The Pink Ban

The Pink Ban was a strike action, taken by the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF), at Macquarie University due to the expulsion of a gay man from student housing.^[1][2]

The Pink Bans were a pivotal movement in Australian history, where labour union activism intersected with gay rights. This movement was primarily catalysed by the New South Wales branch of the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) in 1973, responding to the expulsion of a gay student, Jeremy Fisher, from Macquarie University, Sydney.