when: 11 - 28 February 2020 | venue: Seymour Centre | cost: $30 - $45 | address: Corner City Rd and Cleveland St | website: https://www.seymourcentre.com/event/the-campaign/
published: 22 Feb 2020, 5 min read
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Seymour Centre presents The Campaign, an honest and raw retelling of the journey to repeal Australia's most archaic anti-gay legislation as part of the 2020 Sydney Mardi Gras Festival.
In 1988, more than 100 arrests were made at Hobart's popular Salamanca Market when the Tasmanian Gay Law Reform Group defied a ban to gather signatures on a petition to decriminalise sexual activity between consenting adult males in private.
The unprecedented and highly publicised arrests grew into Australia's largest-ever gay rights civil disobedience, which began a campaign to change the Tasmanian law - the most draconian in the Western world in terms of its penalty and, by the time of its repeal, the last of its kind in Australia.
Based on personal testimony, parliamentary transcripts, media reports and archival sources from the people involved - including Rodney Croome, Nick Toonen and Christine Milne - The Campaign chronicles Tasmania's journey from exclusion to inclusion, from opposition to acceptance, and from hatred to embrace.
From playwright Campion Decent (Unholy Ghosts, Three Winters Green), The Campaign won Best New Writing at the 2019 Tasmanian Theatre Awards.
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Seymour Centre presents The Campaign, an honest and raw retelling of the journey to repeal Australia's most archaic anti-gay legislation as part of the 2020 Sydney Mardi Gras Festival.
In 1988, more than 100 arrests were made at Hobart's popular Salamanca Market when the Tasmanian Gay Law Reform Group defied a ban to gather signatures on a petition to decriminalise sexual activity between consenting adult males in private.
The unprecedented and highly publicised arrests grew into Australia's largest-ever gay rights civil disobedience, which began a campaign to change the Tasmanian law - the most draconian in the Western world in terms of its penalty and, by the time of its repeal, the last of its kind in Australia.
Based on personal testimony, parliamentary transcripts, media reports and archival sources from the people involved - including Rodney Croome, Nick Toonen and Christine Milne - The Campaign chronicles Tasmania's journey from exclusion to inclusion, from opposition to acceptance, and from hatred to embrace.
From playwright Campion Decent (Unholy Ghosts, Three Winters Green), The Campaign won Best New Writing at the 2019 Tasmanian Theatre Awards.
Go see The Campaign - February 2020.
The Campaign - February 2020 is on 11 - 28 February 2020. The opening hours are: 7:00pm to 8:30pm. Conveniently located in Chippendale. Visit their website at https://www.seymourcentre.com/event/the-campaign/.
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