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Nationwide Equal Marriage Rallies

July 7th 2009 18:56
marriage equality


Demand Same Sex Marriage Equality August 1st

Perth:
WA Community Forum on Relationship recognition Saturday August 1st 2:00pm to 5:00PM, University of Western Australia UWA

Families for Freedom and Community Support Day
Sunday 16th of August, 11:00am to 2:00pm

Cottesloe Foreshore, WA

Really Long Link or Keegan Martens
martek01@student.uwa.edu.au 0424 594 417
Really Long Link

Sydney:
Rally at Town Hall from Saturday, 12pm and March to the Sydney Convention Centre at Darling Harbour for a mass illegal wedding ceremony and to protest outside the National Labor Conference, demanding the Rudd government repeal the ban on Same Sex Marriage.

For more information, to get involved or to get married please call Ben Cooper
0412325231, email at ben8721@hotmail.com or check out
www.caah.org.au/nda
Really Long Link

Lismore – Northern NSW:
Rally at 12pm, Saturday August 1st starts at Spinks Park aka Lismore Transit Centre, Molesworth St and March to the Winsome Hotel, Bridge St North Lismore where an after party will be held from 1:30pm

For more info or to get involved call Sean Rich 0266221555 between 9am & 5pm or alternatively email at scrawny_seany@hotmail.com or check out Really Long Link


Canberra:
Meet at Garema Place, 1pm on August 1st, where there will be a rally followed by a march to Bob McMullen's office.

For more information or to get involved please check out www.cuaction.org/ or contact

John Kloprogge act@equallove.info 0422 913 942

Brisbane:
The Brisbane rally will be held at 1pm on August 1st at Queens Park.

To get involved, please email jessicapayne86@hotmail.com or call 0430375326. You can also check out the website at www.arcg.com.au

Adelaide:
The Adelaide rally is hosted by the South Australian Queer Lobby
Meet at Parliament House, corner of North Terrace and King William St, Adelaide, at 11am.
We will hold a demonstration at Parliament House, and then march to Barr Smith Lawns, University of Adelaide, where we will hold a picnic/bbq and speeches.
There will also be an after-party at Mars Bar.

To get involved or for more information phone Jason Virgo 0432 694 680 or email: saqueerlobby@gmail.com

Melbourne:
This year’s rally is on August 1st from 1pm at Federation Square

For more information, to get involved or to get married, please visit www.equallove.info or contact Tim Wright directly contact@equallove.info
0400 967 233

Hobart:
The Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (TGLRG) will rally and be launching a petition for Equal Same-Sex Marriage at their Salamanca stall at 11am on Saturday August 1st.

For further information and to get involved please visit www.tglrl.org.au or email rodney.croome@tglrg.org or call 0409 010 668
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Rainbow Report on Homophobia

April 30th 2009 00:40
Homophobia
Graphic: BBC

This week Thu Apl 30 7-8pm AEST Joy 94.9 Melbourne, streaming live at www.joy.org.au The Rainbow Report looks at Homophobia.

Mention IDAHO to most people, and they think you’re talking about a US State that’s famous for potatoes and not much else. And no, it’s not the one where same-sex couples started marrying this week – that’s IOWA.

But our IDAHO is the International Day Against Homophobia, which is getting to be quite a big deal overseas but to date, Australia’s contribution has been pretty feeble. Greg Adkins hopes that’ll change this year – he joins us in the studio to explain what’s happening in Melbourne and how you can join in and have some fun.

We’re often accused of seeing homophobia where it doesn’t really exist, but is it magnifying the effect of the recession for some of us? Some of the first things companies drop to save money are gay-supportive initiatives and gay and lesbian staff. Harley Dennett of the Sydney Star Observer has the story.

Despite the name, Queensland could fairly be described as a homophobic state. with no relationship recognition, or recognition for same sex parents. The age of consent seems equal at 16, but anal intercourse with anyone under 18 is a criminal offence under a 1990 "sodomy law”. GLBTI Queenslanders have been campaigning its repeal, but back in October the Queensland government made it tougher instead. Miles Heffernan from QNews tells us all about it.

Joining me in the studio tonight, the feisty snappy-dressing co-convenor of the Victorian Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby, Hayley Conway; the man who lobbies the pollies on our behalf, Corey Irlam, with his response to the government’s response to the 2020 summit – anyone remember that? Seems a long long time ago. And Cathy Anderson, one of the Lesbians On The Loose at LOTL magazine.

And finally Kaye Sera pays tribute to Golden Girl Bea Arthur, who died last week. I was hoping she’d say something about swine flu, so I could do an intro about a pig in a poke bonnet, but you can’t have everything.

Don’t just sit there, we love to put your views to air too, so please agree, disagree, argue, praise, whatever by emailing onair@joy.org.au - text 0427 JOY 949, or call 9699 2949.
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Homos Away in Summer Bay storm

March 29th 2009 05:28
Stormy weather
"Take the lesbian below, Mr Christian!"


Two female characters snogging in a disposable bit of moving wallpaper called ‘Home & Away’ created a tsunami of manufactured outrage last week, redoubled when Channel 7 ‘caved in’ and censored the lezzo liplock.

First a pseudo-Christian nano-group decried the promotion of homosexuality, then gay groups leaped in berating the TV station for its spineless capitulation. Channel 7’s publicity department must be creaming their jeans.

The two soapy characters are called Charlie and Joey, a policewoman and a trawler deckhand: subtle hints that these two ladies might have interests other than those motivating the rest of the women in Summer Bay.

With jobs like that they ought to be quite strong, but their clingy singlets reveal no hint of the muscles needed to haul in nets full of prawns, or subdue determined criminals. And surely their attractively tousled shoulder length manes would be a safety hazard? Not to mention those nails . . . .

No, Charlie and Joey are fantasy porno-lezzos, the sort Mr Hetero imagines sliding between for a hot night of conversion therapy.

Not that the show is exactly a beacon of social realism anyway. Summer Bay is very bleached-blond, Anglo-Saxon and heterosexual – dubbed into German it would have been all the rage in 1940’s Berlin.

It’s annoying to find oneself forced to defend this sort of stereotypical trash, especially when the whole story is just a media beat-up.

The only person truly ‘outraged’ by Charlie and Joey was one Angela Conway, the ‘spokeswoman’ for a previously little-known organisation “Pro Family Perspectives”. Ms Conway is also a leading member of the Australian Family Association, the National Civic Council, and the Festival of Light – all minuscule Christian front groups who big-note themselves with grandiose names, when in reality they are just threadbare Australian glove-puppets spouting the shop-worn bigotry of their American parent organisations.

Conway complained of the sexualisation of the storylines in Home and Away. Clearly teen romance, stalking, unplanned pregnancy, elopement and illicit affairs don’t count. Either that or she doesn’t watch the show.

I don’t watch the show either. In the words of a close friend, I am ‘not the target market’. So why should I care?

In the first place, I detest censorship, of which there is already far too much in Australian television. Programs you would see around 8.30 pm in any civilised country are here banished to the small hours or to pay TV. And if Senator Conroy gets his way, there’s soon to be even more censorship, this time of the internet.

Secondly, a million Australians, not to mention millions more around the world, do watch Home and Away. The program is particularly popular with young people. Even a soft-focus, unrealistic, depiction of love between two members of the same sex would be an improvement on complete invisibility.

Though for a really good storyline, I reckon the producers ought to pop Alf Stewart into Xavier Austin’s bed. Now that really would be worth talking about!
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Diversity Matters

March 1st 2009 21:43
Doug Pollard at BIFB ChillOut Prize
On my soapbox


Text of the speech I gave yesterday at the awarding of the second ChillOut Photography Prize, in association with the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, at the Novotel Forest Resort, Creswick.
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Allegro Non Troppo Sunday 11-1

September 27th 2008 08:49
This weekend I’ll be taking the Addam Stobbs seat on Allegro Non Troppo, Sunday 11.00am – 1.00pm. Although I’m not exactly ‘musical’, Addams longtime co-presenter Peter Fortey and producer Robert Brierley assure me they’ll get me through the first hour.

In the second hour, produced by Bianca Johnston, I’ll be looking at the issue of aged care for gay and lesbian seniors. A recent report by the Matrix Guild and Vintage men painted a disturbing picture of the situation for the retired members of our community and those approaching retirement


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Should Jeff Kennett Apologise?

July 27th 2008 22:37
I wrote about this yesterday.

The story also made Channel 7 news last night


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Tonight on the Rainbow Report

July 24th 2008 06:51
Joy 94.9 FM
I have a cold/bug thingy, so the show will be hosted tonight by Tim Newton 7-8pm AEST Joy 94.9FM if you're in Melbourne Australia, streaming live at www.joy.org.au. Podcast available in a day or so from the Joy website.

Joining Tim in the studio tonight we have Demetra Giannkopoulos, co-convenor of the Victorian Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby, which is planning another Equal Love Rally on August 3


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