Julie McCrossin

Julie McCrossin

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. [Citation
title =Being gay is no hurdle for media star
newspaper =GayNet.com.au
url =http://www.gaynet.com.au/news/archive/STORY-99.HTM
accessdate=2007-07-09 ]

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 " [ Self-published pamphlet, Sydney, archived at Takver's Australian Anarchism history page [http://www.takver.com/history/womyn.htm Women, wimmin, womyn, womin, whippets ] "] 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.

References

External links

* [http://www.juliemccrossin.com/index.htm Official website]
* [http://www.geocities.com/tangawarra/juliewri.html Selection of columns] from the "Australian Financial Review"


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