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First gay Mardi Gras
Making history
Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives president Graham Willett describes the Mardi Gras as the ‘most dramatic moment of the backlash’ against the campaign for gay rights. The parade started at 10pm and progressed down Oxford Lane towards the metropolis. The trouble began when they reached Hyde Park.
In an attempt to receive the crowd to disperse, the police confiscated the head truck and raucous speaker. The crowd, seeing that access to Hyde Park was blocked, headed towards Kings Cross. The police moved in and arrested 53 people.
According to Willett, ‘Many of those arrested were badly beaten inside police cells and the Sydney Morning Herald sank to new editorial lows by publishing the complete list of names and occupations of those arrested’.
Supporters began a ‘drop the charges’ campaign, which initially generated more arrests. However, due to widespread uproar about the arrests as skillfully as favourable media coverage, the first charges were dropped in October , and all charges were dropped by the end of Additionally, la
A recent Australian study revealed that gay men get paid up 18 percent less than their straight counterparts. Studies in the U.S. and Europe have turned up similar findings.
A dozen studies in the U.S. analyzing Census data have found “a significant pay gap for gay men when compared to heterosexual men who have the same generative characteristics,” according to the Williams Institute, a UCLA think tank that studies how public policies can affect LGBT groups.
Depending on the study, gay and attracted to both genders men in the U.S. collect 10 to 32 percent less than similarly qualified heterosexual men.
Lesbians, however, have been shown construct more than their straight female counterparts; studies estimate the differential to be between 8 to 13 percent. Still, lesbians get less than either heterosexual or gay men, the studies show.
Some of the most precise lgbtq+ pay gap data comes from U.S. government employees.
A Georgia Articulate University found men with lgbtq+ partners earn 8 to 10 percent less than comparable married men in state government, even when controlling for differences in education, r
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