Australian Catholic University: ACU orders staff to remove public display of rainbow flags
Librarians put up a rainbow flag to welcome new students. It didn’t last long.
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Librarians put up a rainbow flag to welcome new students. It didn’t last long.
In a historic first, Melbourne's iconic landmark, the Shrine of Remembrance will be bathed in rainbow colours on Sunday August 1, 2022, to honour LGBTQI veterans. Not surprisingly, the decision has run into the usual homophobic and transphobic opposition.
Forty-years ago a group of ex-servicepersons were denied the right to lay a wreath at the Shrine Of Remembrance in Melbourne on Anzac Day in honour of gay and lesbian veterans who had served and died in war.
'We know that you’re a homosexual, we’ve been following you.'This is what a former Australian soldier and cipher operator was told during an interrogation.
Two years after US President Joe Biden declared transgender equality the “civil rights issue of our time”, the issue is now at the centre of Australian politics.