A documentary experience that explores the links between anti-LGBTQI lobbyists, politicians and organisations.
## About This Game
There are highly organised, well-connected, well-funded, secretive
organisations using Christianity as a smokescreen and LGBTQI people as a focus
for fear, uncertainty and doubt, in order to wield hidden influence on the
social and democratic fabric of Australia.
A Clever Label is a documentary experience that enables audiences to
unearth hidden connections between anti-equality lobbyists, senior Australian
politicians and international organisations. Unlike a traditional documentary
with a fixed narrative and one-way communication, Documentary host Michela
Ledwidge invites audiences to independently follow threads that intrigue them
to form their own conclusions.
At the height of the Safe Schools debate in 2016 queer trans woman Michela
Ledwidge walked past a rally at Town Hall where 15-year old children spoke of
the suicide of one of their classmates. This is the week when Australian
politicians used parliamentary privilege to equate homosexuality with
paedophilia. Michela felt shame at her own ignorance on the debate and
wondered why the Australian religious right had such a hold over a supposedly
secular society like Australia. She set out to explore the links between anti-
LGBTQI lobbyists, senior Australian politicians and international
organisations based in the US. Her idea – use the new medium of Virtual
Reality to create a space in where complex issues could be explored and
digested. In the process she shines a spotlight on decades of rarely reported
research that documents the rise of the Australian religious right and on key
questions that cut to the heart of our democracy. Who supports these groups?
What motivates our politicians? How do echo chambers impact our ability to
understand complex issues? Using the Australian Christian Lobby as a starting
point, Michela literally “plays” with the data, exploring the literal and
figurative threads of financial and political influence on LGBTQI politics as
she explores the hidden sources and motivations behind anti-equality
messaging. A Clever Label asks the questions and challenges the audience to
seek out their own conclusions on some of Australia’s most polarizing issues.
A Clever Label