The Gay Liberatn Movement - Makg History

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• COMG OUT: THE JOURNEY OF ATRALIAN GAY LIBERATN
• ATRALIAN OUTLOOK HOME ATRALIAN OUTLOOK PRI MONTH: LGBTQ RIGHTS THE SPOTLIGHTIN THIS SECTN GO BACK TO ATRALIAN OUTLOOKABOUTPRI MONTH: LGBTQ RIGHTS THE SPOTLIGHT11 JUN 2021BY PROFSOR DENNIS ALTMAN AM FASSAANALYSIS SHAREFACEBOOKTWTERLKEDJUNE MARKS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1969 STONEWALL RTS, WHEN RISTANCE TO A POLICE RAID ON A GAY BAR SPARKED THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEW YORK GAY LIBERATN FRONT. IN ATRALIA THERE IS LTLE AWARENS OF THE HISTORY OF QUEER ADVOCY. PRI MONTH, RATHER LIKE MOTHERS’ AND FATHERS’ DAY, IS A PRODUCT OF AMERIN MERCIALISM. IN THE WTERN WORLD, BS AND POLICIANS ARE QUICK TO E THE CELEBRATN TO PROCLAIM THEIR SUPPORT FOR WHAT IS NOW LLED THE LGBTIQ MUNY. AGA, THIS IS A TERM BASED ON WTERN ASSUMPTNS, AND I PREFER THE ACRONYM SOGI, REFERRG TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR EXPRSN, WHICH IS ED BY THE UNED NATNS HUMAN RIGHT COUNCIL AND BETTER PTUR THE RANGE OF DIVERSY THAT IS VOLVED.PRINT JOE BIN, REGNISG THE MONTH, CLARED THAT HE “WILL NOT RT UNTIL FULL EQUALY FOR LGBTQ+ AMERINS IS FALLY ACHIEVED AND DIFIED TO LAW.” HARD TO IMAGE PRIME MISTER STT MORRISON MAKG THE SAME PLEDGE – THIS IS THE MAN WHO WALKED OUT OF THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV TO AVOID VOTG FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AFTER A MAJORY OF HIS NSTUENTS SUPPORTED . BUT LOL UNIVERSI, LAW FIRMS, AND STATE ERNMENTS WILL UNDOUBTEDLY E THE OPPORTUNY TO ANNOUNCE THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE QUEER MUNY.ALTHOUGH THERE ARE STILL AREAS OF DISCRIMATN, MOST NOTABLY AROUND TRANS* PEOPLE, VERY NSIRABLE STEPS HAVE BEEN MA OVER THE PAST FEW S TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF QUEER PEOPLE ATRALIA. THE SUATN MOST PARTS OF THE WORLD IS VERY DIFFERENT.THE LAST HAS SEEN BOTH AN ASSERTN OF QUEER RIGHTS TERNATNAL FORA AND A RRPONDG BACKLASH OM UNTRI CLUDG RSIA AND MOST AIN AND MLIM STAT. UNFORTUNATELY, FENCE OF SEXUAL AND GENR DIVERSY, WHICH EXISTS MOST SOCIETI OF WHICH WE ARE AWARE, HAS BEE SPEGOATED AS WTERN IMPERIALISM. IN MANY FORMER BRISH LONI, POLIL AND RELIG LEARS FEND LAWS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVUR THE NAME OF TRADNAL VALU, EVEN THOUGH THE LAWS WERE ACTUALLY TRODUCED BY THE LONISERS.IN PARTS OF THE WORLD, GLOBAL ATTENTN TO SOGI ISSU HAS RULTED CREASED PERSECUTN. THIS IS PARTICULARLY EVINT INDONIA, WHERE POLICIANS HAVE CLAIMED “LGBT” REPRENTS ATTACKS ON NATNAL AND FAY VALU. THE HEAD OF INDONIA’S POPULATN AND FAY PLANNG AGENCY NOIJAL LABELLED LGBT CIZENS THE “MA ENEMY OF NATNAL VELOPMENT.” WHILE THERE IS A LARGE AND VISIBLE QUEER MUNY UNTRI SUCH AS THAILAND AND THE PHILIPP, EVEN RICH UNTRI ASIA, SUCH AS SOUTH KOREA AND SGAPORE, REMA HOSTILE TO QUEER RIGHTS. SGAPORE, LIKE MALAYSIA, RETAS THE BRISH-ERA LAWS CRIMALISG HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVUR.THERE ARE ONGOG MPAIGNS TO OVERTURN THE LAWS, MOST NOTABLY SOME CARIBBEAN AND AIN STAT, BUT THE REACTN IS OFTEN HARSH. EARLIER THIS YEAR, 21 PEOPLE WERE ARRTED GHANA AFTER POLICE STORMED A WORKSHOP FOR LGBT+ PEOPLE AND HELD THEM CTODY FOR ALMOST TWO WEEKS. IN MUCH OF THE MIDDLE EAST, THERE HAS BEEN CREASG PERSECUTN OF PEOPLE SEEN AS GAY OR TRANS*.LEGAL CHANG ARE NOT THEMSELV SUFFICIENT. AS MARK GEVISSER WROTE, “SOUTH AI WAS FAMOLY THE FIRST UNTRY THE WORLD TO EXPLICLY OUTLAW DISCRIMATN ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN S NSTUTN ( 1996), AND ONE OF THE FIRST TO PERM SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (2006). WOMEN, TOO, HAVE FULL EQUALY AND PROTECTN UNR THE LAW. YET WE HAVE ONE OF THE HIGHT RAT OF GENR-BASED VLENCE THE WORLD, A SUBSET OF WHICH IS THE ABE OF GENR-NONNFORMG PEOPLE: BUTCH LBIANS WHO ARE SUBJECT TO WHAT IS TERMED ‘PUNIVE RAPE,’ AND FEMME MEN OR TRANS WOMEN WHO ARE BEATEN, RAPED, OR MURRED AT HORRIFYG RAT.”ATRALIA’S RPONSIBILIAS A MEMBER OF THE UNED NATNS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSN BETWEEN 2018 AND 2020, ATRALIA WAS A NSISTENT SUPPORTER OF MOV TO CLU SOGI ISSU AS RE BS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. ATRALIA IS A MEMBER OF THE UNED NATNS LGBTI RE GROUP, -CHAIRED BY ARGENTA AND THE NETHERLANDS, WHICH CLUS 33 MEMBER STAT, PRIMARILY OM EUROPE AND LAT AMERI. IN ASIA, ONLY JAPAN AND NEPAL HAVE BEEN WILLG TO SIGN ON.THERE ARE REAL LIMS TO WHAT OUTSIRS N DO TO SUPPORT QUEER ACTIVISTS AND MUNI UNTRI WHERE POLIL AND RELIG PRSUR MAKE ANY ASSERTN OF RIGHTS VERY DANGERO. THE AMERIN PRACTICE, DISNTUED DURG THE TMP ADMISTRATN, OF FLYG RABOW FLAGS AT EMBASSI TO MARK PRI MONTH RISKS JT RERCG IAS THAT THIS IS NEO-LONIAL PRSURE. AT A LOL LEVEL, ATRALIAN EMBASSI HAVE OFTEN BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE OF QUEER GROUPS, BUT THE ISSUE HAS BEEN SENDARY MOST DISCSNS OF HUMAN RIGHTS GLOBALLY. THE EXCEPTN IS POLICI AROUND HIV, WHERE ATRALIA HAS BEEN A SIGNIFINT PLAYER.ATRALIAN VELOPMENT NGOS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO REGNISE SOGI ISSU, EVEN THOUGH THEY OFTEN WORK UNTRI WHERE PERSECUTN IS GREATT. IN PART THIS IS DUE TO REMARKABLY LTLE TERT THE OUTSI WORLD THE TABLISHED QUEER MUNY ANISATNS ATRALIA WHO HAVE FAILED TO LOBBY POLICIANS AND MEDIA TO RPOND TO GLOBAL NCERNS. HOLDG WORLD PRI SYDNEY 2023 SHOULD LEAD TO A GREATER AWARENS.THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE—OR ARE THOUGHT TO BE—HOMOSEXUAL OR TRANS* FACE PERSECUTN, SOMETIM ATH, HAS REAL IMPLITNS FOR WHOM WE REGNISE AS SERVG POLIL ASYLUM. REFUGEE ADVOCY GROUPS ATRALIA HAVE ACTIVELY SUPPORTED A NUMBER OF APPLITNS FOR ASYLUM, BUT ATRALIA’S RERD GRANTG ASYLUM IS SLOW AND UNPREDICTABLE. IT IS MY HUNCH THAT OTHER UNTRI, NOTABLY CANADA AND SWEN, HAVE BEEN MORE WILLG TO ACKNOWLEDGE SEXUALY AND GENR EXPRSN AS GROUNDS FOR ASYLUM. IN THE AFTERMATH OF COVID-19, WHICH HAS LED TO YET FURTHER RCTNS ATRALIA’S REFUGEE TAKE, THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE FLEEG PERSECUTN SIMPLY FOR THEIR INTI N ONLY CREASE.DENNIS ALTMAN AM FASSA IS A PROFSORIAL FELLOW HUMAN SECURY AT LA TROBE UNIVERSY AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTUTE FOR HUMAN SECURY AT LA TROBE.THIS ARTICLE IS PUBLISHED UNR A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCE AND MAY BE REPUBLISHED WH ATTRIBUTN.RELATED ARTICL LGBTI RIGHTS AIBY TASHE JAKWA14 MAY 2018WHEN TO LGBTI RIGHTS AI, ARGUG AGAST WTERN TERVENTNISM IS A ONT FOR ADVOTG THE MATENANCE OF DISCRIMATORY ANTI-LGBTI LEGISLATN. AHEAD OF THE INTERNATNAL DAY AGAST HOMOPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA AND BIPHOBIA, SHOULD BE ARGUED THAT IS HOMOPHOBIA RATHER THAN HOMOSEXUALY THAT IS UN-AIN. LGBTQ RIGHTS JAPANBY ALEARDO ZANGHELLI01 JULY 2021JAPAN LACKS PREHENSIVE LEGAL PROTECTNS AGAST DISCRIMATN ON THE GROUNDS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY, AS WELL AS SAME-SEX RELATNSHIP REGNN LAWS. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME PROMISG RECENT LEGAL VELOPMENTS, BUT STRATEGI FOR REFORM MIGHT BE EFULLY RENSIRED. WHEN THE STATE KILLS: PERSECUTN OF SEXUAL MORIBY MAI SATO AND CHRISTOPHER ALEXANR17 JUNE 2021IN EARLY 2021, IRANIAN ALI FAZELI MONFARED, WAS ALLEGEDLY BEHEAD BY HIS RELATIV FOR BEG GAY. HIS RELATIV FOUND OUT ABOUT ALI’S SEXUALY BEE HE HAD DISCLOSED HIS “MENTAL ILLNS”—HOMOSEXUALY— ORR TO BE EXEMPT OM PULSORY ARY SERVICE. SIGN UP FOR ATRALIAN OUTLOOK AND AIIA NEWSLETTERS
• GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• REVOLUTN IS FOR US: THE LEFT AND GAY LIBERATN ATRALIA
• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• ARTICL ON GAY LIBERATN
• THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
• OPNSSM: REMEMBERG THE RISE OF SYDNEY'S LGBTI MOVEMENT AMID PROTTS AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISM

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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. 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.

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.

THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

The ph for marriage equaly is gag momentum and recently, the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras has changed s name back to the Sydney Mardi Gras, breakg down the nstcts of the separate ‘Gay’ and ‘Lbian’ to be clive of all members of the queer muny.

The homosexual muny Atralia and abroad (specifilly the US) were subject to tense surveillance by the police force who would patrol beats, such as public bathrooms and parks, arrtg anyone who was spected of, or participatg homosexual activy. The years om 1972 to 1977 saw a few polil and social ws for the gay muny; gay characters were portrayed on TV, such as Don Flayson Number 96 and South Atralia set the bar by beg the first state to crimalise homosexualy 1972 (Tasmania was the last state 1997).

Pri Month: LGBTQ Rights the Spotlight - Atralian Instute of Internatnal Affairs - Atralian Instute of Internatnal Affairs Search Jo Donate About Us Atralian Outlook Natnal Conference Events Stat/Terrori Membership News Publitns Rourc Fd an Expert Youth and Communy Contact Us Follow Facebook Twter YouTube LkedIn Feed Member Log Atralian Outlook Home Atralian Outlook Pri Month: LGBTQ Rights the SpotlightIn this sectn Go back to Atralian OutlookPri Month: LGBTQ Rights the SpotlightBy Profsor Dennis Altman AM FASSAAnalysis June marks the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall rts, when ristance to a police raid on a gay bar sparked the emergence of the New York Gay Liberatn Front. In many former Brish loni, polil and relig lears fend laws agast homosexual behavur the name of tradnal valu, even though the laws were actually troduced by the parts of the world, global attentn to SOGI issu has rulted creased persecutn. The seri begs wh the headle “There are probably 2, 700 homosexuals at Cal”, and go to tail about how police officers have been crackg down on the "homosexual activy" on mp, cludg removg every other door the men’s rtroom, so that would stop people om drillg glory hol the stalls.

COMG OUT: THE JOURNEY OF ATRALIAN GAY LIBERATN

Durg this s- the stunts veloped a list of mands for the Universy which clud: the Universy support the repeal of sodomy laws, the Universy provi facili for the CGE, the Universy give permissn to hold the gay dance as planned, and the Universy enforce the rignatn of John Cox. In addn to the great event that was the dance, the CGE hosted many nscns raisg events the form of symposiums hop of exposg gays to their own opprsn and to te and raise awarens the straight muny about gays, their liftyle, and the acpanyg challeng.

Those who feel themselv to be homosexual or bisexual or who are uncerta about their sexual orientatn n expect sympathetic and nfintial nsiratn om most of the relig unselors and the staff of the Columbia Counsellg Service, as well as om the SHL [Stunt Homophile League] self. It was, therefore, somethg of a shock to most Atralians to read The Atralian newspaper of 10 September 1970 of the formatn of an anisatn, Campaign Agast Moral Persecutn Inrporated (CAMP Inc), dited to removg the stigma that society attached to homosexualy. 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.

ATRALIAN OUTLOOK HOME ATRALIAN OUTLOOK PRI MONTH: LGBTQ RIGHTS THE SPOTLIGHTIN THIS SECTN GO BACK TO ATRALIAN OUTLOOKABOUTPRI MONTH: LGBTQ RIGHTS THE SPOTLIGHT11 JUN 2021BY PROFSOR DENNIS ALTMAN AM FASSAANALYSIS SHAREFACEBOOKTWTERLKEDJUNE MARKS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1969 STONEWALL RTS, WHEN RISTANCE TO A POLICE RAID ON A GAY BAR SPARKED THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEW YORK GAY LIBERATN FRONT. IN ATRALIA THERE IS LTLE AWARENS OF THE HISTORY OF QUEER ADVOCY. PRI MONTH, RATHER LIKE MOTHERS’ AND FATHERS’ DAY, IS A PRODUCT OF AMERIN MERCIALISM. IN THE WTERN WORLD, BS AND POLICIANS ARE QUICK TO E THE CELEBRATN TO PROCLAIM THEIR SUPPORT FOR WHAT IS NOW LLED THE LGBTIQ MUNY. AGA, THIS IS A TERM BASED ON WTERN ASSUMPTNS, AND I PREFER THE ACRONYM SOGI, REFERRG TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR EXPRSN, WHICH IS ED BY THE UNED NATNS HUMAN RIGHT COUNCIL AND BETTER PTUR THE RANGE OF DIVERSY THAT IS VOLVED.PRINT JOE BIN, REGNISG THE MONTH, CLARED THAT HE “WILL NOT RT UNTIL FULL EQUALY FOR LGBTQ+ AMERINS IS FALLY ACHIEVED AND DIFIED TO LAW.” HARD TO IMAGE PRIME MISTER STT MORRISON MAKG THE SAME PLEDGE – THIS IS THE MAN WHO WALKED OUT OF THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV TO AVOID VOTG FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AFTER A MAJORY OF HIS NSTUENTS SUPPORTED . BUT LOL UNIVERSI, LAW FIRMS, AND STATE ERNMENTS WILL UNDOUBTEDLY E THE OPPORTUNY TO ANNOUNCE THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE QUEER MUNY.ALTHOUGH THERE ARE STILL AREAS OF DISCRIMATN, MOST NOTABLY AROUND TRANS* PEOPLE, VERY NSIRABLE STEPS HAVE BEEN MA OVER THE PAST FEW S TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF QUEER PEOPLE ATRALIA. THE SUATN MOST PARTS OF THE WORLD IS VERY DIFFERENT.THE LAST HAS SEEN BOTH AN ASSERTN OF QUEER RIGHTS TERNATNAL FORA AND A RRPONDG BACKLASH OM UNTRI CLUDG RSIA AND MOST AIN AND MLIM STAT. UNFORTUNATELY, FENCE OF SEXUAL AND GENR DIVERSY, WHICH EXISTS MOST SOCIETI OF WHICH WE ARE AWARE, HAS BEE SPEGOATED AS WTERN IMPERIALISM. IN MANY FORMER BRISH LONI, POLIL AND RELIG LEARS FEND LAWS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVUR THE NAME OF TRADNAL VALU, EVEN THOUGH THE LAWS WERE ACTUALLY TRODUCED BY THE LONISERS.IN PARTS OF THE WORLD, GLOBAL ATTENTN TO SOGI ISSU HAS RULTED CREASED PERSECUTN. THIS IS PARTICULARLY EVINT INDONIA, WHERE POLICIANS HAVE CLAIMED “LGBT” REPRENTS ATTACKS ON NATNAL AND FAY VALU. THE HEAD OF INDONIA’S POPULATN AND FAY PLANNG AGENCY NOIJAL LABELLED LGBT CIZENS THE “MA ENEMY OF NATNAL VELOPMENT.” WHILE THERE IS A LARGE AND VISIBLE QUEER MUNY UNTRI SUCH AS THAILAND AND THE PHILIPP, EVEN RICH UNTRI ASIA, SUCH AS SOUTH KOREA AND SGAPORE, REMA HOSTILE TO QUEER RIGHTS. SGAPORE, LIKE MALAYSIA, RETAS THE BRISH-ERA LAWS CRIMALISG HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVUR.THERE ARE ONGOG MPAIGNS TO OVERTURN THE LAWS, MOST NOTABLY SOME CARIBBEAN AND AIN STAT, BUT THE REACTN IS OFTEN HARSH. EARLIER THIS YEAR, 21 PEOPLE WERE ARRTED GHANA AFTER POLICE STORMED A WORKSHOP FOR LGBT+ PEOPLE AND HELD THEM CTODY FOR ALMOST TWO WEEKS. IN MUCH OF THE MIDDLE EAST, THERE HAS BEEN CREASG PERSECUTN OF PEOPLE SEEN AS GAY OR TRANS*.LEGAL CHANG ARE NOT THEMSELV SUFFICIENT. AS MARK GEVISSER WROTE, “SOUTH AI WAS FAMOLY THE FIRST UNTRY THE WORLD TO EXPLICLY OUTLAW DISCRIMATN ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN S NSTUTN ( 1996), AND ONE OF THE FIRST TO PERM SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (2006). WOMEN, TOO, HAVE FULL EQUALY AND PROTECTN UNR THE LAW. YET WE HAVE ONE OF THE HIGHT RAT OF GENR-BASED VLENCE THE WORLD, A SUBSET OF WHICH IS THE ABE OF GENR-NONNFORMG PEOPLE: BUTCH LBIANS WHO ARE SUBJECT TO WHAT IS TERMED ‘PUNIVE RAPE,’ AND FEMME MEN OR TRANS WOMEN WHO ARE BEATEN, RAPED, OR MURRED AT HORRIFYG RAT.”ATRALIA’S RPONSIBILIAS A MEMBER OF THE UNED NATNS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSN BETWEEN 2018 AND 2020, ATRALIA WAS A NSISTENT SUPPORTER OF MOV TO CLU SOGI ISSU AS RE BS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. ATRALIA IS A MEMBER OF THE UNED NATNS LGBTI RE GROUP, -CHAIRED BY ARGENTA AND THE NETHERLANDS, WHICH CLUS 33 MEMBER STAT, PRIMARILY OM EUROPE AND LAT AMERI. IN ASIA, ONLY JAPAN AND NEPAL HAVE BEEN WILLG TO SIGN ON.THERE ARE REAL LIMS TO WHAT OUTSIRS N DO TO SUPPORT QUEER ACTIVISTS AND MUNI UNTRI WHERE POLIL AND RELIG PRSUR MAKE ANY ASSERTN OF RIGHTS VERY DANGERO. THE AMERIN PRACTICE, DISNTUED DURG THE TMP ADMISTRATN, OF FLYG RABOW FLAGS AT EMBASSI TO MARK PRI MONTH RISKS JT RERCG IAS THAT THIS IS NEO-LONIAL PRSURE. AT A LOL LEVEL, ATRALIAN EMBASSI HAVE OFTEN BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE OF QUEER GROUPS, BUT THE ISSUE HAS BEEN SENDARY MOST DISCSNS OF HUMAN RIGHTS GLOBALLY. THE EXCEPTN IS POLICI AROUND HIV, WHERE ATRALIA HAS BEEN A SIGNIFINT PLAYER.ATRALIAN VELOPMENT NGOS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO REGNISE SOGI ISSU, EVEN THOUGH THEY OFTEN WORK UNTRI WHERE PERSECUTN IS GREATT. IN PART THIS IS DUE TO REMARKABLY LTLE TERT THE OUTSI WORLD THE TABLISHED QUEER MUNY ANISATNS ATRALIA WHO HAVE FAILED TO LOBBY POLICIANS AND MEDIA TO RPOND TO GLOBAL NCERNS. HOLDG WORLD PRI SYDNEY 2023 SHOULD LEAD TO A GREATER AWARENS.THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE—OR ARE THOUGHT TO BE—HOMOSEXUAL OR TRANS* FACE PERSECUTN, SOMETIM ATH, HAS REAL IMPLITNS FOR WHOM WE REGNISE AS SERVG POLIL ASYLUM. REFUGEE ADVOCY GROUPS ATRALIA HAVE ACTIVELY SUPPORTED A NUMBER OF APPLITNS FOR ASYLUM, BUT ATRALIA’S RERD GRANTG ASYLUM IS SLOW AND UNPREDICTABLE. IT IS MY HUNCH THAT OTHER UNTRI, NOTABLY CANADA AND SWEN, HAVE BEEN MORE WILLG TO ACKNOWLEDGE SEXUALY AND GENR EXPRSN AS GROUNDS FOR ASYLUM. IN THE AFTERMATH OF COVID-19, WHICH HAS LED TO YET FURTHER RCTNS ATRALIA’S REFUGEE TAKE, THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE FLEEG PERSECUTN SIMPLY FOR THEIR INTI N ONLY CREASE.DENNIS ALTMAN AM FASSA IS A PROFSORIAL FELLOW HUMAN SECURY AT LA TROBE UNIVERSY AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTUTE FOR HUMAN SECURY AT LA TROBE.THIS ARTICLE IS PUBLISHED UNR A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCE AND MAY BE REPUBLISHED WH ATTRIBUTN.RELATED ARTICL LGBTI RIGHTS AIBY TASHE JAKWA14 MAY 2018WHEN TO LGBTI RIGHTS AI, ARGUG AGAST WTERN TERVENTNISM IS A ONT FOR ADVOTG THE MATENANCE OF DISCRIMATORY ANTI-LGBTI LEGISLATN. AHEAD OF THE INTERNATNAL DAY AGAST HOMOPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA AND BIPHOBIA, SHOULD BE ARGUED THAT IS HOMOPHOBIA RATHER THAN HOMOSEXUALY THAT IS UN-AIN. LGBTQ RIGHTS JAPANBY ALEARDO ZANGHELLI01 JULY 2021JAPAN LACKS PREHENSIVE LEGAL PROTECTNS AGAST DISCRIMATN ON THE GROUNDS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY, AS WELL AS SAME-SEX RELATNSHIP REGNN LAWS. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME PROMISG RECENT LEGAL VELOPMENTS, BUT STRATEGI FOR REFORM MIGHT BE EFULLY RENSIRED. WHEN THE STATE KILLS: PERSECUTN OF SEXUAL MORIBY MAI SATO AND CHRISTOPHER ALEXANR17 JUNE 2021IN EARLY 2021, IRANIAN ALI FAZELI MONFARED, WAS ALLEGEDLY BEHEAD BY HIS RELATIV FOR BEG GAY. HIS RELATIV FOUND OUT ABOUT ALI’S SEXUALY BEE HE HAD DISCLOSED HIS “MENTAL ILLNS”—HOMOSEXUALY— ORR TO BE EXEMPT OM PULSORY ARY SERVICE. SIGN UP FOR ATRALIAN OUTLOOK AND AIIA NEWSLETTERS

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.

GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

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. 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.

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. ) The text of the 1973 Sydney report is then analyzed wh regard to s legal and social aspects, s relig aspects, and the attus of the fields of psychology and psychiatry towards the validy of the ia that homosexualy was not an illns to be treated.

” The full texts of the then-current policy on homosexuals the armed forc of Atralia (and a cril mentary on , a “Proposed Amendment to All Atralian Crim Acts to Regulate Crimal Sexual Conduct, ” and two letters to Michael Clohy, secretary of CAMP- New South Wal om the Office of the Prime Mister and the Department of Foreign Affairs addrsg the problems wh the proposal that Atralia make a motn the Uned Natns that the term “sexual orientatn” be add to the Internatnal Covenant on Civil and Polil Rights (which was servg as the basis for a then-drafted human rights bill for Atralia) plete the document. The end wh the appearance 1979 of two documents created by the Gay Task Force Sydney which reflect part the list of remend social reforms listed by CAMP four years earlier, Submissn on the proposed New South Wal child and muny welfare legislatn and the Gay Task Force submissn to Commtee to Exame Teacher Edutn N. 1984 was marked by nveng of the tenth annual Natnal Conference of Lbians & Homosexual Men Brisbane, whose theme was “Common Ground, ” and the appearance of two publitns illtratg the diversy of opn on homosexualy Atralia as the AIDS panmic began to unfold.

REVOLUTN IS FOR US: THE LEFT AND GAY LIBERATN ATRALIA

The first is an assembly part of prevly published articl datg between 1980 and 1984 entled Blatant and Proud: Homosexuals on the Offensive, a reference to a claratn ma at the 1979 Natnal Conference of Lbians & Homosexual Men Melbourne that the summer of 1980 the participants would be “blatant –everywhere. ) After reviewg the then-current posns on homosexualy taken by Atralian activists, opposn to homosexualy is offered on moral grounds as an advisable choice, wh most of the book taken up wh “the nature of the homosexuals’ objectiv and mands. In 1985, the first study on an Atralian gay muny which for many rears the northern hemisphere may have served as an troductn to LGBT life on the other si of the world appeared wrten by a former employee of the New South Wal Anti-Discrimatn Board.

In Flaws In the Social Fabric: Homosexuals and Society Sydney, Denise Thompson prents both two sectns om the 1982 report Discrimatn and Homosexualy (of which she was the prcipal thor) on medil mols of homosexualy and Christian moral posns on the subject.

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

Perhaps her most signifint ntributn to Atralian LGBT wrg li the book’s first sectn, “The Gay Movement” which offers “a brief overview of some of the ma events the history of the gay movement Sydney” ( Thompson 1985: 7) focg on the polil work begun wh the formatn of CAMP July, 1970. “That the first homosexual anizatn Atralia to ‘e out’ publicly, should have lled self ‘mp’ rather than ‘gay’ (the term which was already mon e among those who were fluenced by events the Uned Stat) was …a liberate stance on the part of CAMP Ink’s iators. A genre seen the early post-Stonewall years of the North Amerin gay right movement, llectns of tobgraphi, ma s first appearance the lerature of LGBT Atralia 1986 wh Beg Different: Ne Gay Men Remember, issued Sydney by Hale and Iremonger, eded by Gary Wotherspoon (who would shortly tackle wrg the history of gay men’s liv Sydney).

The thor noted his troductn that, while he was aware of the role lbians had played buildg the muny, “the history of life for lbians Sydney-and ed Atralia-is more properly a part of women’s history, sce what has happened to the lbian muny has far more to do wh the suatn of women our society than has to do wh male homosexualy.

ARTICL ON GAY LIBERATN

) Rears should make a pot to read the troductn on “Sydney’s Gay Subculture and Its History” before begng the ma body of the book, as provis valuable background on the factors volved retrievg and nstctg the gay historil narrative Sydney, New South Wal and Atralia as a whole. Wotherspoon not that “the 1940s is…an important Atralia’s social history; marks the ‘end to unknowg’ about homoeroticism and homosexualy Atralia“ (Wotherspoon 1991: 81) The third chapter on “The Greatt Menace Facg Atralia “ vers the untry’s treatment of homosexuals durg the Cold War era.

THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

The perd om 1960 to 1972, wh s rise of Atralia’s varied untercultur, the emergg gay landsp of Sydney, and the first urt s 1969 which led to the foundg of homosexual law reform groups such as CAMP, is profiled tail the fourth chapter “The Personal Is Polil, ” while the fal three sectns look at the between 1972 and the first s of AIDS Atralia 1983, the natnal impact of AIDS and the effect of AIDS on the relatnship between the gay muny and ernmental bodi. The lengthy troductn by Michael Hurley, “Wrg, the body posive” offers both a discsn of the history of lbian and gay wrg wh Atralia and ntextualiz the body of work Pk Ink to LGBT lerary forms, Atralian lerary culture and publishg, AIDS, and the issu attendant on wrg the polics of sexual difference.

More gay and lbian books were published that one year than the prev seven put together… of the books are g om smaller prs…Unlike overseas, our major publishers ntue to be very wary of anythg that isn’t mastream…Durg the eighti, more of our gay and lbian wrers had their novels published overseas than Atralia… nsumers of Amerin and European gay fictn, we know a lot about where they live. In 1998, Graham Wlllett’s doctoral dissertatn was accepted by the Department of History at the Universy of Melbourne, unr the tle In Our Lifetime: the Gay and Lbian Movement and Atralian Society, 1969-1978, markg the begng of his reer as one of the primary chroniclers of the Atralian LGBT past.

OPNSSM: REMEMBERG THE RISE OF SYDNEY'S LGBTI MOVEMENT AMID PROTTS AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISM

The clu the text of a gay liberatn pamphlet om 1972, a speech given 1981 at a rally support of crimalizg homosexual acts held at a Sydney park, nference papers, a review of Cy of the Pla, and a diverse group of articl om the Atralian gay prs. Phillips eded and ntributed to the send LGBT work to appear 2000 on Atralia, the anthology Atralia’s Homosexual Histori jotly published by the Atralian Centre for Lbian and Gay Rearch Sydney and the Atralian Lbian and Gay Archiv Melbourne.

Its ten articl are a samplg of papers prented at two nferenc held Melbourne 1998 and 1999., They ver the perd om 1863 to the 1980s and expand LGBT history beyond the faiar work of CAMP and activism Queensland and New South Wal the twentieth century to clu such diverse topics as late neteenth century data on policg homosexual behavr Victoria and same-sex marriage Atralia between 1900 and 1940.

Succsive chapters report tail on the formatn of CAMP 1970 (and s terwoven story wh radil polil views and the risg unterculture), strategi and styl of direct activism, and the targetg of law, medice and relign as the three ponents of Atralian society where reform of attus towards homosexuals was most imperative. A tailed discsn of the g of AIDS to Atralia and s attendant anizg is balanced by a chapter on the many ways the gay and lbian muny as realy and ncept was beg created by an array of events as the movement shifted tactics om monstratns to clive events exprsg pri inty, most lorfully exemplified by Sydney’s lavish Mardi Gras celebratn. The pool of LGBT historil wrg expand further 2001 wh the appearance of the anthology Queer Cy: Gay and Lbian Polics Sydney eded by Craig Johnston and Pl Van Reyk, scribed s foreword as analyzg “the succs, limatns and persistence of our activist tradn…the key issu and legal challeng… the past 30 years.