50 years on: How the Stonewall riots inspired Australia's LGBTIQ+ movement

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In 1969, a riot in a New York bar sparked a global rights movement. Half a century on, those involved in the Australian campaign tell SBS News what impact it had.

In the early hours of 28 June 1969, after a warm New York night, a group of LGBTIQ+ locals decided to stand up to police abuse at the city's now-legendary Stonewall Inn.

Few venues welcomed openly gay Americans, and exceptions - including the Mafia-run Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village - often attracted the attention of authorities. "It became the symbolic start of the fight for LGBTIQ+ rights all around the world. It was like a stone dropped in a pond and its ripples spread."- Garry Wotherspoon, Australian activist

"CAMP started to deal with several things, such as the medical profession which did aversion therapy and psychosurgery, to deal with the law which criminalised homosexual activity, to deal with the church which regarded us as sinful," he said.Then in March 1978, Australians Ken Davis and Anne Talvet received a letter from the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day organisers calling on people overseas to stand up for LGBTIQ+ rights and commemorate the Stonewall riots.

"We decided to have a forum and then a march, and we decided to have a night time party in Taylor Square, a celebration, not a demonstration," Mr Davis - who became one of the original 78ers - told SBS News.Supplied

 

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