Lgbt Political Advocacy Groups in Australia - Community Action Against Homophobia, Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (Paperback)

Chapters: Community Action Against Homophobia, Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, Australian Coalition for Equality, Society Five, Daughters of Bilitis, Coalition of Activist Lesbians Australia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) is a community activist organisation based in Sydney, Australia. Since its establishment in 1999, CAAH has aimed to eliminate homophobia and achieve full equality for queer people -- defined as "lesbian, gay, bisexual, same sex attracted, transgender, intersex or non-heterosexually identifying" in the CAAH constitution. CAAH began in 1999 with a group of students already active within the Sydney queer student movement. At a time when student dissent against aggressive government policies was reaching a fruition across the country, the queer movement was no exception, and groups like the Cross Campus Sexuality Network (CCSN) were already active in New South Wales. However it was felt that these groups were not properly engaging with the broader community and so an offshoot was created which combined a more radical political message with an intent to galvanise the broader community around issues of liberation and representation. CAAH's first action was against a Catholic anti-gay organisation known as Courage, which preached a message that homosexuality was a disease that needed to be cured. Activists managed to have that meeting shut down and the organisation removed from university campus. CAAH's politics are mostly left-wing. While it is not aligned to any particular political party it has very close connections with the Democratic Socialist Perspective's youth organisation Resistance (socialist youth organisation). CAAH's origins in the student movement in Sydney are refl...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=494801