Australian Council on Lesbian and Gay Rights spokesman Brian Greig said Ms Moylan was promoting a 1950s argument that people could be recruited into homosexuality. In May a House of Representatives standing committee report said sexually confused young people were at a higher risk of suicide. The campaign is the first in Australia to link youth suicide and sexuality and follows a parliamentary report identifying them as being at risk of suicide. The poster was due to published in youth market magazines this week. The advertisement said sexually confused young people went through a difficult time.
Many young people feel the same.
You are not alone. Ms Moylan said the AIDS Council agreed the campaign needed wide community acceptance to work. Our primary concern has to be saving young lives and that means that community has to come to a better understanding about the issues that give rise to suicide among young people.