Sexuality, to paraphrase the awesome Australian philosopher Michael
Leunig, is where we are most human and vulnerable, and therefore where
there are the most taboos. For me, the flag of sexuality is profound.
We live in a world that is, by and large, built upon apartheids of
sexuality. I think gender and sexuality assigned identity is a great
fiction and self-deception. The injustice built into apartheids of
sexuality is deep. I am against paranoid sexuality, which seeks to
dominate through ideology, religion and the state. I see sexuality
like Martine Rothblatt, who writes: “Sex is even much more malleable
than race as individualised as our fingerprints.”
Archbishop
Tutu, the apartheid of homosexuality, and being human
This contains an introduction to and the transcript of Baden's interview with
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate, while Tutu was in Sydney to receive
the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999. The interview took place at the Observatory Hotel.
Homosexual
Rights as Human Rights: Activism in Indonesia, Singapore and Australia
The Australian Public Intellectual site hosting a review and details
of Baden's 2003 book.
The Apartheid of Homosexuality -
media report
Issues discussed in Baden Offord's meeting with
Desmond Tutu.
The Apartheid of Homosexuality -
article
The issues and problems facing homosexuals are also experienced across
culture, race, health, law, ethnicity, politics, religion and economics.
For all kinds of reasons and in all kinds of ways, homosexuality has
become a marker of the final years of the twentieth century. And it
defies borders - it does not matter from which part of the world you
take a look, whether in Asia or Africa, the Americas, Europe or the
Middle East, homosexuality has currency at an international level not
witnessed before.