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WorldPride Shouldn’t Camouflage Sydney’s Shame

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starobserver.com.au

Dear LGBTIQA+ visitors to World Pride 2023,Welcome to Australia from every corner of the globe for what is sure to be an enjoyable World Pride 2023.But I want you to know something about Sydney few of you will hear from World Pride organisers and spruikers: you are travelling to Australia’s most homophobic and transphobic city for an event that perpetuates the dangerous myth Sydney is Australia’s queer paradise.In the 2017 national survey on marriage equality, the lowest Yes vote was recorded in the city’s suburbs.

The national vote was 61.6% but some voting divisions in Sydney returned less than half that. This low level of support for LGBTIQA+ equality reflects in Australia’s worst queer laws at a state level.The state of New South Wales, of which Sydney is the capital, has Australia’s least effective laws against LGBTIQA+ discrimination.

It still allows faith-based schools to expel queer kids and fire gay teachers. It doesn’t protect bisexual, non-binary or intersex people at all.Soon NSW will be the only place in Australia that requires trans and gender-diverse people to have genital surgery to access affirming identity documents.Mardi Gras Parade 2018.

Image: Ann-Marie Calilhanna.Obviously, there’s a glamorous, raucous, progressive side to Sydney. But the influence of that Sydney has declined.It’s true, the city’s eastern suburbs recorded a high Yes vote for marriage equality in 2017, but that wasn’t enough to counteract the strong No vote with New South Wales returning the lowest Yes vote of any state or territory.

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