QUOTES - QUEER

Question 1

political influence on views towards the queer community?

Answer 1

“perversion of godless communist influence” + a potential threat to national security (Pratt et al.)

Question 2

views on HIV/AIDS pandemic:

Answer 2

“gay plague” Pratt et al

Question 3

Dennis Altman on. the involvement in this movement:

Answer 3

“few people who were not themselves homosexual saw the issue as serious”

Question 4

response to the 1st Mardi Gras

Answer 4

53 participants were arrested and was met with a “heavy-handed police response” (Pratt et al.)

Question 5

Dennis Altman on the concerns of this community:

Answer 5

“like other stigmatised groups, homosexuals do not enjoy protection of the law”

Question 6

Historian Graham Willett on sexuality in AUS

Answer 6

“ignorance of homosexuality”

Question 7

historians Sarah Pinto + Katie Holmes on gender/sexuality in the 50s?

Answer 7

“dark decade”

Question 8

historian Michelle arrow on the 1st Mardi Grase in 1978?

Answer 8

“opened up a new, more confrontational phase in gay and lesbian politics”

Question 9

HIV advocate David Menadue on the pandemic?

Answer 9

“the nastiness and homophobia that as directed at gay men was alarming.”

Question 10

Historians Mark Peel and Christina Twomey on the transformations for these groups by the end of the period?

Answer 10

“gay men and lesbian women lived more openly that they had in the past.”