Here, 78ers Peter de Waal and Robyn Kennedy look back on the stigma they faced and why events like Mardi Gras still matter today. Australia in the 1970s saw gay and lesbian life go public, with. Peter 'Bon' Bonsall-Boone, was a pioneer for LGBTI rights for decades. Together with his partner Peter de Waal they were fearless community activists. Bon's.
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78'ers from the first Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Peter de Waal, right, and Robyn Plaister. Photograph: Glenn Campbell/AAP. The NRL and the NSW Teachers' Federation are among those reportedly. Peter de Waal (1938-) Peter's early childhood was spent in Nazi-occupied Holland and he emigrated to Australia as an 18 year old. In 1970, he and his partner Peter Bonsall-Boone joined CAMP. In 1972, they appeared together on an ABC program about gay and lesbian life in Australia, which resulted in Peter Bonsall-Boone being fired from his job. One of the original '78ers' who took part in Sydney's inaugural Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Peter de Waal is one of Australia's pre-eminent LGBT activists. P. Gay rights activist and Mardi Gras 78er Peter de Waal reflects on being a 1970 CAMP (Campaign Against Moral Persecution) foundation member at the beginning o.
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Peter Bonsall-Boone,. Bonsall-Boone was a lifelong Christian who lost his job as a church secretary after appearing with de Waal in 1972 on the documentary series Chequerboard. During that. He's survived by his partner of 50 years, Peter de Waal. Speakers at the funeral service at Ashfield Uniting Church in Sydney thanked Bon for his decades of LGBTI activism and volunteer work, for which he received a posthumous Order of Australia honour this month. "My beloved Bon had many wonderful attributes," de Waal told the memorial. Peter Bonsall-Boone sits bathed in sunlight in the front room of the Balmain home he shares with his partner Peter de Waal, who is busy working in the kitchen. Photographs of loved ones line one. Committed to the cause and each other. In 1972, appearing on the ABC documentary Chequerboard, Peter 'Bon' Bonsall-Boone and Peter de Waal kissed, reportedly becoming the first male same-sex couple to do so on Australian television. 1 Peter de Waal and Peter Bonsall-Boone, St Kilda, October 1966, 1966 Unknown artist.
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Bonsell-Boone was in a relationship with his partner Peter de Waal for over five decades. Last year the couple celebrated their 50th anniversary. The couple first got together in the spring of 1966, and through their life they've fought for their rights and recognition under the law. Bonsall-Boone was a lifelong Christian. Peter Bonsall-Boone and Peter de Waal[/caption] Peter and Bon's trailblazing campaigning and support for their community continued throughout decades of hard-won social change. The couple met in Melbourne in 1966, and Bon said it was "love at first sight". Homosexuality was against the law in those days, but despite the risks involved.
MARRIAGE equality advocate Peter Bonsall-Boone passed away earlier today, according to recent reports. Earlier this year he and his partner of fifty years Peter de Waal urged the government to. Peter De Waal AM is an author, gay history documenter, researcher, life-long activist, and "78er" having participated in the first Mardi Gras in 1978. Narelda Jacobs has worked at Network Ten since 2000 and spent 19 years in the Perth newsroom before heading to Sydney where she co-hosts Studio 10 and presents 10 News First Perth.
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