'Teaching the poofters to swim': The gay-hate murder that changed laws and lives
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This story discusses violence against LGBTIQ+ people. Half a century after the unsolved murder of a gay man in Adelaide, a performance at Sydney's Opera House tells the story of the killing and how its aftermath proved a catalyst for South Australia becoming the first English-speaking state in the world to decriminalise homosexuality. Dr George Ian Duncan drowned after being thrown from a footbridge into Adelaide's River Torrens by a group of men on May 10, 1972.