Bent TV's video: Bent TV: Quests By Community: Historic Challenges Jamie Gardiner OAM Human Rights Activist

Tonight, in the time we have, we hear from someone Who Was There! Jamie Gardiner OAM is a human rights activist, pioneer of Australia's LGBT rights movement and member of the Victorian LGBTI Taskforce. He is a vice-president of Liberty Victoria, Australia's longest serving organisation defending and extending civil and human rights. A graduate of the University of Melbourne and was a PhD student in Applied Mathematics at University College London. In 1972 he set up and became the first president of the UCL GaySoc, which played a key role in the National Union of Students' gay rights campaign in the early 1970s. While in London, Gardiner attended meetings of the newly formed Gay Liberation Front and the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. In 1973 Gardiner proposed and received support from the NUS to organise UCL's first Homosexuals in Education Conference. When Gardiner returned to Australia in 1974, he spearheaded the Homosexual Law Reform Coalition, a campaign to decriminalise consensual homosexual sex in the state of Victoria. In 1975 he took up a position as a mathematics lecturer at the Bendigo Institute of Technology and in the same year contributed to the first National Homosexual Conference in Melbourne. Following Homosexual Law Reform Coalition's campaign against offending laws in the late 1970s, Victoria partially decriminalised homosexuality in December 1980. Subsequently, Gardiner became involved in anti-discrimination legal reform and AIDS politics. This included co-founding the Victorian AIDS Council in the early 1980s. To find out more about Minus18 - Changing the Lives Of LGBTIQA+ Youth in Australia visit: https://www.Minus18.org.au/ To find out more about The Victorian Pride Centre visit: https://www.PrideCentre.org.au/ To find out more about Liberty Victoria visit: https://libertyvictoria.org.au/ Hosted by Ricki Spencer, who enjoys engaging with members of the communities she cares about, is a disabled Trans Community Sociologist, Secondary School Teacher, and is passionate in empowering the LGBTIQASB+ communities in Australia about the importance of making decisions about accessible health care options for trans affirming care. To find out more about Advance Care Planning Australia visit: https://www.AdvanceCarePlanning.org.au/ Advance Care Planning Australia is a national program funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, enabling Australians to make the best choices for their future health and care. To find out more about Elders Rights Advocacy (ERA) visit: https://elderrights.org.au/ For over 30 years, Elder Rights Advocacy has promoted the human rights of all older Victorians to receive safe, quality aged care. We provide information, advocacy, and social support to people seeking access to or using residential or in-home aged care services. Our service is free, confidential, and independent of government and aged care providers. To find out more about HAAG, Housing for Aged Action Group visit: https://www.OlderTenants.org.au/ Housing for the Aged Action group (HAAG) is a members based, community organisation, which focusses on representing the needs of older Victorians who are renting, in insecure housing, or in retirement housing. Seniors Rights Victoria advances the rights of older people and works to prevent elder abuse. visit: https://seniorsrights.org.au/ To find out more about Rainbow Door, a service of Switchboard Victoria. visit: https://www.rainbowdoor.org.au/ Rainbow Door is a free specialist LGBTIQA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Gender Diverse, Intersex, Queer, Asexual, BrotherBoys, SisterGirls) helpline providing information, support, and referral to all LGBTIQA+ Victorians, their friends and family. To find out more about Transgender Victoria - trans and gender diverse advocacy visit: https://tgv.org.au/ Visit: https://tgv.org.au/training To find out more about Minus18 - Changing the Lives Of LGBTIQA+ Youth in Australia visit: https://www.Minus18.org.au/ To find out more (and the latest) about The Victorian Pride Centre visit: https://www.PrideCentre.org.au/ visit: https://pridecentre.org.au/events/ visit: https://pridecentre.org.au/volunteer/ To find out how to listen to JOY 94.9 - LGBTIQA+ Community Media visit: https://joy.org.au/ To find a volunteering role, in Victoria, which fits in with your life visit: https://www.volunteer.vic.gov.au/ To find out more about Qtopia Sydney visit: https://qtopiasydney.com.au/