Law Reform
The LGBTI Legal Service includes a law reform division who investigate and determine areas within the LGBTIQA+ community that require change. The division has two main focus areas which include the development of community resources (fact sheets, legal toolkits, law reform submissions and reports) and law reform via parliamentary submissions. The LGBTI Legal Service welcomes the opportunity to make submissions on relevant matters that affect the LGBTIQA+ community. As a service that specifically caters to the LGBTIQA+ community, the Service has the expertise and is uniquely qualified to advocate on behalf of the community. All of our law reform projects are completed through the scope of the LGBTIQA+ community and are completed by undertaking large amounts of research as well as liaising with various key stakeholders in the community.
Past and present areas of law reform include:
- Expunging past criminal convictions for consensual homosexual relationships
- The ‘homosexual advance’ factor of the provocation defence
- Supporting LGBTIQA+ students in school and university
- Advocating for the rights of LGBTIQA+ families through surrogacy and adoption reform
- Unequal age of consent in Queensland
- Ending domestic violence and supporting victims
Current legal toolkits, submissions and legal fact sheet can be found under the Resources section of this website.
The Service is proud to advocate for the community through these avenues and continues to fight to amend or remove all existing discriminatory laws.