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}} | recognition_of_relationships = Civil partnerships (February–June 2012) Registered relationships (June 2012–present) | recognition_of_relationships_restrictions = Same-sex marriage prohibited under federal law since 2004; see Same-sex marriage in Australia | adoption = No (foster parenting allowed) | discrimination_protections = Yes (since 2002 under state law and 2013 under federal law) |}} Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) residents in the Australian state of Queensland have some of the same rights as other non-LGBT Queenslanders. Queensland has a reputation as Australia's most socially conservative state and as a result LGBT rights have historically been politically polarised - the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party have supported the decriminalisation of homosexual sex and anti-discrimination protections since 1981, while the socially conservative Liberal National Party of Queensland has been more hostile. ==Laws regarding homosexuality== As with other British colonies, Queensland originally derived its criminal law from the United Kingdom. This included the prohibition of "buggery" and "gross indecency" between males. Similarly to the United Kingdom, lesbian behaviour was never criminalised under Queensland law.〔 The release of the Wolfenden Report in the United Kingdom in 1957 marked the beginning of a change in official attitudes in the Anglosphere, with its recommendation that homosexuality be decriminalised. Homosexual sex was legalised in England and Wales in 1967.〔 While other states in Australia began to liberalise their anti-homosexuality laws in the 1970s and 1980s, Queensland was ruled by the socially conservative National Party of Joh Bjelke-Petersen.〔 His government refused to countenance changes to the law, describing gay people as "child molesters" and "perverts".〔 At this time government policy was hostile; the Education Department refused to hire the openly gay teaching graduate George Weir and in 1985 the government passed an amendment to the ''Liquor Act'' making it an offence for publicans to serve alcohol to "perverts, deviants, child molesters and drug users" or to allow them to remain on licensed premises.〔 The anti-homosexuality laws were enforced by police throughout the 1980s, including against men who were in same-sex relationships and were not aware that their private conduct was illegal.〔 The first major public demonstration in favour of decriminalisation occurred on 31 August 1989, when several hundred people demonstrated outside Parliament House in Brisbane.〔 The protests arose after five men from Roma were charged with a variety of anti-homosexuality offences. At the time the maximum penalty for "sodomy" was seven years in jail.〔 Opinion polls published by ''The Bulletin'' during that era suggested that while a majority of Queenslanders did not support equal rights for gay people, they thought that private homosexual conduct between consenting adults should be decriminalised.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LGBT rights in Queensland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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