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Marriage march this Saturday
Dust off your placards from last year, or crack out the poster paints, this Saturday March 20, people will take to the streets to rally for same-sex marriage rights again. Following ... Read more
Fri March 19th, 2010 - No Comments
Marriage Bill debate begins today
The Greens and Parents and Friends of Lesbians And Gays (PFLAG) have spoken out prior to debate in the Senate on the Marriage Equality (Amendment) Bill. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said she ... Read more
Thu February 25th, 2010 - 9 Comments
Party slammed over gay marriage stance
Gay activists have dismissed claims by the public officer of the new Tasmanian pro-environment Ethics and Sustainability Party, Kathleen Petrovsky, that same-sex marriage is 'radical' and 'trendy', and have requested ... Read more
Mon January 18th, 2010 - 6 Comments
Quakers support gay marriage
The Australian Quakers this week called on the Federal Government to amend the Marriage Act to give full and equal legal recognition to all marriages, regardless of the sexual orientation ... Read more
Tue January 12th, 2010 - 2 Comments
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Pope attacks Portugal
Following Portugal’s recent move to legalise same-sex marriage, Pope Benedict XVI has again spoken out against the issue of gay marriage equality. In a sermon to Vatican diplomats, the Pope ... Read more
Tue January 12th, 2010 - 8 Comments
Australia ‘falling behind’
Australia’s marriage equality advocates say Australia is falling further behind other countries following a decision by the Portuguese Parliament to allow same-sex marriage. Australian Marriage Equality national convener Alex Greenwich said ... Read more
Mon January 11th, 2010 - 6 Comments
Gay marriage in Portugal?
Portugal’s Parliament is expected to approved same-sex marriage on Friday, website dallasvoice.com is reporting. If passed, it needs to pass another reading before becoming law. That is expected just in time ... Read more
Fri January 8th, 2010 - 1 Comment
Marriage push takes step forward, and two back
The international push for same-sex marriage has taken one step forward, and perhaps half a step back as weddings on two continents are received differently. Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex ... Read more
Tue January 5th, 2010 - No Comments
Continents apart, same aim: gay marriage
The international push for same-sex marriage has taken one step forward, and perhaps half a step back as weddings on two continents are received differently. Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex ... Read more
Wed December 30th, 2009 - 4 Comments
Queer culture vs gay marriage
By Zoe Beaumont Our queer community is often a community in the loosest sense of the word. We are grouped together because society views us as different from them. But we ... Read more
Wed December 9th, 2009 - 5 Comments
Majority want marriage
More than half of Australia’s gay and lesbian population wants to be married, according to a University of Queensland survey. According to Not So Private Lives, the first national poll of ... Read more
Mon September 14th, 2009 - 5 Comments
ACT marriage debate begins
The ACT Labor Government is hedging its bets as it looks for a way out of a dilemma created by its conflict with the Rudd Government over same-sex unions. If passed, ... Read more
Tue September 8th, 2009 - 3 Comments
Tasmania tempts marriage laws
The same-sex marriage debate took to the states last week, with Tasmanian Greens and gay rights activists appealing for state governments to take up the issue. State Greens Leader Nick McKim ... Read more
Tue September 1st, 2009 - 4 Comments
Pitt pushes gay marriage again
Brad Pitt has climbed back on his gay marriage soapbox, this time on American television. According to The Advocate, Pitt sat down with the Today show's Ann Curry to talk about ... Read more
Fri August 14th, 2009 - 4 Comments
Getting hitched at The Clarence
Darryn and Nick will celebrate their six-and-half-year relationship with a commitment ceremony at The Clarence Hotel this Friday, July 31. Mistress of Ceremonies Sandy Bottom will unite the couple, with ... Read more
Tue July 28th, 2009 - No Comments
Mass wedding planned
Attendees at this year's Labor Party conference will see a potent image of gay rights, as Community Action Against Homophobia attempts to stage the world's largest gay wedding ceremony. Organisers of ... Read more
Tue June 16th, 2009 - 7 Comments
Civil marriage
Later this year, the GLRL will launch a campaign for formal relationship recognition. Since 2006, when the GLRL conducted community consultations around NSW, the community told us two things. ... Read more
Tue June 9th, 2009 - 2 Comments
Vermont says -˜yes’
Vermont has become the fourth US state to legalise same-sex marriage, joining Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa. The state's legislature voted for a same-sex marriage bill last week but were four votes ... Read more
Thu April 9th, 2009 - 11 Comments
Gun-slingin’ equality
Many of you would have heard by now that Iowa, yes Iowa, has become the third state in America, after Connecticut and Massachusetts, to legalise gay marriage. Last week, the Iowa ... Read more
Wed April 8th, 2009 - 12 Comments
Beyond gay marriage
A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture given by visiting American legal academic Nancy Polikoff. In her talk, called -˜Beyond Gay Marriage', she lambasted the gay and lesbian ... Read more
Tue March 31st, 2009 - 1 Comment
Glamour and rights
It seems not one Academy Awards passes without a winner speaking their mind -” and so they should. Although the Oscars provide a fantastic opportunity for glitz, glamour and dreaming, it ... Read more
Wed February 25th, 2009 - No Comments
New Jersey close to marriage
New Jersey may be the next American state to allow gay marriage after a number of elected government representatives, including Governor Jon Corzine, recently stated public support for same-sex marriage. ... Read more
Wed January 14th, 2009 - No Comments
A team of rivals
2008 was a landmark year for gay and lesbian rights. We saw lesbian co-mothers recognised as legal parents for the first time in NSW and we saw the passing ... Read more
Wed January 14th, 2009 - 2 Comments
Separate but equal
Michael Kirby's inaugural lecture delivered last Wednesday in honour of the late John Marsden should cause us all to pause and consider whether the same-sex equality reforms currently being debated ... Read more
Wed October 22nd, 2008 - No Comments
Young Labor backs gay marriage
The next generation of Labor's insiders has joined a growing movement of party members breaking ranks against the ban on same-sex marriage. The NSW Young Labor conference on Saturday resol-ved to ... Read more
Wed August 27th, 2008 - No Comments
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You have to feel sorry for Tony Abbott. He has been criticised for speaking without thinking, in his comments on women’s virginity, and on homosexuality “challenging orthodox notions of the right order of things”. The ... Read more
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