In the TV series, “Community“, the local community college, Greendale, tries to come up with the perfect mascot. However, attempting to be all-inclusive, and in no way favourable towards any one ethnicity or gender, they create the simultaneously bland and creepy “Greendale Human”. To me, this is a pertinent response …
Apparently, there’s a new christian political party in town, the “Australian Christian Party”, and they mean to become the new third force in Australian politics. The Australian political system is historically comprised of two behemoths, the supposedly left-leaning Labor Party and the conservative Liberal/National coalition. Together at any given point …
The extreme right, bigots, bogans, and other suppressors of social advancement often spout the nonsense that gays, lesbians, transexuals, intersexed and bisexual folk are after special rights when we talk about sensitive issues, such as say, the right to marry. Since this is seemingly a really difficult concept to understand, I’ve …
Darren and I consider the start of our relationship proper to be 30 November 1996. That means as of today, as I type this post, we’ve been together for 5,506 days. Yet somehow, we don’t qualify for marriage. On the other hand: Sinead O’Connor announced today that her and her latest …
The Reverend Margaret Court, a former tennis player, and leader of a church in Perth, has today come out swinging against same-sex marriage, saying: “To dismantle this sole definition of marriage and try to legitimise what God calls abominable sexual practices that include sodomy, reveals our ignorance as to the …
Today the US government tied foreign aid to the level of treatment offered to the LGTBI population of countries, following in the footsteps of Great Britain. Predictably, the right wing politicians and fundamentalist religious types have been quick to condemn this. For instance, the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, condemned …
Yesterday, in an apparently historic move in Australia, the ALP voted at their national conference to amend their position on marriage such that it was no longer exclusively between a man and a woman. However, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, managed to carry the day with the proposition that any …
Australia, where we believe in a fair go for everyone! Well, unless you want to get married to someone of the same sex. Australia, where we believe in a fair go for all heterosexuals! (GLBTI are second classers.) Well, unless you’re an indigenous Australian under the auspice of the Northern …
There’s a plethora of standard arguments used as to why same-sex marriage shouldn’t be permitted. I want to quickly run them over with a bit of logic: Marriage is traditionally between a man and a woman. Actually, same-sex marriage was practiced in many parts of society, and indeed even the …
What makes me angry is this perceived requirement that we in the GBLTI community are meant to always be completely respectful of those who hold opposing views to ours. Yet in terms of our basic human rights and personal freedoms, we’re attacked by bigots who use religious freedoms and archaic …
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