Men's Health Australia

60 SECONDS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

DATE: December 2D, 1999, 8:15pm

EVENT: Writer and broadcaster BENJAMIN LAW comes out to his mum about his sexuality.

I GREW UP on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, the last mainland state in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality. That meant for a significant period of my life growing up, the adult that I would become was criminalised by the state. That stopped when I was a teenager, but that doesn't mean attitudes changed. The

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