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Equal Marriage at Fed Sq Melbourne today

July 31st 2009 21:23
The Day will begin with the National Day Of Action Rally at 1pm at Federation Square, where you will enjoy entertainment from Katie Underwood, The Nymphs, Brad Schmidt & SuperGirly. This will also include speeches from Snt Sarah Hanson-Young, Liam Byrne from NUS, Robbie & Dan from Channel 9's Australia's Perfect Couple and many more.

We will then March up Swantson St, up Collins St ending on Spring St in front of the Registry Office, Old Treasury House at Approximately 2:40pm where we will conduct the mass ceremony.

You will then be serenaded by the acapella group The Nymps after which your ceremony will be conducted by Celebrant David Schneider.


We will be having our Offical Equal Love After party at 6pm at Libation Bar, 284 Sydney Road, Brunswick, which you are all most welcome to attend.

If wanting to participate in the Mass Ceremony please attend the Registry Desk at Federation Square which is on the right hand side of the main stage to confirm your attendance.

If Wanting to Volunteer Please arrive at the Main Stage by 12noon.


FEDERATION SQUARE

11:30am Mass Ceremony Registration Desk SET UP

12.00 Mass Ceremony Registration Open

12:00 Volunteers

12.45 pm Pre Entertainment Brad Schmidt & The Nymphs

1pm Official Start = Emcee’s Doug Pollard – Lulu McClatchy

1pm SuperGirly

Katie Underwood

Welcome to Country - Bryan Andy


Australian Marriage Equality – Tim Wright

Greens Snt Sarah Hanson-Young

Nation Union Of Students – Liam Byrne

The Nymphs

Rainbow Families - Felicity Marlowe

Robbie & Dan from Channel 9’s Australia's Perfect Couples

Katie Underwood & Matt

Union Pride - Sarah Rogan

Radical Women – Alison Thorne

Amnesty International – Tony Pitman

The Nymphs

Equal Love - Meighan Katz - Deputy Convener

Equal Love - Martin Baldock – Co-Convener

Instruction from March Captain - James Vigus

Brad Schmidt Mad Mad World

2:10 March Starts

REGISTRY OFFICE

2:40-2:50 Mass Wedding Old Treasury House

2:40 Snt Sarah Hanson-Young

2:42 The Nymphs

2:45 David Schneider

2:55 The Nymphs

3:00 Tim Wright

3:00 Ceremony Ends

Wrap Up 3:15



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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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Talking 'bout my generation

June 27th 2009 08:53
Mind the gap



There is a yawning gay generation gap. On my side we can remember when we could be jailed or subjected to forced psychiatric treatment just for existing. Our parents threw us out of home. We watched dozens of friends and hundreds of acquaintances die from an unknown illness while most people shrugged and said, why worry? It only kills faggots and junkies. We were always in a fight, and we still are.

On the other side stand you who were legal from the day you were born, whose parents never withdrew their love and support, who didn’t have to watch your friends die while the world looked on with indifference. For you, the big fights are over, and it’s just about the details. Chill.

There isn’t much communication across this gap. Fifty-somethings have for the most part given up being snubbed by twenty-somethings, and twenty-somethings tend to flee from us like nervous virgins, for fear they will be unable to resist our charms and wake up in chains in our dungeons. They should be so lucky!

But thanks to this column, and my radio program, I get to hear first hand some of the thoughts and opinions of people of younger generations, through online feedback. For example,on my Facebook page I recently expressed my frustration with the governments stance on same sex marriage.

“Why are you in such a rush?” asked one young man. “Why all this fuss over a bit of paper most people don’t want anyway? We’ve made incredible strides in just one generation, from persecuted minority to near-equality. The rest will all fall in to place quite naturally in 15 or 20 years time.”

I have a couple of problems with that. Firstly, it’s already taken too long to get this far. Equality is almost within our grasp. It would be lazy and foolish to settle for second class status now. Some countries say a woman is worth 50 cows, others say 100 goats, some say half a man. We’re a little better off than that, but why should I tolerate being valued at 90% of a heterosexual for the next 20 years?

Secondly I may not even be alive in 2030, although with a bit of luck, and some major breakthroughs in medical science, I suppose I might be. With plastic surgery, a transgenic pig heart, and a new set of balls grown from my own stem cells, I might even find a third career as a Michael Jackson lookalike. And as I stand at the altar to finally marry my husband, part of me (one of the original bits) will probably enjoy the irony that at last I am considered 100% human.

And finally, marriage is only a happy ending in fairy tales. There’ll still be more to do. There are a lot of people – especially lesbians, it seems - who want something more than traditional marriage. Or something different altogether.

For myself, I’ll be happy to settle for equality. But not for anything less.

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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.

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Rainbow Report on Centrelink

April 22nd 2009 05:38
Australian Gay Flag
Advance Australia Pink


If you're retrenched, will you still be eligible for benefit?
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Rainbow Report on Community

April 9th 2009 01:55
Pride Flag Manchester

Our topic on the Rainbow Report tonight is community – what exactly is this thing we call ‘the gay and lesbian community? Does it really exist? And if it does, then what does it want?

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Tonight on the Rainbow Report 20/11

November 20th 2008 00:20
Fiona Patten
Fiona Patten, leader of the Australian Sex Party

We continue our roundup of candidates for the post of Mayor with Will Fowles, the non-Labour Labour-ish candidate, offering what he calls a “Fresh Vision” for the city.

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Rainbow Report Tonight

August 28th 2008 05:31
Finally back from holidays and the usual mad scramble to put a show together - and so much to talk about with . . .
Rainbow Lorikeet

Senator Louise Pratt


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"Most evil" HIV spreader convicted

August 1st 2008 00:51
Michael Neal - The Age
Michael Neal - The Age
The Michael Neal saga is drawing to a close with the conviction of the Melbourne grandfather for deliberately infecting others with HIV.

There’s no denying this case revealed some dark aspects of a section of the gay community. One man registering himself as a dog with the local council as proof of his love for another. Neal setting out to infect another man with HIV – without telling him – saying it’s better to get it from someone you love than from a stranger


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World Youth Day on The Rainbow Report

July 3rd 2008 01:00
Tonight on the Rainbow Report of Australia's 24/7/365 gay and lesbian radio station, Joy Melbourne, streaming live at http://www.joy.org.au from 7-8pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, I'll be talking about the Pope's takeover of Sydney for World Youth Day.

You can listen online and join in by email onair@joy.org.au


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