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Oral histories help piece together story of LGBTQIA+ activism and attitudes in WA

Ian Walker remembers using a fax machine as a form of protest to push for better HIV research and treatment. (Supplied: State Library of WA)

When Ian Walker was a young man growing up in Perth, he lived something of a double life to protect himself from attitudes that not only disapproved of homosexuality — but criminalised it. 

"Back then it was illegal to be gay and you were still considered to have a mental health disorder," Mr Walker said.

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