“Sometimes it’s subtle, like when relatives who once rarely referred to my partner now ask me how he is. Sometimes it’s more direct, like when a plumber says ‘take a few days to discuss it with the hubby’.”
“Being at the table helps ensure we are not on the menu.”
Grindr’s president came under fire after it was reported by Into, which is owned by Grindr, that he had called marriage “a holy matrimony between a man and a woman.”
The result has no direct legal bearing on a 2017 court ruling which gave legislators two years to amend laws to allow same-sex couples to marry, but advocates say the public opposition is a blow to the campaign.
Binary Australia is the pet project of Marriage Alliance’s Kirralie Smith, who is now a Senate candidate for Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives party in New South Wales.
Fascinatingly, if not surprisingly, 99 per cent of all same-sex marriages conducted throughout the period were performed by civil celebrants rather than religious ones.
“Celebrating love and relationships – rather than selling products – has always been White’s message,” the married Christian co-founders wrote in a blog post announcing the closure.
“Australians love Magda and Magda loves Australia, and despite last year being a tough year for her, Magda shared her strength in a way that inspired others to do the same.”
“Many of those disappointments were particularly poignant, because they were engineered by my brother Tony Abbott.”
“While the Yes campaign’s success was wonderful, necessary compromises in parliament left the law half fixed.”
