By: Steve in Waterloo

Steve in Waterloo — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 06:51:27 +0000

About time! I hope Patricia Bergin and James Woods will now apologise for their persecution, vilification and slandering of gay identities, gay clubs and the wider gay community during the Wood Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service. The focus of that inquiry too readily became about vilifying John Marsden and the gay community in general. It was frightening and disgusting to observe at the time and remains seared in my memory. It wasn’t only bashings and murders that were used to keep us down. Lawyers and judges have a lot to answer for too.

By: Bob Hay

Bob Hay — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:24:05 +0000

In the interests of historical accuracy, this apology should have been delivered to Gay and Bisexual men because lesbians and the “TQI+” people were not subject to that part of the Criminal Code. I joined CAMP in 1974 and for the next 50 years have been deeply involved in the Gay Rights Movement – among other activities, at one time I was one of the owners/publishers of The Star Observer, took part in the founding of the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras (now Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras) and was a “history cardinal” leading the Sisters’ Sydney Gay Walks every Mardi Gras week. I think it unfair that others, not part of the gay men’s fight for freedom from criminal laws should take any credit for our achievements when they suffered none of the harm. Of course, lesbians were persecuted, but when they were, it was not because of the anti-gay section of the Crimes Act – as Queen Victoria correctly knew, to prove sodomy, you had to prove penetration and ejaculation.

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By: Steve in Waterloo

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