![]() Interviewed by this program in 1975, they'd been betrayed to police by a friend, and handed an ultimatum: go to South Australia or go to jail. It took a while for other jurisdictions to follow, which led to dilemmas like that faced by a cohabiting Melbourne couple "Lindsay" and "John". In 1975 South Australia was the first state to rule that homosexual relations in private between two consenting adults was not a crime. SARAH DINGLE: It seems strange now, but not long ago being a gay man in Australia meant being a criminal. ![]() Victoria's pledged to abolish convictions for consensual adult gay sex, but experts are calling for a national overhaul. Tasmania was the last state to fall in line in 1997.īut now experts across the country say people who were convicted for being gay, are still suffering because of their criminal record. The decriminalisation of gay sex in Australia began in the 1970s. DAVID MARK: There's a growing concern in the gay community that a fight supposedly won decades ago still isn't over.
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