In the past decades the LGBTI community has forced society to recognise us, governments to begrudgingly accept us and the majority of the population to welcome us. Now however we face a counter offensive to the movement for equality, not just here in Australia but across the world.
The election of Donald Trump in the US marked a significant shift, this ultra right wing bigot has emboldened every homophobe who looked upon the achievements of equality and civil rights with disgust. Since coming...
In the past decades the LGBTI community has forced society to recognise us, governments to begrudgingly accept us and the majority of the population to welcome us. Now however we face a counter offensive to the movement for equality, not just here in Australia but across the world.
The election of Donald Trump in the US marked a significant shift, this ultra right wing bigot has emboldened every homophobe who looked upon the achievements of equality and civil rights with disgust. Since coming into power he has rolled back guidance to schools protecting transgender students, appointed Tom Price, a hard lined vocal opponent of LGBTI rights as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Eric Fanning the first openly gay sectary of the Army have been replaced by Mark Green who called being transgender "a disease."
Here in Australia encouraged by both Donald Trump, the frenzied right wing of his party and his own conservative values Malcolm Turnbull has been a barrier to equality, derailing the move towards marriage rights with the plebiscite con and standing behind the assault upon the safe schools program.
Meanwhile in other parts of the world our community faces a much direr situation, in Chechnya the government, under the protection of notorious homopobe Vladimir Putin and the indifference of Western governments, is unleashing a wave of extreme violence against the LGBTI community.
We aren't going to take this lying down!
Activists in the US have called a for a Equality March for Unity and Pride to bring together tens of thousands in opposition to Trump. In response Community Action Against Homophobia here in Sydney, and other community groups across the country, are organise protests to take a stand not only against Trump but just as importantly against our own bigoted government here in Australia.
Let's get together, let's make some noise, let's show them that they can't trample on our rights and get away with it!
1pm, 11 June,
Sydney Town Hall
