It's a Queer Thing

Website addresses below were accessible at 5 March 2004.

Willett Graham , Living Out Loud: A History of Gay and Lesbian Activism in Australia (2000) 264–5.

In NSW, the GLRL obtained a much improved relationship recognition law in 1999 and the equalisation of the age of consent <www.glrl.org.au>. In Western Australia, the Labor Government released Lesbian and Gay Law Reform: Report of the Ministerial Committee (2001) after lobbying by Gay and Lesbian Equality (WA) and has now enacted the most progressive law reform in the country <www.galewa.asn.au>. In Tasmania, the last state to repeal its sodomy laws years after the celebrated Toonen case, anti-discrimination laws have been enacted and, in 2003, gay and lesbian relationships were recognised, following the long-standing efforts of the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby <www.tased.edu.au/tasonline/tasqueer/tasqueer.html>. Even the new Northern Territory Government has passed the Law Reform (Gender Sexuality and De Facto Relationships) Act 2003. While there have been some minor reforms in Queensland, both it and South Australia are now lagging behind.

Parsons Ian , Cripples, Coons, Fags and Fems: A Look at How Four Human Rights Movements Have Fought Prejudice (1999) 57.

Jukes Janet Miller Kenton , ‘Victoria on the Move? Yeah, Right!’, Melbourne Star Observer (Melbourne), 19 June 1999.

VGLRL, Annual Report 1999–2000 <home.vicnet.net.au/∼vglrl/>.

Ibid.

VGLRL, Enough is Enough (2000) <home.vicnet.net.au/∼vglrl/>.

VGLRL, Making Love Legal (2001) 1 <home.vicnet.net.au/∼vglrl/>.

Ibid.

EOC, Discussion Paper on Same Sex Relationships and the Law (1997) 3.

EOC, Same Sex Relationships and the Law (1998), 6 <www.eoc.vic.gov.au>.

Ibid 5.

Ibid.

Cooper Davina , Sexing the City: Lesbian and Gay Politics within the Activist State (1987).

Ibid 21.

Victoria , Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 1 May 2001, 800 ( Wynne Richard ).

Victoria , Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, Tuesday 1 May 2001, 806 ( McCall Andrea ).

Fax copy of this letter, dated 18 December 2000, on file with the author.

Victoria , Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, Tuesday 1 May 2001, (see eg, Perton Victor MP , (Lib 819); Lenders John MP , (ALP 821)).

Dowsett Gary , ‘Gay and Lesbian Rights: Whatever Happened to Liberation?’ (1999) 8 VGLRL Newsletter <home.vicnet.net.au/∼vglrl/>.

Ibid.

Section 1 of the Statute Law Amendment (Relationships) Act 2001 (Vic) which, together with the Statute Law Further Amendment (Relationships) Act 2001 (Vic), amended multiple pieces of legislation.

Weeks Jeffrey Heaphy Brian Donovan Catherine , Same Sex Intimacies: Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments (2001) 14.

For a much fuller discussion of these historical shifts, see Woolcock Geoffrey Altman Dennis , ‘The Largest Street Party in the World: The Gay and Lesbian Movement in Australia’ in Adam Barry D Duyvendak Jan Willem Krouwel Andre , The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics (1999) 326; Cruikshank Margaret , The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement (1992).

Cooper , above n 14, 1.

The VGLRL and the Victorian Government recently launched a joint report and website, Over the Rainbow <http://over-the-rainbow.org> at 5 March 2004.

<www.lawreform.vic.gov.au>.

Sex Discrimination Amendment Bill 2002 (Cth).

This enabled passage of the Superannuation (Co-contribution for low income earners) Act 2003 (Cth).

GLRL, ‘GLRL Position on Same-Sex Marriage’ (Press Release, 28 August 2003) <www.glrl.org.au/publications/press_releases/2003/01Sep2003_Marriage.htm>.

Parsons , above n 3, 114.

Woolcock Altman , above n 25, 328.

Parsons , above n 3, 84.