Julie McCrossin

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Julie McCrossin (born 1954, Sydney) is an Australian radio broadcaster, journalist, comedian and campaigner for women's and gay rights. She was a weekly participant from 1996 to 2001 on the television program Good News Week, and hosted Radio National's Life Matters program from 2000 to 2005 (2000 to 2003 co-hosted with Geraldine Doogue). She has two children with her partner Melissa Gibson.[1]

She was involved with the 1978 protests that became the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and has advocated for the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia. In 1981 she published Women, wimmin, womyn, womin, whippets-On Lesbian Separatism [2] a critique of some aspects of the feminist separatist movement of the day from an anarcho-feminist perspective, this pamphlet is significant in the the history of anarchism in Australia.

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  1. ^ “Being gay is no hurdle for media star”, GayNet.com.au, <http://www.gaynet.com.au/news/archive/STORY-99.HTM>. Retrieved on 9 July 2007 
  2. ^ Self-published pamphlet, Sydney, archived at Takver's Australian Anarchism history page Women, wimmin, womyn, womin, whippets

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