Marilyn McCormack

Marilyn (Pittman) McCormack

"STATEMENT REGARDING ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS"

In April 1986 several hundred attendees of The Broad Left Conference in Melbourne signed an add in the National Times "STATEMENT REGARDING ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS".

Signatories included Marilyn McCormack.

CPA Gay Collective

In the 1980s Geoff Evans was aware of gay activists in the CPA – Lance Gowland, Brian McGahen. Evans then became organiser for the Sydney District of the CPA. He was interested in supporting communists in the gay movement and the CPA Sydney Branch had formed a homosexual collective. Geoff joined the group to provide support for a central human rights struggle, but as a straight man. His friend and housemate, Marilyn McCormack and Kim Back, an ex-lover were members, plus Lance Gowland, Brian McGahen, Barry Power, Graham Chuck and Peter Murphy. The collective was relatively small – about 8 – 10 people. It discussed politics in the gay movement, sexism among gay men, the politics of lesbian separatism. Perhaps Joyce Stevens, Margo Moore attended – there was an overlap between the gay and women’s collectives.