Healing the hate: a story of love in what was the ‘most homophobic town' in Australia

Lachlan Bennett
Updated October 25 2018 - 3:19pm, first published October 20 2018 - 12:30am
TOWARDS EQUALITY: Sally Marks and Trish Bock invited LGBTI advocate Rodney Croome to their wedding at the Ulverstone Civic Centre. Picture: Lachlan Bennett / Roger Lovell
TOWARDS EQUALITY: Sally Marks and Trish Bock invited LGBTI advocate Rodney Croome to their wedding at the Ulverstone Civic Centre. Picture: Lachlan Bennett / Roger Lovell

In 1989, a small town on the North-West Coast of Tasmania made headlines after the media dubbed it the “most homophobic town” in Australia.

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Lachlan Bennett

Lachlan Bennett

Journalist

Lachlan Bennett is a journalist based in Burnie with an interest in politics, primary industries, transportation, tourism and the West Coast.

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