Tue 23 Feb · 6pm
State Library of New South Wales · Sydney
people who lived the marriage equality fight, looking back a decade on
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This Mardi Gras, as we approach a decade of marriage equality in Australia, hear from people whose lives and work were shaped by the campaign as they reflect on what that time meant to them and how Australia has, or hasn’t, changed since.
Libraries and archives preserve the records of social change. Through a series of reflections, this event returns to the experiences behind those records and explores how we remember pivotal moments while they remain within living memory.
Image credit: Marching for Marriage Equality Now, Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia, 7 November 2015 / photograph by Maylei Hunt
Patrick Abboud
Patrick (Pat) Abboud is a three-time Walkley Award–winning journalist, filmmaker and presenter, founder of Only Human Productions and partner at Dreamchaser Studio. He is co-creator and host of hit podcast The Greatest Menace: Inside the Gay Prison Experiment, and his documentaries have earned more than 40 international awards. His acclaimed films include Surviving Gaza, Seeking Truth (2026), Unsettled (2025) and Gayrabia (2024). Raised by Palestinian and Lebanese parents, Pat lives in Sydney with his family.
Liz Duck-Chong
Liz Duck-Chong is a writer, health researcher and peer worker whose essays and non-fiction have been published widely, including in Crikey, Meanjin, Scarleteen, Overland, The Guardian, Archer Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, Rabbit, Kill Your Darlings and Junkee. She was the lead writer and developer of TransHub from 2019 to 2023, and is…
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When is In living memory: Reflections on marriage equality?
Tue 23 Feb 2027, 6pm.
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State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.
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