Hobart rally for gay law reform

Hobart rally for gay law reform

HOBART — Despite extremely cold and wet weather, 600 people marched here for gay law reform on September 24. The loud and vibrant march and rally were organised by the Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Coalition.

Many organisations were represented, including Quakers, the Wilderness Society, Community Aid Abroad, Resistance and Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays.

Chants included "Stop hate, educate the state", "Straight, not narrow" and "We're here, we're queer, and we're not going to the mainland".

The rally was addressed by Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group activists Lavinia Savell and Rodney Croome, writer Richard Flannagan and Democratic Socialist Party activist Jen Crothers.

Croome highlighted the determination and courage that have kept the struggle for gay law reform going for the past six years. Crothers said, "It's more than a struggle for freedom of sexuality; it's a struggle for the democratic rights of all people." n

From GLW issue 161