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QUEER INS OM GAY TO Z – ACTIVISTS, ARTISTS AND TRAILBLAZERS
* gay australian icons *
Thomas feels the importance of brgg explic queer ntent to the foreont of the screen as monly has challeng around pictns of gay sex and there is not enough reprentatn.
Homosexualy only beme legal every state Atralia 1997 after Tasmania fally crimalised , and I’m sure we all remember the trmatic plebisce vote that lead to the legalisatn of gay marriage 2017. Sce then, a number of Atralian sports stars have e out as gay cludg Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe 2014 and three-time Olympic water polo player Rowie Webster.
As Atralia's most proment openly gay polician, Penny was volly agast the same-sex marriage plebisce 2017, sayg she didn't want her relatnship or fay "to be the subject of quiry, of censure, of nmnatn, by others. The in behd the beloved fictnal character Sharon Strezlecki om Kath and Kim faced private stggl as a closeted actor before she was ready to e out publicly as gay 2012.
25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY ATRALIANS
In 2014, Joel and fellow gay edian Rhys Nicholson travelled to the regnal Victorian town of Colac to film a seri for the ABC, but the pair were met wh disgraceful homophobic slurs om lols. First appearg on our screens on season six where he placed third, Dave ma headl for clarg he was gay a speech to his Hoemat, who wholeheartedly supported the young farmer's brave admissn ont of the natn. As such, Patrick Boyle and Antoe Corbe’s lourful book, Queer Ins om Gay to Z, celebrat our most inoclastic sisters and brothers (and genr nonbary iends) across history.