WERE MET BY A VLENT POLICE CRACKDOWN AS PROTTORS WERE GRABBED, BEATEN AND THROWN GAOL, LEAVG MANY TRMATISED FOR YEARS AFTERWARDS.BACK THEN, HOMOSEXUALY WAS ILLEGAL NEW SOUTH WAL AND MONISED AS IMMORAL BY SOME OR NSIRED AN ILLNS BY OTHERS.WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTSREAD MORE“I REMEMBER BEG ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYG,” SAYS PROFSOR BURGMANN, WHO BEME THE FIRST FEMALE PROFSOR OF POLIL SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE 2003 AND IS NOW AN HONORARY PROFSORIAL FELLOW THE ESCHOLARSHIP REARCH CENTRE. “THE CHURCH WAS SAYG WAS A S, THE MEDIL PROFSN WAS SAYG WAS AN ILLNS AND THE STATE WAS SAYG WAS A CRIME. BUT THE OVER-REACTN BY THE POLICE STILL UGHT ALL BY SURPRISE.”PROFSOR BURGMANN WAS JT 25 AT THE TIME AND ACTIVE SOCIALIST POLICS AND PROTT. SHE WAS THERE WH GAY AND LBIAN RAS TO MONSTRATE SOLIDARY WH ANOTHER PROGRSIVE E.“I DON’T RELL UNPLEASANTNS OM THE PUBLIC WATCHG. WE WERE MARCHG AT THE BACK AND WORD ME DOWN TO THAT THE POLICE HAD GONE BERSERK UP ONT, AND THAT’S WHEN WE REALISED THAT SOMETHG SER WAS HAPPENG. WE LKED ARMS AND STAYED TOGETHER FOR SAFETY. BUT WE GOT OFF LIGHTLY. IT WAS THE GAY AND LBIAN ACTIVISTS AT THE ONT WHO GOT HAMMERED.”IN ALL 53 PEOPLE WERE ARRTED, AND THE SYDNEY MORNG HERALD NEWSPAPER WOULD LATER NAME THEN ALL, CLUDG THEIR OCCUPATNS AND THEIR ADDRS, EFFECTIVELY “OUTG” SOME.IN HER 1993 BOOK POWER AND PROTT, PROFSOR BURGMANN WR THAT THE MORE RADIL GAY AND LBIAN ACTIVISM OM THE EARLY 1970S, WHICH PROMPTED THE POLICE VLENCE 1978, WAS NOHELS PIVOTAL THE MOVEMENT’S ULTIMATE SUCCS CHANGG IAS AND LEGISLATN. RADILISM, SHE SAYS, IS A CRIL GREDIENT FOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS DATG BACK TO AT LEAST THE SUFAGETT BRA THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.INSTEAD OF CHEERG CROWDS, PROTTORS 1978 WERE MET WH A VLENT POLICE CRACKDOWN. PICTURE: GETTY IMAG“IN THE 1970S PROBABLY THE MAJORY OF PEOPLE WERE HOMOPHOBIC, TO VARYG GRE. BEG HOMSEXUAL WAS SEEN AS WRONG SOME WAY. THAT WAS WHY WAS IMPORTANT FOR THE MOVEMENT TO SHIFT OM NOT JT SAYG THAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS OK AND SHOULD NOT BE ILLEGAL, BUT TO STAND UP AND BE PROUD AND MAND PLETE ACCEPTANCE,” SHE SAYS.“THE GAY PRI MOVEMENT OM 1971 WAS SAYG BEG GAY OR LBIAN IS GOOD, AND THAT SHIFT WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE PEOPLE THE MASTREAM START THKG THAT PERHAPS HOMOSEXUALY WASN’T BAD.“POLIL SCIENTISTS LL THE RADIL FLANK EFFECT, WHICH IS THAT YOU N CHANGE MASTREAM ATTUS AND SECURE MORATE REFORMS BY MANDG MUCH MORE, BY TAKG AN EXTREMIST POSN THAT MOST PEOPLE WON’T AGREE WH BUT WHICH NOHELS HELPS TO SHIFT ATTUS BEE THE MORATE REFORM POSN EMERG AS THE SENSIBLE MIDDLE GROUND.”THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHTREAD MORESHE SAYS THE “RADIL FLANK” HAS BEEN CRIL TO MANY MAJOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.“THE OPPOSN TO THE VIETNAM WAR HAD RADILS TYPIFYG THE US AS AN IMPERIALIST AGGRSOR AND SUPPORTG THE VIET CONG, SO THE MAJORY OF PEOPLE AT LAST WERE PERSUAD NSCRIPTN FOR THIS NTENT WAR WAS WRONG, AND THE US CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, THE BLACK PANTHERS WERE A MORE RADIL UNTER POT TO MART LUTHER KG JR, WHO THEREFORE BEME A SATLY FIGURE STANDG UP AGAST RACIAL TOLERANCE AND JTICE.“A MOVEMENT BENEFS OM HAVG A RADIL FLANK BUT WORKS BT IF THERE IS ALSO A STRONG MIDDLE GROUND OF PEOPLE WHO N BEE FAVOURED BY THOSE POWER ANX TO RCE THE THREAT OM THE RADILS,” SAYS PROFSOR BURGMANN.“WOMEN’S ADVISERS AND OTHER FEMOCRATS ATRALIA ACHIEVED HEAPS, BUT THEY GOT THEIR APPOTMENTS THE RRIDORS OF POWER BEE OF HOW ANGRY THE RADIL WOMEN’S LIBERATN MOVEMENT HAD BEE THE 1970S AND HOW MUCH THE ‘PATRIARCHY’ FELT ALARMED BY THIS RADILISM.“THE GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAD THE GAY PRI PEOPLE WHO ARGUED ‘GAY IS GOOD’ AND WERE PREPARED TO THROW EGGS AT PSYCHIATRISTS WHO ADVOTED ‘AVERSN THERAPY’ OR HECKLE FUNDAMENTALIST NSERVATIVE RELIG TYP LIKE REVEREND FRED NILE. THE PROTT TOOK PLACE ON A NIGHT JUNE, THE MARDI GRAS’ DATE HAS SCE BEEN MOVED TO MARCH. PICTURE: GETTY IMAG“BUT THERE WERE ALSO MORE MORATE LAW REFORM ASSOCIATNS AND UNSELLG SERVIC THAT WERE LOBBYG ERNMENTS TO CRIMALISE AND THEN OUTLAW DISCRIMATN. IT WAS THE GAY PRI RADILS WHO ENABLED THE MORAT TO SUCCEED, BEE THE MORATE LAW REFORMERS ME TO BE SEEN AS THE VOICE OF PROMISE AND REASON.”LOOKG TO THE FUTURE SHE N SEE THE TRANSGENR MOVEMENT GAG TRACTN AS WELL AS THE MOVEMENT TARGETG MALE VLENCE AGAST WOMEN. ONLY THIS MONTH THE RAPE AND MURR OF EURYDICE DIXON MELBOURNE GALVANISED 10,000 PEOPLE TO ATTEND A VIGIL AT THE MURR SE.“AT LAST WHEN SOMETHG HORRIFIC LIKE THIS HAPPENS EVEN THE POLICE, AND CERTALY THE SMART POLICIANS, REALISE THEY N’T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF BLAMG THE VICTIM AND JT TELLG WOMEN THEY NEED TO PROTECT THEMSELV, BUT ARE NOW TALKG ABOUT HOW SOCIETY HAS TO SIST THAT MEN STOP BEHAVG BADLY.”THE PROBLEM OF A SAME SEX MARRIAGE EXEMPTN FOR CIVIL CELEBRANTSREAD MOREAND GIVEN HOW FAR SOCIETY HAS E ON GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS, SHE SAYS SHE IS OPTIMISTIC THAT PROGRSIVE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS N NTUE TO MAKE GROUND. ON THAT LD EVENG JUNE, PROFSOR BURGMANN SAYS SHE SIMPLY ULDN’T HAVE IMAGED AN ATRALIA THAT WOULD VOTE FAVOUR OF SAME SEX MARRIAGE.“IT IS ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDARY CHANG ATTUS AND LEGISLATN THAT I HAVE EVER WNSED. IT IS A FANTASTIC ACHIEVEMENT.”THAT VLENTLY REPRSED PROTT IS NOW MEMORATED EVERY MARDI GRAS, THOUGH THANKFULLY FOR THOSE THE SKIMPY OUTFS, HAS BEEN MOVED TO WARMER MARCH.PROFSOR BURGMANN WH DR GRAHAM WILLETT LAST YEAR PLETED A PROJECT TO DIGISE OVER 200 HISTORIL DOCUMENTS OM THE GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS GOG BACK TO 1969 AND MA THEM ACCSIBLE ON THE WEBSE REASON REVOLT: SOURCE DOCUMENTS OF ATRALIAN RADILISM, HOSTED BY THE ESCHOLARSHIP REARCH CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE. THE PROJECT WAS FUND BY THE ATRALIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV AND UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE. BANNER IMAGE: FAIRFAX MEDIAFIRST PUBLISHED ON 22 JUNE 2018 HUMANILGBTIQA+SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRASPROTT MOVEMENTSRADILISMSOCIAL CHANGESTART THE NVERSATN ON FACEBOOKLOADG NVERSATN...SORRY, SOMETHG PREVENTED THE FACEBOOK MENTS FEED OM LOADG. HUMANIFEATUREDPROFSOR VERY BURGMANNHONORARY PROFSORIAL FELLOW; DIRECTOR, REASON REVOLT, ESCHOLARSHIP REARCH CENTRE, 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.”THE PROTTS THAT BEGAN MARDI GRAS

“It was Mardi Gras that ma OK to be gay and lbian and bisexual and transgenr. Organised by Communy Actn Agast Homophobia (CAAH), the rally was endorsed by 15 groups, cludg Amnty Internatnal's Gay Network.

A month earlier, at least 800 people had attend a siar prott rally anised by the Gay and Lbian Rights Lobby rally. " She said that makg submissns to the quiry was the bt way to "flect the homophobic agenda" of the Howard ernment, rather than "fight on [John Howard's] terra when there are so many more important battl to be had". Tasmanian gay rights advote Rodney Croome said: "The Howard ernment has a long rerd of beatg up mory issu to threats to middle Atralia and then prentg self as the only solutn to the threats.

Now 's homosexuals and marriage. The rally marched through the streets of Sydney to St Mary's Cathedral, home of homophobe Archbishop Gee Pell, where they were addrsed by Alex Day, om the Canterbury-Bankstown Gay and Lbian Group and Le Gahan, om the newly formed Atralian Marriage Equaly group.

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