Watch Queerstralia

It's the Bicentenary. Expo 88. Australia's stepping onto the world stage. As the 20th century closes, Australia presents itself as strong, prosperous, confident, egalitarian and reconciled. But not everyone is welcome in the picture.

This episode documents the ways that queers have had their identities defined and shaped, at first by others, increasingly by themselves.

Queers have been defined by our relationship with The Law. Outlawed, persecuted, driven underground, for centuries we were criminalised from birth.