Watch: Kevin Rudd Shuts Down Pastor on Gay Marriage Topic
Kevin Rudd eloquently defends same sex marriage in response to a pastor who brought up the topic at a Q&A on September 2nd, 2013.
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Protesters blockade anti-gay truck in New South Wales
Protesters blockaded an anti-gay marriage truck in Lismore, New South Wales on Saturday. The truck was defaced, covered in glitter, streamers and spray paint. One protester chained his neck to the truck and had to be released by the Police Rescue team.
From Fraser Coast Chronicle:
“On Saturday night the minister from Sydney parked his truck, which had billboard-sized anti-gay marriage messages on it, in Cathcart St before heading to a nearby motel to sleep.
He returned the next morning to find the truck defaced and blockaded.
Cars were parked at both ends of the truck and Lismore resident, Fairy Princess Amber, had locked her neck to the back of the truck.”
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A photo by Minus18 to promote the International Day Against Homophobia. Minus18 is the largest melbourne hangout for gay teens. The organization honsts dance parties and events in Melbourne.
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Australia is first to recognize ‘non-specified’ gender
Australia may have made gender history this week, as the New South Wales government lays claim to being the first in the world to recognize an individual’s sex as officially “not specified”.
The NSW government in Australia has issued what is believed to be the world’s first ‘Sex Not Specified’ Recognised Details Certificate in place of a birth certificate. Norrie (also known as norrie mAy-Welby) is legally recognized as neither male nor female according to the Australian government.
Originally Norrie, 48, was born in Scotland and registered as male at birth. At age 23 Norrie commenced sex and gender conversion to female through hormone and construction of a vagina and was then issued with a gender recognition certificate as female in Australia.
But this did not work out for Norrie as zie (gender-neutral pronoun) did not feel comfortable living solely as a female so zie ceased lifelong hormone treatment and took up a neuter identity which is neither male nor female, resisting any further female or male normalisation.
(Full story: The Scavenger)
Australian Senate Rejects Gay Marriage Bill
The Australian senate has rejected a gay marriage bill on Thursday, with a 45 to 5 vote.
Over one-third of the senators were absent for the voting because they felt uncomfortable with their party’s policies that supported marriage equality.
Read the full story at The Age »
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‘It’s a little bit Brokeback Mountain’: TV commentators accused over gay skating jibes
A pair of Australian TV sports commentators are in hot water after making allegedly homophobic remarks about male ice skaters at the Winter Olympics.
Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy’s comments include describing routines as 'Brokeback Mountain’ exercises and even joked about organisers being shocked at discovering one skater was not gay.
They then added the non-gay skater was unlikely to be controversial and flamboyant U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir - because he wore a black and pink outfit while holding a heart-shaped cushion.
(Full story DailyMail.co.uk)