Equal Love (28-11-2009): Harassed by the Police
Channel: JessicaMarks1968
Date: 2011-11-30

In order to raise awareness about the issue of same-sex marriage, and in order to boost public support for this important human rights reform, LGBTI rights activists decided to take a rally directly to the people. Before the official Equal Love rally was to occur at the State Library, a small group of activists decided to march directly into the Melbourne Central and Queen Victoria shopping complexes, handing out leaflets to customers and shoppers alike, chanting loudly, causing a disruption to business as usual, and just generally causing a fuss so that people paid attention to the issue of gay rights and equal marriage. However, the police obviously weren't impressed -- as soon as we got out of the shopping complex, back out onto the streets, heading up to the State Library, they arrived and began harassing us. For shame!