Tag Archives: Australia

“The Australian Olympic Committee has been really supportive and they want me to be safe. They don’t recommend me waving a [rainbow] flag around which I won’t do. The most I’ll do is hold up six fingers to represent Principle Six. Possibly I’ll do it on camera here or there, and maybe after the heats of my event. After I …

Via GrindTV: Large sharks off Western Australia are now doing their part to keep surfers and swimmers safe–by sending tweets warning of their presence. Scientists have fitted 320 sharks, many of them great whites, with transmitters that automatically issue warnings to the Surf Life Saving Western Australia’s Twitter feed when the tagged sharks approach within a kilometer of the coast’s …

Clip recap: “We have a major setback this week in Australia, but there’s still a glimmer of hope. Marriage equality hearings are coming up in two unlikely states: Arkansas and Texas. An Oregon ballot measure passes a major hurdle, and organizers launch a new public outreach campaign on the east coast.”

As I reported last night, the marriage shown in this clip is now invalid. Get Up Australia posted the clip shortly after the ruling was announced.

In the last five days, 27 same-sex couples, including two JMG readers, have gotten married in the Australia Capital Territory (ACT.) Those marriages have just been ruled invalid. Via the Australian: The High Court has unanimously struck down the ACT’s gay marriage laws. The decision will mean that about two dozen week-old marriages have no legal effect. The ACT Marriage …

Via email from two days ago: “Hi there Joe, So last night my partner and I were one of the first couples to get married in Australia. Also wanted to say thanks for all the great work you do on your website, for the last 5 yrs JoeMyGod has been the first site I check in the morning, quite often …

Shortly after midnight local time, one hour ago at this writing, the first same-sex marriages took place in Australia’s Capital Territory. As most Australians were sleeping, Alan Wright and Joel Player were celebrating history with the nation’s first same-sex wedding ceremonies held at one minute past midnight in Canberra. The threat of the High Court striking down the ACT’s same-sex …

Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Australia’s capital this weekend and today the High Court announced that it will not rule on the federal government’s bid to quash the law until next Thursday. That provides a five-day window for marriages to take place. The court’s six judges heard the case today and announced that they would deliver their ruling on December …

For several years the Sydney Opera House has hosted a forum titled the Festival Of Dangerous Ideas, where pundits and personalities like (the late) Christopher Hitchens, Julian Assange, and Alan Dershowitz have appeared. At this year’s event, Savage was asked to present a “dangerous idea.” His response: “Population control: there’s too many goddamn people on the planet. You know, I’m …

From Australia’s Daily Telegraph: Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he will “do the right thing” and attend his gay sister’s wedding but could never support the marriage. And his sister Christine Forster’s engagement to partner Virginia Edwards will not dim his Government’s fight against the country’s first same-sex marriage laws in the ACT. “If there’s a ceremony of some kind, …

From an Australian version of The Onion: Canberra today became the first Australian state or territory to formally install Satan, Lord of Darkness, as its divine leader, following the passage of marriage equality laws through our capital’s God-forsaken Legislative Assembly. Speaking after the final vote, Chief Minister Katy Gallagher maintained that she was glad she did it. “The ACT has …

ABC News Australia has the great news: The Labor Government passed its Marriage Equality Same-Sex Bill in the Legislative Assembly with the help of Greens MLA Shane Rattenbury. The laws will allow an authorised celebrant to marry gay couples within the ACT, regardless of where they live. “I am proud to stand for equality. I am proud to stand for …

“I am a white heterosexual male. This trifecta of privilege means that I’m not routinely subjected to prejudice. But for a few minutes I got to walk in the shoes of a gay person in a public place. For no good reason I had had a slur marked over my luggage. I was degraded. I was shamed. I was humiliated. …

E! Online has a recap: Alexander Skarsgård shirtless, just how we like him! In Cut Copy’s new “Free Your Mind” music video, the hunky True Blood star plays a cult leader (a super-sexy cult leader, that is!). Adding to Skarsgård’s cult-leader look is a long, blond wig. In the vid, Skarsgård is shown doing a number of unusual things: He …

Pogo is the stage name of Australian wunderkind Nick Bertke.

An Australian priest has been excommunicated by the Vatican because, he says, he is supportive of same-sex marriage and female priests. The order comes direct from the Vatican, not at the request of Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart, and apparently follows a secret denunciation in the best traditions of the inquisition, according to Father Reynolds. The excommunication document – written in …