ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how sacred imagery and ritual are used by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT or queer) in their struggles against homophobia and heterosexualism. To promote the acceptance of homosexuality, same-sex relationships and gender variance, LGBT movements have constructed identities to mobilize and empower existing communities of non-heterosexual people and to create new ones where none existed. Identity transformation, commitment, cultural change and fluidity have been identified with the phenomena of quasi-religions. The queer community at the University of Queensland campus first organized itself as Campus Camp in the very early 1970s. Since that time, and with several name changes, it operated as a club affiliated with the Students Union, which provided limited funding and other resources. It must be pointed out that these inner rooms could only be accessed from the original room, not directly from the outside, and this gave them a sense of privacy, almost of sacred space.
