Healing The Hate

In 1989, a small town on the North-West Coast of Tasmania made headlines after the media dubbed it the “most homophobic town” in Australia. At the time, Tasmania was in the grips of a fierce debate about whether to decriminalise homosexual acts. Anti-gay rallies sprang up across the state but the first, biggest and most infamous was held at the Ulverstone Civic Centre. Three decades later, two women decided that was the place where they wanted to get married.