Michael Kirby: 'There will be no U-Turns', Gay Gam VI, Sydney - 2002 — Speakola

Contents:

• GAY GAM 2002
• MICHAEL KIRBY: 'THERE WILL BE NO U-TURNS', GAY GAM VI, SYDNEY - 2002
• SYDNEY GAY GAM 2002 [ELECTRONIC ROURCE]

GAY GAM 2002

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2 November, 2002, Openg Ceremony of Gay Gam VI, Stadium Atralia, SydneyUnr different stars, at the begng of a new lennium, an old land and a young natn, we jo together the hope and nvictn that the future will be kr and more jt than the a time when there is so much fear and danger, anger and stctn, this event reprents an alternative visn stgglg for the soul of humany. And as for gays, lbians and other sexual mori, they were an abomatn.

MICHAEL KIRBY: 'THERE WILL BE NO U-TURNS', GAY GAM VI, SYDNEY - 2002

There will be no did my partner Johan and I thk, thirty years ago, as we danced the night away at the Purple Onn, ls than a e om this place, that we would be at the openg of a Gay Gam wh the Queen's Reprentative and all of you to bear wns to such a social revolutn.

SYDNEY GAY GAM 2002 [ELECTRONIC ROURCE]

So here we are tonight, men and women, digeno and newers, black and whe, Atralians and visors, relig and atheist, young and not so young, straight and gay - is put bt by Corey Czok, an Atralian basketballer the Gam:"It's good to be able to throw out the stereotyp - we're not all sissi, we don't all look the same and we're not all pretty!

They took Atralia to the Uned Natns to get rid of the last crimal laws agast gay men Tasmania. I thk of Tom Wadll, the spired founr of the Gay Gam. I thk of Greg Louganis, twice Olympic gold medallist, who me out as gay and HIV posive and said that was the Gay Gam that embolned him to tell as was.