Eric Abetz wins award for homophobic rant about the rainbow flag

Eric Abetz wins award for homophobic rant about the rainbow flag
Image: Eric Abetz. Image: Facebook.

The annuals GLORIAs – Gay & Lesbian Outrageous, Ridiculous, and Ignorant Comment Awards – were handed out last week, with some high-profile ‘winners’.

The awards were determined by a raucous boo-off to decide the worst comments of the year.

Eric Abetz won the award for politics, for his bizarre rant about the rainbow flag representing a hostile nation’s war on Australia.

Lyle Shelton took out the religion award, for his comments comparing same-sex marriage to Nazi atrocities.

In sport, Nico Hines from the Daily Beast won the award for his stunt posing as a gay man on Grindr at the Rio Olympic village—then outing athletes from homophobic countries.

Cartoonist Larry Pickering won the media award for his comments about Muslims: “They’re not all bad, they do chuck pillow-biters off buildings”.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov won the international award, for his alleged role in overseeing the rounding up of gay and bi men into concentration camps, which is now being called a genocide.

And the award for silliest comment from within the LGBTI community went to the Gays for Trump campaign in the US, for defending Donald Trump’s support of anti-trans laws.

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2 responses to “Eric Abetz wins award for homophobic rant about the rainbow flag”

  1. Erich’s attitude is, given his family history and his forbears – between 1933-1945 -, to be expected. Ask him about his relatives Nazi past and their treatment of our people. He won’t answer. No matter how they try to hide it that old saying “The Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” is so true.
    Not that I am religious or believe in any of that mythical garbage but I well remember that old biblical phrase:
    “The sins of the fathers will follow unto the third and fourth generations”
    Just as the Jesuits have always said “Give me a child until he is 7 years old and we’ve got him,/her for life” and that also applies to other groups too.

  2. Margaret Court became an extreme homophobe when she was beaten on the tennis “court” by some famous lesbian tennis champions. She has not ever been able to get over it. Her religion is used to justify her obnoxious views.