It’s a warm spring day sometime in September 1988. The Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group (TGLRG), as it was known in those days, is in the middle of a summer of protest at Salamanca Market all because a petition to decriminalise homosexuality is available to sign on a market stall. Hobart City Council objects, claiming the stall and the petition is an “affront to decency” and that “homosexuals are not welcome at Hobart’s family market”. That’s how I remember it. I arriv