Thoands rally for gay marriage Atralia ahead of vote | Rters

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• FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
• WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTSIT IS LIKELY THE MPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY HAS NTRIBUTED TO ATRALIANS BEG MORE PROGRSIVE, AS SHOWN THIS YEAR’S HILDA SURVEYBY DR HANNAH MCCANN, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE SELECTN TO:THE 2017 HOEHOLD, INE AND LABOUR DYNAMICS ATRALIA (HILDA) SURVEY SHOWS THAT, SCE 2005, ATTUS TOWARD MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN HAVE BEE MORE PROGRSIVE.ONE OF THE BIGGT CHANG NCERNS ATTUS TOWARD THE RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUAL UPL. A PARISON OF ATTUS 2005 VERS 2015 SHOWS THAT BOTH MEN AND WOMEN ARE NOW MORE LIKELY TO AGREE WH THE STATEMENT: “HOMOSEXUAL UPL SHOULD HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS HETEROSEXUAL UPL DO.’’ WH SRG RANGG OM 1 (STRONG DISAGREEMENT) TO 7 (STRONG AGREEMENT), MEN’S ATTUS HAVE SHIFTED OM 3.3 (2005) TO 4.8 (2015), AND WOMEN’S ATTUS OM 4.0 (2005) TO 5.3 (2015). THE RULTS ALSO SHOW WE ARE NOW MORE POSIVE ABOUT UNMARRIED UPL LIVG TOGETHER AND WOMEN RAISG CHILDREN AS SGLE PARENTS.THE 2017 HILDA SURVEY POTS TO A SHIFT TOWARDS MORE PROGRSIVE VALU AMONG ATRALIANS. ANIMATN: LUCY FAHEY / VOICEOVER: CHRIS HATZISBUT WHY HAS A SHIFT TOWARD LS TRADNAL VIEWPOTS OCCURRED WHEN NSERVATIVE AND RIGHT-WG POLIL GROUPS SEEM TO BE GROWG ACROSS THE WORLD? WHILE IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIVELY EXPLA BROAD ATTUDAL SHIFTS, A FEW FACTORS N HELP MAKE SENSE OF THEM.ALTHOUGH IS UNCLEAR WHETHER PARTICIPANTS TERPRETED THE QUTN AS DIRECTLY RELATED TO GAY MARRIAGE, WE KNOW THAT TERNATNAL MPAIGNS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY HAVE BROUGHT HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS TO THE FOREONT OF PUBLIC BATE. ATRALIA'S GENERATNAL WEALTH DIVI IS BGREAD MOREA STAED MPAIGNIN 1976 THE HISTORY OF SEXUALY VOLUME 1, MICHEL FOUULT FAMOLY ARGUED THAT IS THE PROHIBN OF SEXUALY THAT PARADOXILLY CREAS DISCSN OF THE TOPIC. ALTHOUGH MARRIAGE EQUALY HAS NOT E TO PASS ATRALIA, ENDLS DISCSN HAS BEEN GENERATED ON THE SUBJECT, NOT LEAST BEE A STAED MPAIGN AROSE THE WAKE OF THE OVERT BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TRODUCED BY FORMER PRIME MISTER JOHN HOWARD.IN RPONSE TO HOWARD’S CHANG TO THE MARRIAGE ACT 2004, WHICH NOW SE MARRIAGE FED AS ‘THE UNN OF A MAN AND A WOMAN TO THE EXCLN OF ALL OTHERS’, THE ATRALIAN MARRIAGE EQUALY MPAIGN GROUP FORMED. SCE THEN THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN HEATED BAT PARLIAMENT AND THE MEDIA, SEVERAL PARLIAMENTARY QUIRI, THOANDS OF PEOPLE PROTTG THE STREETS, ONLE PETNS AND THE FORMATN OF NUMERO LOBBYG AND MPAIGN GROUPS. SCE THE HOWARD GOVERNMENT’S CHANG TO THE MARRIAGE ACT 2004, WHICH FED MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, THERE HAS BEEN A STAED MPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY ATRALIA. PICTURE: LEVI SNRS/UNSPLASHIN 2013 THE ATRALIAN CAPAL TERRORY LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY BRIEFLY PASSED A MARRIAGE EQUALY LG THAT SAW 31 UPL MARRY, ONLY TO BE OVERTURNED BY THE FERAL GOVERNMENT WH A WEEK. FOR THE LOVE OF THE PUNTREAD MOREWH MANY UNTRI LEGALISG MARRIAGE EQUALY – CLUDG CANADA (2005), NEW ZEALAND (2013) AND THE UNED STAT (2015) – THE NSENS AMONG MANY SEEMS TO BE THAT, SPE THE GOVERNMENT’S REFAL, MARRIAGE EQUALY ATRALIA IS EVABLE. NOTABLY THERE HAS BEEN SOME BATE WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER (LGBTQ) MUNI ABOUT WHETHER MARRIAGE EQUALY OUGHT TO BE CENTRAL TO THEIR ACTIVISM. HOWEVER, EVEN THIS BATE REVEALS THE MPAIGN HAS LED TO GREATER ATTENTN ON THE RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUAL UPL.GAY UPL ON THE RISETHE NUMBER OF ATRALIANS WHO REPORT INTIFYG AS PART OF A GAY OR LBIAN UPLE IS ALSO CREASG, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT ALSO BE RELATED TO THE EQUAL MARRIAGE BATE. THE 2016 CENS DATA REVEALED A HUGE 42 PER CENT RISE UPL INTIFYG AS SAME-SEX SCE 2011. GENR THEORIST JUDH BUTLER HAS ARGUED THAT GREATER SOCIAL REGNN OF LGBTQ ISSU OPENS UP CULTURAL SPACE FOR MORE PEOPLE TO OPENLY INTIFY AS LGBTQ. IN TURN, THIS NTRIBUT TO MORE CULTURAL VISIBILY, BE THAT MASTREAM MEDIA OR TERPERSONAL NTEXTS, AND MORE SPACE FOR LGBTQ INTIFITN. MORE ATRALIANS ARE INTIFYG AS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR OR QUEER. PICTURE: TOM THE PHOTOGRAPHER/UNSPLASHWHILE A POSIVE CHANGE DISURSE AROUND THE RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUALS DON’T ‘MAKE’ PEOPLE GAY OR LBIAN, DO ALLOW GREATER ROOM FOR PEOPLE TO INTIFY THE WAYS. THIS MAY MEAN THAT, GENERAL, DIVIDUALS ARE NOW MORE LIKELY TO KNOW SOMEONE WHO INTIFI AS GAY OR LBIAN THEIR FAY OR SOCIAL WORK, WHICH ULD BE FLUENCG ATTUS TOWARD THE QUTN OF HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS. INED GIVEN THE RERCG NATURE OF GREATER LGBTQ REGNN, THIS MAY HELP TO EXPLA THE STEADY UPWARD TREND RULTS OVER TIME. WHY PARLIAMENT SHOULD CI ON SAME SEX MARRIAGEREAD MOREAS GAYLE RUB INTIFIED HER FAMO SAY THKG SEX, FIRST PUBLISHED 1984, ATTUS TOWARD UNMARRIED UPL AND GAY AND LBIAN UPL THE USA ARE AN AREA OF NTTATN. SHE ARGUED THAT RELATNSHIPS AND PARTICULAR SEXUAL ACTS EXIST WH A HIERARCHY – WH SOME ARRANGEMENTS AND ACTS SEEN AS MORE ACCEPTABLE THAN OTHERS. THE CHANGE TOWARD MORE PROGRSIVE ATTUS HIGHLIGHTED BY THE HILDA SURVEY DATA SUGGTS THAT PERHAPS THE MPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY, AND TURN THE GREATER NUMBERS OF PEOPLE INTIFYG AS PART OF GAY AND LBIAN UPL, MIGHT BE HAVG SOME KD OF IMPACT. HOWEVER, WHAT THE HILDA SURVEY DO NOT REVEAL IS WHETHER ATTUS TOWARD SGLE HOMOSEXUAL PEOPLE, PEOPLE POLYAMORO RELATNSHIPS, OR THOSE WHO INTIFY ELSEWHERE ON THE LGBTQ SPECTM ARE ALSO CHANGG FOR THE BETTER. PERHAPS THE LSON HERE IS THAT IF MPAIGNS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE MAKE A REAL IMPACT ON ATTUS, THEN WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THE MOVEMENTS REGNISE A DIVERSY OF INTI. WHOUT THIS, THE RISK IS THAT NEW HIERARCHI OF ACCEPTABILY WILL FORM THE WAKE OF OTHER SIGNIFINT GAS. BANNER IMAGE: GETTY IMAGFIRST PUBLISHED ON 1 AUGT 2017 INSI BSSAME SEX MARRIAGE GAY RIGHTSLGBTIQA+HILDAHILDA 2017START THE NVERSATN ON FACEBOOKLOADG NVERSATN...SORRY, SOMETHG PREVENTED THE FACEBOOK MENTS FEED OM LOADG. INSI BSFEATUREDDR HANNAH MCCANNSCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND POLIL SCIENC, FACULTY OF ARTS, 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.”WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTS
• UNRSTANDG THE DIVERSY OF ATRALIA’S LGBTQI+ MUNYTO UNRSTAND THE ISSU THAT IMPACT PEOPLE WH OUR LGBTQI+ MUNY, MANY OF NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR OWN POSN OF PRIVILEGEBY LISA NEEDHAM, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE SELECTN TO:IN DECEMBER 2017, AFTER A LONG AND GHT PROCS, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BEME LEGAL ATRALIA. IT WAS A TIME TO CELEBRATE. MARRIAGE EQUALY LEGISLATN REMOVED ONE OF THE LONGSTANDG BARRIERS THAT HAD PREVENTED SAME-SEX UPL OM FULLY PARTICIPATG WH SOCIETY.MARRIAGE EQUALY IS ONLY PART OF THE NVERSATN TO UNRSTAND THE BARRIERS THAT STILL EXIST FOR LGBTQI+ PEOPLE. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGHOWEVER, MARRIAGE EQUALY IS ONLY PART OF THE NVERSATN. IT DON’T SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS OR ERADITE SEXUAL RACISM; DON’T ADDRS THE CREASED LEVELS OF POVERTY WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY OR MEAN THAT ANTI-TRANS DISURSE DISAPPEARS. SO, HOW N WE BEG TO ADDRS SOME OF THE ONGOG ISSU?DR CLAIRE MAREE IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFSOR AND REAR AT THE ASIA INSTUTE. HER REARCH EXAM THE WAYS WHICH SEXUALY AND GENR INTY IMPACT ON PEOPLE’S SENSE OF BELONGG. MULTIPLE JEOPARDY: COVID-19 AND INDIGENO LGBTIQ+ LIVREAD MOREDR MAREE SAYS THAT BEFORE WE N START TO ADDRS THE ISSU THAT IMPACT ON PEOPLE WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY WE NEED TO BETTER UNRSTAND THE BARRIERS THAT STILL EXIST FOR PEOPLE. AND ORR TO DO THIS, SHE SAYS ’S IMPORTANT THAT WE ACKNOWLEDGE OUR OWN POSN OF PRIVILEGE.“NOT BEG AWARE OF STGGL OM A VERY PRIVILEGED POSN OF NOT HAVG TO BE AWARE OF THOSE STGGL,” SHE SAYS.“IF YOU N BEG TO UNPACK YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE THEN I THK LEADS YOU TO VELOPG A GREATER UNRSTANDG.” IT’S ALSO IMPORTANT TO REGNISE THAT THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT AFFECT PEOPLE’S SENSE OF INTY AND BELONGG. A PERSON’S ETHNICY, ENOMIC STAT AND MOBILY ALL PLAY A SIGNIFINT PART FLUENCG HOW THEY ARE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE SOCIETY. THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT AFFECT PEOPLE’S SENSE OF INTY AND BELONGG. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGTHE POVERTY BARRIERONE ISSUE THAT NTU TO DISPROPORTNATELY AFFECT THE LGBTQI+ MUNY IS POVERTY. AND DR MAREE SAYS THERE’S A MULTU OF REASONS WHY WE NTUE TO SEE CREASED LEVELS OF ENOMIC HARDSHIP.“THE POVERTY ISSUE IS TIED TO THE HISTORIL TRAJECTORY OF WHERE, FOR EXAMPLE TRANS PEOPLE, WERE AND ARE ABLE TO WORK, AND HOW AND WHERE THEY N FEEL SAFE AND ABLE TO WORK. THE PROTTS THAT BEGAN MARDI GRASREAD MORE“IT ALSO TI TO TN, TO WHERE YOUTH FEEL THEY ARE ABLE TO ACCS TN AND FEEL FORTABLE AND ABLE TO EXPRS THEMSELV WHOUT FEAR OF DISCRIMATN OR VLENCE SCHOOLS,” SAYS DR MAREE.AND THE FEAR OF DISCRIMATN ISN’T JT NFED TO STUTNAL SETTGS. MANY YOUNG PEOPLE WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY ALSO FACE DISCRIMATN OR VLENCE WH THE HOME AND, SOME S, THEY N BE LEFT WH NO CHOICE BUT TO LEAVE THEIR HOME.“IT ALSO TAPS TO THE HOME, WHETHER YOUTH ARE ABLE TO REMA THE HOME OR WHETHER THEY ARE FACED WH TERPERSONAL RELATNSHIPS THAT BREAK DOWN ONCE THEY DISCLOSE ANY NON-NORMATIVE SEXUALY OR GENR INTY”.MANY YOUNG PEOPLE WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY ALSO FACE DISCRIMATN AT SCHOOL OR HOME. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGWHETHER ’S FEAR OF DISCRIMATN THE CLASSROOM, RELATNSHIP BREAKDOWN OR WHERE SOMEONE FEELS SAFE TO WORK, THE ARE VERY REAL BARRIERS THAT NTUE TO PREVENT PEOPLE OM REACHG THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AND PERPETUATE POVERTY. UNRSTANDG SEXUAL RACISMTHERE ARE ALSO SOME DIFFICULT NVERSATNS THAT NEED TO BE HAD WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY ON ISSU SUCH AS SEXUAL RACISM. WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTSREAD MOREWH ONE EVERY 10 ATRALIANS HAVG BEEN BORN ASIA, DR MAREE SAYS THAT WE HAVE TO START REGNISG AND ADDRSG THE CULTURAL STEREOTYP THAT PERVA SOCIETY, CLUDG WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY.“SO WE’VE GOT THE STEREOTYPE OF THE REALLY NERDY ASIAN GUY AND THE STEREOTYPE OF THE HYPERSEXUAL ASIAN WOMAN, OR THE DRAGON LADY AND THOSE STEREOTYP FUNCTN REALLY PERVERSE AND NTRADICTORY WAYS,” DR MAREE SAYS.PART OF THE PLEXY OF ADDRSG ISSU AFFECTG THE LGBTQI+ MUNY IS THAT INTY TEGORI ARE ALL ABOUT CLN AND EXCLN – WHO BELONGS TO THIS MUNY AND WHO DO NOT. AND BEE OF THIS, DR MAREE SAYS, WE HAVE TO NSTANTLY QUTN OURSELV.WE HAVE TO START REGNISG THE CULTURAL STEREOTYP THAT PERVA SOCIETY. PICTURE: THE GENR SPECTM COLLECTN/ZACKARY DCKER“FOR WHOM IS THIS SPACE PERHAPS NOT-SO-SAFE AND HOW ARE WE FACILATG THAT FEAR. WHAT SMALL THGS N WE DO, BEE ’S OFTEN MICRO-AGGRSNS, THE LOOK ON SOMEONE’S FACE, OR SOMETHG THEY SAY OFF THE CUFF TO YOU, WHICH IS FULL OF STEREOTYP AND FULL OF MEANG, BUT N BE QUE FLIPPANT.”WHILE A MENT MAY BE TEND AS LIGHT HEARTED, FOR THE PERSON ON THE RECEIVG END, THOSE WORDS MAY CUT EP. THE NSTANT EXPOSURE TO MICRO-AGGRSNS AND RACIAL STEREOTYP N LEAD TO PEOPLE FEELG EXCLUD.THE HUMAN ST OF HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIAREAD MOREBY THKG MORE ABOUT HOW OUR WORDS MIGHT DO HARM AND REGNISG HOW SOMEONE MIGHT EXPERIENCE A SPACE DIFFERENTLY, DR MAREE SAYS WE N START TO MAKE SPAC SAFER FOR EVERYONE.“IT’S A B IALISTIC BUT N ALSO LEAD TO REFLECTG ON PATTERNS OF TERACTNS, OR HOW A SPACE IS VELOPED.”WHAT DOWN TO IS REGNISG THE DIVERSY OF PEOPLE AND EXPERIENC WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY. IF WE N DRAW MORE VOIC TO THE NVERSATN TO HELP BETTER UNRSTAND HOW FACTORS SUCH AS RACE, ENOMIC STAT, MOBILY AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND ALL NTRIBUTE TO THE WAY PEOPLE EXPERIENCE DISCRIMATN THEN MAYBE WE N START TO SMASH DOWN SOME MORE OF THOSE BARRIERS. BANNER: PHOTOX/CANBERRA PHOTOGRAPHY SERVICFIRST PUBLISHED ON 16 MAY 2021 HUMANILGBTIQA+ATRALIADIVERSYIDAHOBITTRANSGENRSTART THE NVERSATN ON FACEBOOKLOADG NVERSATN...SORRY, SOMETHG PREVENTED THE FACEBOOK MENTS FEED OM LOADG. HUMANIFEATUREDDR CLAIRE MAREEASSOCIATE PROFSOR; REAR; DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DEAN REARCH GRANTS, ASIA INSTUTE, FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE SHARE: 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.”UNRSTANDG THE DIVERSY OF ATRALIA’S LGBTQI+ MUNY
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX EQUALY
• BILL TO BAN GAY NVERSN AND REFORM DISCRIMATN LAWS ULD HELP CI NEXT NSW ERNMENT: MP
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS
• THOANDS RALLY FOR GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA AHEAD OF VOTE

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

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. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Crics say the bill will further entrench discrimatory hirg practicAtralia has troduced a new ntroversial bill aimed at protectg relig people om "ncel culture" other thgs, would allow Catholic schools the right to fire teachers or expel gay stunts the name of "relig ethos" Mister Stt Morrison said the Relig Discrimatn Bill, if passed, would ensure protectn for relig people and anisatns, like church, to exprs beliefs. Equaly Atralia, a gay rights advocy group told the ABC earlier this week: "When… a nurse says to a patient wh HIV that their HIV is a punishment by God, for example…[that] uld nstute a statement of belief, would be protected unr the law unr this bill.

The topic of relig discrimatn has been at the centre of several public bat recent years, particularly the wake of Atralia passg same-sex marriage legislatn triggered a ernment quiry - led by nservativ - to whether relig groups felt their right to exprsn was beg like gby player Israel Fol beg sacked om the natnal Wallabi si for sayg on his Instagram that "hell awas" gay people have also spurred the Atralian ernment was cricised earlier this year for awardg an Orr of Atralia honour to tennis player Margaret Court, who has publicly exprsed anti-gay state premiers at the time said Canberra should not have award her the Mr Morrison, a Pentestal Christian, has creasgly rid ncerns about discrimatn as "ncel culture".

WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTSIT IS LIKELY THE MPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY HAS NTRIBUTED TO ATRALIANS BEG MORE PROGRSIVE, AS SHOWN THIS YEAR’S HILDA SURVEYBY DR HANNAH MCCANN, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE SELECTN TO:THE 2017 HOEHOLD, INE AND LABOUR DYNAMICS ATRALIA (HILDA) SURVEY SHOWS THAT, SCE 2005, ATTUS TOWARD MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN HAVE BEE MORE PROGRSIVE.ONE OF THE BIGGT CHANG NCERNS ATTUS TOWARD THE RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUAL UPL. A PARISON OF ATTUS 2005 VERS 2015 SHOWS THAT BOTH MEN AND WOMEN ARE NOW MORE LIKELY TO AGREE WH THE STATEMENT: “HOMOSEXUAL UPL SHOULD HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS HETEROSEXUAL UPL DO.’’ WH SRG RANGG OM 1 (STRONG DISAGREEMENT) TO 7 (STRONG AGREEMENT), MEN’S ATTUS HAVE SHIFTED OM 3.3 (2005) TO 4.8 (2015), AND WOMEN’S ATTUS OM 4.0 (2005) TO 5.3 (2015). THE RULTS ALSO SHOW WE ARE NOW MORE POSIVE ABOUT UNMARRIED UPL LIVG TOGETHER AND WOMEN RAISG CHILDREN AS SGLE PARENTS.THE 2017 HILDA SURVEY POTS TO A SHIFT TOWARDS MORE PROGRSIVE VALU AMONG ATRALIANS. ANIMATN: LUCY FAHEY / VOICEOVER: CHRIS HATZISBUT WHY HAS A SHIFT TOWARD LS TRADNAL VIEWPOTS OCCURRED WHEN NSERVATIVE AND RIGHT-WG POLIL GROUPS SEEM TO BE GROWG ACROSS THE WORLD? WHILE IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIVELY EXPLA BROAD ATTUDAL SHIFTS, A FEW FACTORS N HELP MAKE SENSE OF THEM.ALTHOUGH IS UNCLEAR WHETHER PARTICIPANTS TERPRETED THE QUTN AS DIRECTLY RELATED TO GAY MARRIAGE, WE KNOW THAT TERNATNAL MPAIGNS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY HAVE BROUGHT HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS TO THE FOREONT OF PUBLIC BATE. ATRALIA'S GENERATNAL WEALTH DIVI IS BGREAD MOREA STAED MPAIGNIN 1976 THE HISTORY OF SEXUALY VOLUME 1, MICHEL FOUULT FAMOLY ARGUED THAT IS THE PROHIBN OF SEXUALY THAT PARADOXILLY CREAS DISCSN OF THE TOPIC. ALTHOUGH MARRIAGE EQUALY HAS NOT E TO PASS ATRALIA, ENDLS DISCSN HAS BEEN GENERATED ON THE SUBJECT, NOT LEAST BEE A STAED MPAIGN AROSE THE WAKE OF THE OVERT BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TRODUCED BY FORMER PRIME MISTER JOHN HOWARD.IN RPONSE TO HOWARD’S CHANG TO THE MARRIAGE ACT 2004, WHICH NOW SE MARRIAGE FED AS ‘THE UNN OF A MAN AND A WOMAN TO THE EXCLN OF ALL OTHERS’, THE ATRALIAN MARRIAGE EQUALY MPAIGN GROUP FORMED. SCE THEN THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN HEATED BAT PARLIAMENT AND THE MEDIA, SEVERAL PARLIAMENTARY QUIRI, THOANDS OF PEOPLE PROTTG THE STREETS, ONLE PETNS AND THE FORMATN OF NUMERO LOBBYG AND MPAIGN GROUPS. SCE THE HOWARD GOVERNMENT’S CHANG TO THE MARRIAGE ACT 2004, WHICH FED MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, THERE HAS BEEN A STAED MPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY ATRALIA. PICTURE: LEVI SNRS/UNSPLASHIN 2013 THE ATRALIAN CAPAL TERRORY LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY BRIEFLY PASSED A MARRIAGE EQUALY LG THAT SAW 31 UPL MARRY, ONLY TO BE OVERTURNED BY THE FERAL GOVERNMENT WH A WEEK. FOR THE LOVE OF THE PUNTREAD MOREWH MANY UNTRI LEGALISG MARRIAGE EQUALY – CLUDG CANADA (2005), NEW ZEALAND (2013) AND THE UNED STAT (2015) – THE NSENS AMONG MANY SEEMS TO BE THAT, SPE THE GOVERNMENT’S REFAL, MARRIAGE EQUALY ATRALIA IS EVABLE. NOTABLY THERE HAS BEEN SOME BATE WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER (LGBTQ) MUNI ABOUT WHETHER MARRIAGE EQUALY OUGHT TO BE CENTRAL TO THEIR ACTIVISM. HOWEVER, EVEN THIS BATE REVEALS THE MPAIGN HAS LED TO GREATER ATTENTN ON THE RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUAL UPL.GAY UPL ON THE RISETHE NUMBER OF ATRALIANS WHO REPORT INTIFYG AS PART OF A GAY OR LBIAN UPLE IS ALSO CREASG, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT ALSO BE RELATED TO THE EQUAL MARRIAGE BATE. THE 2016 CENS DATA REVEALED A HUGE 42 PER CENT RISE UPL INTIFYG AS SAME-SEX SCE 2011. GENR THEORIST JUDH BUTLER HAS ARGUED THAT GREATER SOCIAL REGNN OF LGBTQ ISSU OPENS UP CULTURAL SPACE FOR MORE PEOPLE TO OPENLY INTIFY AS LGBTQ. IN TURN, THIS NTRIBUT TO MORE CULTURAL VISIBILY, BE THAT MASTREAM MEDIA OR TERPERSONAL NTEXTS, AND MORE SPACE FOR LGBTQ INTIFITN. MORE ATRALIANS ARE INTIFYG AS LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR OR QUEER. PICTURE: TOM THE PHOTOGRAPHER/UNSPLASHWHILE A POSIVE CHANGE DISURSE AROUND THE RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUALS DON’T ‘MAKE’ PEOPLE GAY OR LBIAN, DO ALLOW GREATER ROOM FOR PEOPLE TO INTIFY THE WAYS. THIS MAY MEAN THAT, GENERAL, DIVIDUALS ARE NOW MORE LIKELY TO KNOW SOMEONE WHO INTIFI AS GAY OR LBIAN THEIR FAY OR SOCIAL WORK, WHICH ULD BE FLUENCG ATTUS TOWARD THE QUTN OF HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS. INED GIVEN THE RERCG NATURE OF GREATER LGBTQ REGNN, THIS MAY HELP TO EXPLA THE STEADY UPWARD TREND RULTS OVER TIME. WHY PARLIAMENT SHOULD CI ON SAME SEX MARRIAGEREAD MOREAS GAYLE RUB INTIFIED HER FAMO SAY THKG SEX, FIRST PUBLISHED 1984, ATTUS TOWARD UNMARRIED UPL AND GAY AND LBIAN UPL THE USA ARE AN AREA OF NTTATN. SHE ARGUED THAT RELATNSHIPS AND PARTICULAR SEXUAL ACTS EXIST WH A HIERARCHY – WH SOME ARRANGEMENTS AND ACTS SEEN AS MORE ACCEPTABLE THAN OTHERS. THE CHANGE TOWARD MORE PROGRSIVE ATTUS HIGHLIGHTED BY THE HILDA SURVEY DATA SUGGTS THAT PERHAPS THE MPAIGN FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY, AND TURN THE GREATER NUMBERS OF PEOPLE INTIFYG AS PART OF GAY AND LBIAN UPL, MIGHT BE HAVG SOME KD OF IMPACT. HOWEVER, WHAT THE HILDA SURVEY DO NOT REVEAL IS WHETHER ATTUS TOWARD SGLE HOMOSEXUAL PEOPLE, PEOPLE POLYAMORO RELATNSHIPS, OR THOSE WHO INTIFY ELSEWHERE ON THE LGBTQ SPECTM ARE ALSO CHANGG FOR THE BETTER. PERHAPS THE LSON HERE IS THAT IF MPAIGNS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE MAKE A REAL IMPACT ON ATTUS, THEN WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THE MOVEMENTS REGNISE A DIVERSY OF INTI. WHOUT THIS, THE RISK IS THAT NEW HIERARCHI OF ACCEPTABILY WILL FORM THE WAKE OF OTHER SIGNIFINT GAS. BANNER IMAGE: GETTY IMAGFIRST PUBLISHED ON 1 AUGT 2017 INSI BSSAME SEX MARRIAGE GAY RIGHTSLGBTIQA+HILDAHILDA 2017START THE NVERSATN ON FACEBOOKLOADG NVERSATN...SORRY, SOMETHG PREVENTED THE FACEBOOK MENTS FEED OM LOADG. INSI BSFEATUREDDR HANNAH MCCANNSCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND POLIL SCIENC, FACULTY OF ARTS, 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.”WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTS

Views on same-sex marriage or other legal regnnViews on same-sex upl' right to adoptAcceptance of homosexuals as neighbors? 8%) Mentned homosexualsDid not mentn homosexuals (88.

UNRSTANDG THE DIVERSY OF ATRALIA’S LGBTQI+ MUNYTO UNRSTAND THE ISSU THAT IMPACT PEOPLE WH OUR LGBTQI+ MUNY, MANY OF NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR OWN POSN OF PRIVILEGEBY LISA NEEDHAM, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE SELECTN TO:IN DECEMBER 2017, AFTER A LONG AND GHT PROCS, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BEME LEGAL ATRALIA. IT WAS A TIME TO CELEBRATE. MARRIAGE EQUALY LEGISLATN REMOVED ONE OF THE LONGSTANDG BARRIERS THAT HAD PREVENTED SAME-SEX UPL OM FULLY PARTICIPATG WH SOCIETY.MARRIAGE EQUALY IS ONLY PART OF THE NVERSATN TO UNRSTAND THE BARRIERS THAT STILL EXIST FOR LGBTQI+ PEOPLE. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGHOWEVER, MARRIAGE EQUALY IS ONLY PART OF THE NVERSATN. IT DON’T SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS OR ERADITE SEXUAL RACISM; DON’T ADDRS THE CREASED LEVELS OF POVERTY WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY OR MEAN THAT ANTI-TRANS DISURSE DISAPPEARS. SO, HOW N WE BEG TO ADDRS SOME OF THE ONGOG ISSU?DR CLAIRE MAREE IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFSOR AND REAR AT THE ASIA INSTUTE. HER REARCH EXAM THE WAYS WHICH SEXUALY AND GENR INTY IMPACT ON PEOPLE’S SENSE OF BELONGG. MULTIPLE JEOPARDY: COVID-19 AND INDIGENO LGBTIQ+ LIVREAD MOREDR MAREE SAYS THAT BEFORE WE N START TO ADDRS THE ISSU THAT IMPACT ON PEOPLE WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY WE NEED TO BETTER UNRSTAND THE BARRIERS THAT STILL EXIST FOR PEOPLE. AND ORR TO DO THIS, SHE SAYS ’S IMPORTANT THAT WE ACKNOWLEDGE OUR OWN POSN OF PRIVILEGE.“NOT BEG AWARE OF STGGL OM A VERY PRIVILEGED POSN OF NOT HAVG TO BE AWARE OF THOSE STGGL,” SHE SAYS.“IF YOU N BEG TO UNPACK YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE THEN I THK LEADS YOU TO VELOPG A GREATER UNRSTANDG.” IT’S ALSO IMPORTANT TO REGNISE THAT THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT AFFECT PEOPLE’S SENSE OF INTY AND BELONGG. A PERSON’S ETHNICY, ENOMIC STAT AND MOBILY ALL PLAY A SIGNIFINT PART FLUENCG HOW THEY ARE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE SOCIETY. THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT AFFECT PEOPLE’S SENSE OF INTY AND BELONGG. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGTHE POVERTY BARRIERONE ISSUE THAT NTU TO DISPROPORTNATELY AFFECT THE LGBTQI+ MUNY IS POVERTY. AND DR MAREE SAYS THERE’S A MULTU OF REASONS WHY WE NTUE TO SEE CREASED LEVELS OF ENOMIC HARDSHIP.“THE POVERTY ISSUE IS TIED TO THE HISTORIL TRAJECTORY OF WHERE, FOR EXAMPLE TRANS PEOPLE, WERE AND ARE ABLE TO WORK, AND HOW AND WHERE THEY N FEEL SAFE AND ABLE TO WORK. THE PROTTS THAT BEGAN MARDI GRASREAD MORE“IT ALSO TI TO TN, TO WHERE YOUTH FEEL THEY ARE ABLE TO ACCS TN AND FEEL FORTABLE AND ABLE TO EXPRS THEMSELV WHOUT FEAR OF DISCRIMATN OR VLENCE SCHOOLS,” SAYS DR MAREE.AND THE FEAR OF DISCRIMATN ISN’T JT NFED TO STUTNAL SETTGS. MANY YOUNG PEOPLE WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY ALSO FACE DISCRIMATN OR VLENCE WH THE HOME AND, SOME S, THEY N BE LEFT WH NO CHOICE BUT TO LEAVE THEIR HOME.“IT ALSO TAPS TO THE HOME, WHETHER YOUTH ARE ABLE TO REMA THE HOME OR WHETHER THEY ARE FACED WH TERPERSONAL RELATNSHIPS THAT BREAK DOWN ONCE THEY DISCLOSE ANY NON-NORMATIVE SEXUALY OR GENR INTY”.MANY YOUNG PEOPLE WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY ALSO FACE DISCRIMATN AT SCHOOL OR HOME. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGWHETHER ’S FEAR OF DISCRIMATN THE CLASSROOM, RELATNSHIP BREAKDOWN OR WHERE SOMEONE FEELS SAFE TO WORK, THE ARE VERY REAL BARRIERS THAT NTUE TO PREVENT PEOPLE OM REACHG THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AND PERPETUATE POVERTY. UNRSTANDG SEXUAL RACISMTHERE ARE ALSO SOME DIFFICULT NVERSATNS THAT NEED TO BE HAD WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY ON ISSU SUCH AS SEXUAL RACISM. WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTSREAD MOREWH ONE EVERY 10 ATRALIANS HAVG BEEN BORN ASIA, DR MAREE SAYS THAT WE HAVE TO START REGNISG AND ADDRSG THE CULTURAL STEREOTYP THAT PERVA SOCIETY, CLUDG WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY.“SO WE’VE GOT THE STEREOTYPE OF THE REALLY NERDY ASIAN GUY AND THE STEREOTYPE OF THE HYPERSEXUAL ASIAN WOMAN, OR THE DRAGON LADY AND THOSE STEREOTYP FUNCTN REALLY PERVERSE AND NTRADICTORY WAYS,” DR MAREE SAYS.PART OF THE PLEXY OF ADDRSG ISSU AFFECTG THE LGBTQI+ MUNY IS THAT INTY TEGORI ARE ALL ABOUT CLN AND EXCLN – WHO BELONGS TO THIS MUNY AND WHO DO NOT. AND BEE OF THIS, DR MAREE SAYS, WE HAVE TO NSTANTLY QUTN OURSELV.WE HAVE TO START REGNISG THE CULTURAL STEREOTYP THAT PERVA SOCIETY. PICTURE: THE GENR SPECTM COLLECTN/ZACKARY DCKER“FOR WHOM IS THIS SPACE PERHAPS NOT-SO-SAFE AND HOW ARE WE FACILATG THAT FEAR. WHAT SMALL THGS N WE DO, BEE ’S OFTEN MICRO-AGGRSNS, THE LOOK ON SOMEONE’S FACE, OR SOMETHG THEY SAY OFF THE CUFF TO YOU, WHICH IS FULL OF STEREOTYP AND FULL OF MEANG, BUT N BE QUE FLIPPANT.”WHILE A MENT MAY BE TEND AS LIGHT HEARTED, FOR THE PERSON ON THE RECEIVG END, THOSE WORDS MAY CUT EP. THE NSTANT EXPOSURE TO MICRO-AGGRSNS AND RACIAL STEREOTYP N LEAD TO PEOPLE FEELG EXCLUD.THE HUMAN ST OF HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIAREAD MOREBY THKG MORE ABOUT HOW OUR WORDS MIGHT DO HARM AND REGNISG HOW SOMEONE MIGHT EXPERIENCE A SPACE DIFFERENTLY, DR MAREE SAYS WE N START TO MAKE SPAC SAFER FOR EVERYONE.“IT’S A B IALISTIC BUT N ALSO LEAD TO REFLECTG ON PATTERNS OF TERACTNS, OR HOW A SPACE IS VELOPED.”WHAT DOWN TO IS REGNISG THE DIVERSY OF PEOPLE AND EXPERIENC WH THE LGBTQI+ MUNY. IF WE N DRAW MORE VOIC TO THE NVERSATN TO HELP BETTER UNRSTAND HOW FACTORS SUCH AS RACE, ENOMIC STAT, MOBILY AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND ALL NTRIBUTE TO THE WAY PEOPLE EXPERIENCE DISCRIMATN THEN MAYBE WE N START TO SMASH DOWN SOME MORE OF THOSE BARRIERS. BANNER: PHOTOX/CANBERRA PHOTOGRAPHY SERVICFIRST PUBLISHED ON 16 MAY 2021 HUMANILGBTIQA+ATRALIADIVERSYIDAHOBITTRANSGENRSTART THE NVERSATN ON FACEBOOKLOADG NVERSATN...SORRY, SOMETHG PREVENTED THE FACEBOOK MENTS FEED OM LOADG. HUMANIFEATUREDDR CLAIRE MAREEASSOCIATE PROFSOR; REAR; DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DEAN REARCH GRANTS, ASIA INSTUTE, FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE SHARE: 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.”UNRSTANDG THE DIVERSY OF ATRALIA’S LGBTQI+ MUNY

2%)Jtifiabily of homosexualy? "Should society accept homosexualy?

Perceived Acceptance of Gay People?

By The Numbers4% of Atralians scribed themselv as beg gay, lbian or bisexual78% of Atralians agree trans people serve the same rights and protectns as other Atralians66% of Atralians agree that young people should be able to accs healthre that supports them to live as their te selv. HistoryHomosexual activy Atralia?

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX EQUALY

Homosexual activy Atralia is legal. 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? Bt-rated untri the Gay Travel Inx 2023.

Typ of relatnships gay and bisexual male adults had Melbourne Atralia 2022. Typ of relatnships gay and bisexual male adults had Sydney Atralia 2022. Typ of relatnships gay and bisexual mal had Queensland, Atralia 2022.

How gay and bisexual male adults met sex partners Melbourne Atralia 2022. How gay and bisexual male adults met sex partners Sydney Atralia 2022. How gay and bisexual male adults met sex partners Queensland Atralia 2022.

BILL TO BAN GAY NVERSN AND REFORM DISCRIMATN LAWS ULD HELP CI NEXT NSW ERNMENT: MP

HIV tt rult stat of gay and bisexual male adults Melbourne Atralia 2022.

HIV tt rult stat of gay and bisexual male adults Sydney Atralia 2022. HIV tt rult stat of gay and bisexual male adults Queensland Atralia 2022. STI diagnos received by gay and bi male adults Melbourne Atralia 2022.

STI diagnos received by gay and bisexual male adults Sydney Atralia 2022. STI diagnos received by gay and bi male adults Queensland Atralia 2022.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Equaly.

However, the Commissn is also mdful that some trans and tersex people feel strongly about the benefs of affiliatn wh the gay, lbian and bisexual muny. For this reason and bee is ternatnally regnised, the Commissn the acronym ‘LGBTI’ which stands for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex. General homophobia and other adverse feelg towards lbian, gay and bisexual people the muny n lead to discrimatn and harassment.

SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS

Not Round Here: Affirmg Diversy, Challengg Homophobia (2000). The Commissn's paper, ‘Stori of discrimatn experienced by the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr and Intersex muny’, ntas more rmatn about mon experienc of discrimatn that LGBTI people face. "Not Round Here: Affirmg Diversy, Challengg Homophobia".

In 2000, the Commissn and the Atralian Youth Foundatn veloped a trag manual lled "Not Round Here: Affirmg Diversy, Challengg Homophobia".

The trag manual is signed for e anti-homophobia trag for service provirs whose clients and ntacts clu people who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenred. The Catholic Edutn Office said that Ms Griffh’s high profile an anisatn of gay and lbian teachers and stunts and her public statements on sexualy meant that she was an unsuable ndidate. The Out on the Fields survey found that 82% of LGBT rponnts reported wnsg homophobia at sport.

THOANDS RALLY FOR GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA AHEAD OF VOTE

The mental health of bisexual people is credibly poor due to the double discrimatn we face, both om straight people and gay/lbian folk. LGBTI+ refuge seekg asylum Atralia are regularly required by tribunals and urts to name gay clubs Sydney, answer qutns about Madonna, and provi evince of their sexual promiscuy. Sometim, applitns are rejected on the basis that an applint do not “look gay”.

The Equaly Project® veloped the Atralian LGBTIQA+ Policy Gui to ensure that lbian, gay, bi+, trans, genr diverse, non-bary, tersex, queer, asexual and aromantic (ace and aro) people and their fai experience genue cln and the realisatn of their human rights Atralia. It's time to talk about gay reparatns and how they n rectify past persecutns of LGBTQ people. Incln of targeted qutns on genr and sexualy also requir greater assuranc around data tegry — a particular ncern of olr members of the LGBTIQ+ muny who lived through the crimalisatn of homosexualy, lbian wch hunts, surveillance and other related trma.

Sydney MP Alex Greenwich says he will seek to ban gay nversn practic and remove a swathe of laws that discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people New South Wal a bill, to help terme who he’d support if next year’s electn rults a hung announcement has been weled by advote group Equaly Atralia, wh chief executive Anna Brown llg for multiparty support for the legislatn. Greenwich, an pennt, said on Friday that he would beg nsultatn on an omnib “equaly” bill that would seek to unwd a seri of discrimatory laws agast LGBTQ+ people ahead of next year’s global WorldPri event bill to be prented draft form later this year, before beg voted on after the next electn, would remove wi-rangg exemptns the state’s 45-year-old anti-discrimatn act that allow private schools to discrimate agast gay or trans stunts and bill would also allow trans people to change their sex or genr on legal documents whout unrgog surgery, while also endg the “unnecsary medil procr” rried out on tersex people whout their nsent.