Stephen Rainbow: Homosexual Law Reform, Free Speech and 1986
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Stephen Rainbow discusses the significance of the Homosexual Law Reform Act and its connection to free speech in 1986.
In 1986 Stephen Rainbow marched with HUG, Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays, while living as a married father who had not yet come out. Forty years after the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed, he joins Dane Giraud to argue that the reform was, above all, a free speech fight. Rainbow describes a country in which living openly was, in his word, inconceivable. Consensual sex between men was a criminal offence. Men left for Sydney, San Francisco and London to find a life they could not have here. He...
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