Journal article
Violence in the Name of Equality: The Postal Survey on Same-Sex Marriage, LGBTQIA Activism and Legal Redemption
O Mazel
Australian Feminist Law Journal | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2022
Abstract
Violence has underpinned many of the laws relating to LGBTQIA+ people in Australia since colonisation, demarcating them as deviant and criminal and denying them access to the same rights as others. Since the 1970s, legal reforms have, as Robert Cover might describe it, demonstrated the redemptive quality of law in its response to LGBTQIA+ peoples’ commitment and activism over time. More recently, the legal definition of marriage was amended to include two people regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics. Whilst this legal achievement was widely celebrated, the postal survey on same-sex marriage that was conducted as a pre-requisite for legislative change..
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Funding Acknowledgements
I would like to thank all those I interviewed for their generosity, knowledge and expertise. I acknowledge my supervisors Ann Genovese and Beth Gaze for their support and guidance and thank Jane Covernton for her dedicated reading of my work. This paper has benefitted enormously from the comments and suggestions of the peer reviewers, and I thank them for their considered reading and constructive feedback. This research is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship.