*Age Of Consent & Legal Sexual Activity for the State of
5th May 2006 Email to Premier
Peter Beattie (with C.c. to Attorney General Linda Lavarch and the Editor of
the Courier Mail) referring to Mr. Beattie’s appearance on ABC Television’s evening
news in which he stated that he had been asked to comment on the inaugural Civil
Union of two women which was performed that day in the British Embassy,
Brisbane. Mr. Beattie stated that he supported equal treatment for gays and lesbians,
but did not support gay marriage. In my email I remind the Premier that his
refusal to enact an equal age of consent in
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Original Message -----
From: John
Frame
Cc: cmletters@qnp.newsltd.com.au
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Sent:
Subject: Premier Beattie says gays should be
treated equally - let's start with youth.
To the Hon
Premier Mr Peter Beattie
(C.C
Attorney General Linda Lavarch, Editor of Courier Mail)
Dear Mr
Beattie,
On the ABC
Television News tonight,
I remind
you that you persist in ensuring that gay and bisexual men CANNOT be
treated with equity in
True social
equity is only possible when the law allows it and all
I would
like to know how you personally justify allowing gay and bisexual youth to
remain at increased risk of HIV infection, assault, drug and alcohol abuse and
suicide (all likely consequences of the current law) - especially
when we know that you are on public record, as Chair of the 1990 PCJC Report on
Homosexual Law reform, as being in favour of an equal age of consent (as per
the Committee's "Recommendation 7").
In July
2005 Queensland AntiDiscrimination Commissioner Susan Booth wrote to you
recommending that the law ought to be reformed as a matter of urgency - and
surely that's the only moral thing to do.
When may we
expect to see age of consent reform in action?
Yours sincerely,
John Frame
presenter of Queer Radio www.queerradio.org -
full age of consent equity campaign details are at www.queerradio.org/AgeOfConsent.htm
on community radio 4ZZZ fm102.1 Brisbane, Australia
Ph: 07 3350 1562 / 0409 501 561
Post: 82 Main Avenue, Wavell Heights 4012, QLD, Australia.
----"There
is no substitute for equality"----