Quick questions on LGBTQ rights movements (QCE Modern History Unit 2)

Harry Hay and others. Pre-Stonewall homophile organisation focused on respectability, social acceptance and decriminalisation.

First lesbian rights organisation in the United States. Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin.

Government inquiry recommended decriminalisation of homosexual acts between consenting adults. Led eventually to the Sexual Offences Act 1967.

Police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar produced unexpected resistance. The riot lasted multiple nights. Trans women of colour (Marsha P.

Public, radical, and intersectional with anti-war and Black Power politics.

New York, Los Angeles, Chicago. Established the annual Pride tradition.

Encouraged as a political and personal act. Sharply increased visibility.

Sexual Offences Act 1967 (England and Wales); Scotland 1980; Northern Ireland 1982.

South Australia 1975, ACT 1976, Victoria 1981, NSW 1984, NT 1984, WA 1989, Queensland 1990, Tasmania 1997.

State by state through the 1970s-2000s. Lawrence v Texas (2003) struck down remaining sodomy laws nationally.

Cases of a new immune deficiency syndrome reported initially in gay men in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco (June 1981). HIV identified as the cause (1984).

Reagan did not give a public address on AIDS until 1987, by which time over $20\,000$ Americans had died.

Aggressive direct action demanding access to experimental treatments, regulatory reform, and increased research funding.

The Hawke government's evidence-based response (1985 onward) was internationally praised. Bob Hawke's emotional 1985 announcement, the Grim Reaper TV ads (1987), and harm-reduction policies (needle exchanges, condom distribution) gave Australia one of the world's lowest HIV infection rates among developed countries.

First country to legalise same-sex marriage.