Tag Archives: Australia

While judging an Australian talent show, Harry Connick, Jr. was appalled when an act performed in blackface as the “Jackson Jive.” Connick gave the group a “zero” score, then came back later to school the audience on how offensive blackface is considered in America, saying he would “definitely not have done the show” had he known about the performance. According …

Jockohomo is back from hiatus and brings us this neat story: Australia’s national rugby union team, the Wallabies, have the backs of the Sydney Convicts (Australia’s only gay rugby union team, and current title holders of the Bingham Cup) and agreed to take part in the This Is Oz campaign, ACON’s social inclusion initiative aimed at fighting discrimination against Australia’s …

I can’t wait for Orly Taitz, who seems to have fled to Israel, to respond to this. Via ABC News Australia: An unsuspecting Adelaide public servant has found himself swept up in a conspiracy to oust the 44th President of the United States from office. A movement known as the Birthers, which originated in California, is attempting to prove that …

Equal Love advises us that tomorrow (ish…depending on where you are right now) will see Australia’s largest same-sex marriage rallies ever. Protests will take place in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Hobart, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Canberra. Go here to find locations and times.

Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd is “pushing back” against a Labor Party call for the federal government to legalize same-sex marriage. Mr Rudd says he will not change the policy he took to the last election. “We went to the last election being very clear-cut about our position on marriage under the Marriage Act being between a man and a …

GREAT ad for Australian marriage equality. Go to Equal Love for more info about the movement. (Tipped by JMG reader Tony)

In its alumni newsletter, a Catholic high school in New South Wales, Australia has published a letter from an “ex-gay” former student that local activists say calls for the murder of homosexuals. Xavier High School in Albury printed the letter, written by former student Matt Price, in the latest edition of its alumni newsletter Xavier. Mr Price said he was …

Celebrity chef and star of Hell’s Kitchen Gordon Ramsay went nuts on an Australian journalist during a food show in Melbourne. Gordon Ramsay has outraged women’s groups in Australia by depicting a leading female television journalist as a lesbian pig. The astonishing tirade shocked audiences at a food show in Melbourne where Ramsay was giving a demonstration. It has led …

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s government has formally rejected a call for civil unions for same-sex couples. The Government’s response equated the proposal with same-sex marriage equality, saying the no gay unions policy “reflects the widely held view in the community that marriage is between a man and a woman”. But the Government confirmed it still intends to recognise and …

I’d love to see the questions on the test. Q: The Supremes did their best work after Diana Ross left. True/false? (Trick question, homo. Real men don’t even know who Diana Ross IS.) Melbourne Catholic Church has confirmed it is following Vatican recommendations to test would-be priests to ensure they are not gay. The head of the Vatican committee which …

This cake was unveiled in Sydney this weekend to honor the 50th anniversary of Barbie. And yes, they really ate her after the ceremony. I wonder where they first stuck the knife? “Skinny bitch, I’ll cut you!” Please note that by Australian law you must include the Opera House in the photo or it didn’t happen. (Via – Cake Wrecks)

As wildfires continue to ravage Australia, where there have already been almost 200 deaths, koala bears are approaching humans to beg for water. In the clip below, a firefighter comes to the rescue of a dazed koala. The Australian prime minister is calling arsonsists who are suspected of starting some of the fires “mass murderers”.

Australian gays and progressives are annoyed by a new law against “annoying” the attendees of next week’s World Youth Day with Ill Papa. Wearing T-shirts that read “Pope Go Homo” and “The pope is wrong, put a condom on!,” a dozen demonstrators poked fun Wednesday at a new Australian law meant to protect participants of next week’s World Youth Day …

Australian diver Matthew Mitcham, 20, has come out in advance of competing in the Beijing Olympics. Like many athletes around the world, Australian Matthew Mitcham fought his way to the top of his sport to qualify for the Beijing Olympic Games. Unlike many of his Olympic counterparts however, the diver must fight to bring his life partner with him to …

The Australian government has announced over 100 reforms giving gay couples almost the same rights as straight couples – with the notable exception of marriage. The move has been welcomed by LGBT groups but has drawn criticism over the refusal to legalise ‘gay marriage’. Under the changes, gay couples in long-term relationships would be treated the same as married couples …

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd read a 361-word apology to the aboriginal people of Australia today for his country’s history of forced assimilation, a policy which removed aborigine children from their homes and gave them to white parents. Based on the premise that “full-blood” Aborigines were a race headed for extinction, up to 100,000 mixed-race children were taken from their …

Twenty years ago, Australia’s Department of Public Health launched a disturbing HIV awareness campaign featuring the Grim Reaper mowing down people in a bowling alley. Here’s their update, this time featuring local drag star Mitzi Macintosh as the Glam Reaper. Interesting clip, but, uh…Doogie Howser?

Newly elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said yesterday that his administration will not interfere with states or territories that move to legalize civil unions for gay couples. The state of Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory are both expected to pass civil union laws early next year. Previous attempts to pass such legislation were thwarted by previous Prime Minister …

Ha ha haHo ho ho And a couple of tra la la’s Australian Labor Party Prime Minister candidate Kevin Rudd has trounced anti-gay Bush lackey John Howard. Howard lost so badly, he no longer even has a seat in Parliament. Rudd’s historic win means that Labor now runs the government in every Australian state and territory. Also for the first …

Australian news outlets are abuzz with the arrest of a 48-year old man who had regularly been holding HIV “conversion parties” in his Melbourne home. I’ve heard of such parties in NYC and SF, in which the bizarre, unthinkable, unthinking world of “bug chasers” is celebrated, and HIV-infected men proudly label themselves as “breeders”, happily available to give “the gift” …