Posts in category Tasmania

“I didn’t hide his gender. I’d walk down the street with him, I used to buy his make-up. I didn’t care.”

“Plead with your government: change your ungodly marriage laws.”

“Archbishop Porteous only cares about free speech when he is the one talking.”

“The government should stop meddling in the lives of trans and gender diverse people, and allow us the same opportunities in life as everyone else.”

“If you fly a rainbow flag, lower it to half mast in honour of Mary Binks.”

“I prayed constantly throughout the day to be straight, but I realised I wasn’t going to change because sexuality isn’t a choice”

“As a consequence of the remoteness of the various settlements here, there was a wide underground gay life, with informal social groups and venues.”

The new law comes into effect from today.

“[This] confirms just how far Tasmania has come since it was the last state to decriminalise homosexuality twenty years ago”

“Roz and Lainey’s marriage marks the start of a new chapter in their lives and a new chapter in the life of Australia”