What was it like to be LGBTIQ+ in the 1970s?

It's almost 50 years since the first Mardi Gras in Sydney wound its way down Oxford Street

In the early 1970's Peter de Waal and Peter Bonsall-Boone helped found the Campaign Against Moral Persecution Balmain. Source: SBS

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• Peter de Waal and Peter Bonsall-Boone were part of the first Mardi Gras march in 1978
• In the early 1970's Peter de Waal and Peter Bonsall-Boone helped found the Campaign Against Moral Persecution in these church halls at Balmain
• An exhibition at the New South Wales State Library marks 50 years since Gay and Lesbian life went public.

Known as the 78-ers, this brave group of activists are touted as having paved the way for modern LGBTIQ+ rights in Australia

 

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