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On my first day at school I was severely admonished for hugging my mate who was crying. Nobody taught me that gays existed and that I might have a loving relationship with another male. By the time I was 14 I had discovered the word “homosexual” and I knew that word applied to me. I also read in the papers that homosex was illegal and that I could be put in jail for doing it. And I was doing it. So I was traumatised. I had to do a lot of therapy to heal this trauma. Discrimination against gays is violence. Expecting us to adopt heteronormative values is violence. To deny us the right of a specific status is violence. So I want “gay” to be legitimised as a status in all Commonwealth laws as a step to healing the violence perpetrated against us. To support this status I want the Government to endorse and act on the Yogyakarta Principles. Some of the cultural changes necessary to effect this status being integrated into society and thereby increasing social capital are challenging. A monogamous gay relationship cannot produce children. Integrating that reality will trigger denied fear of death in a lot of people – including gays. We do not produce a family for whom we have to be the bread-winner: we’ve “got it easy”. That view produces a lot of repressed jealousy. And now we can speak the love that dared not speak its name. That produces a lot of nasty emotional expressions in a lot of people. So I want the Commonwealth Government to allocate health funding to help people deal with the emotional issues that the integration of gays into our society on the basis of an established status might produce. And I want health funding to treat the post-traumatic stress of gays who were “pressured to conceal, suppress or deny their sexual orientation”. I also want the Commonwealth Government to provide funding for education, at all levels, about “the functions of emotion, feeling and caring in relationships” as recommended in the report of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships (22 November 1977). I want the Commonwealth Government to allocate specific funding for education at all levels about the legitimacy of same-sex relationships. And as a focus for all this healing I want an apology for the violence perpetrated against us to be instituted by the Commonwealth Government. 4 Nov 2010 `abnoqГсБ > ? ] Л Н † Ъ ъ +-@AGLrsVpЛЩЪ\]y˜ћќ&'Z[\^2<>{|ЁЂѓъхнѓйвЫвФвФРФЙВРВРВРВРВРВЫВЫВЋЄЫЋВЋЫЋЋЋЫЄЋЄЫЄ™й’ hT€hT€hƒ.З hT€h™Dƒ hT€hƒ.З hT€hРgћ hT€hTxU hT€h‡ ˜hЙ4 hT€hŒ:ц hT€hf6^ hT€hnЃhT€hT€hT€5 hT€5hT€5CJaJhT€hT€5CJaJ4abopqьэ  ? @ Н О P Q јљ]^^_ђттеееШШШШШШШШШЛШШШеШ „.ћ„Шћ]„.ћ^„ШћgdЙ4 „.ћ„Шћ]„.ћ^„ШћgdnЃ „.ћ„Шћ]„.ћ^„Шћgd™Dƒ$„.ћ„Шћ]„.ћ^„Шћa$gdT€ „.ћ„Шћ]„.ћ^„ШћgdT€Ђў_ыь{|}~Ђђђђђђђх „.ћ„Шћ]„.ћ^„ШћgdT€ „.ћ„Шћ]„.ћ^„ШћgdnЃ21h:pT€А‚. 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