Glcsnsw.org.au
Title
Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service of NSW Home
Description
Our Mission:
GLCS is a volunteer based organisation providing short term counselling, information and support services to facilitate healthy well adjusted lives within the lesbian, gay and related communities.
Our History:
In Sydney in late 1970, a smallish group of homosexual women and men who were sick and tired of being discriminated against by the law, the churches, families, employers and "friends" formed The Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP) - what is now the Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service of New South Wales.
CAMP's aims were to get reforms to the Crimes Act. At that time, this legislation meant that a man trying to pick up another man could be sent to trial and sentenced to 14 years penal servitude. The Police Offences and Summary Offences Acts also meant that women showing affection in public could be charged under one or other of these Acts. Women's rights, in the broadest sense, especially abortion under proper medical control (then illegal under the Crimes Act) were the other issues of great concern.
