Tag Archives: Sydney

SYDNEY: Kylie Minogue Holiday Flash Mob [VIDEO]

Australians still love their flash mobs. Via the Daily Mail: Thousands flocked to Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach on Saturday to escape the searing heat, but were instead treated to a Christmas flash mob – hosted by two gloriously confident drag queens. Dancing to the tune of Kylie and Dannii Minogue’s latest single ‘100 degrees,’ bare-chested men and bikini-clad women wearing …

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AUSTRALIA: Catholic Church Pressures Businesses To Back Off Marriage Support

The Archdiocese Of Sydney is ever so pissed at the 150+  Australian corporations that have placed a joint newspaper campaign in support of same-sex marriage. The Catholic Church in Sydney is sending letters to companies that publicly support same-sex marriage, expressing its “grave concern” about their stance. The ABC has seen a copy of one letter addressed to the chairman …

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AUSTRALIA: Sydney Rallies For Marriage

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AUSTRALIA: Hate Group Tries To Air Anti-Marriage Equality Ad During Sydney Mardi Gras, Network Refuses

Via SameSame: SBS has flatly refused to show a controversial fear-mongering advertisement for ‘traditional marriage’ during tonight’s broadcast of Sydney Mardi Gras Parade highlights – and the maker of the ad is very annoyed about it. Australian Marriage Forum lobby group President Dr David van Gend, who appears in the ad simply billed as a ‘family doctor’, explained in an …

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Sydney Rings In 2015

Their fireworks are always the best.

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AUSTRALIA: Grieving Partner Of Murdered Hero Cafe Manager Speaks Out

Via Australian television: Siege victim Tori Johnson’s partner has thanked Australia and the world for the outpouring of support for the family that has come in the wake of the Martin Place tragedy. Thomas Zinn read an emotional statement directly to viewers on the TODAY Show this morning, speaking of the family’s pride in the strength of the community. “As …

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AUSTRALIA: Murdered Hero In Sydney Cafe Siege Was Openly Gay Man

The Sydney cafe manager murdered yesterday after being held hostage by a deranged Islamist was an openly gay man in a 14-year relationship. The manager of the Lindt cafe who was fatally shot in the Martin Place siege is being praised as a hero who helped others trapped in the cafe to escape. Tori Johnson, 34, was wrestling a gun …

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SYDNEY: Giant Condom Riles Anti-Gays

A giant condom wrapped over a monument in a Sydney park has enraged anti-gay activists. The 18m fluoro covering was slipped onto the Hyde Park Obelisk overnight as part of an advertising campaign commissioned by an agency for HIV prevention among gay men. Australian Christian Lobby director and outdoor advertising lobbyist Wendy Francis has spoken out on the stunt, telling …

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AUSTRALIA: Protesters Block Entrance As Hate Conference “Opens In Chaos”

Via the Guardian: About 100 protesters blocked the entrance to the Catch the Fire evangelical ministries in the Melbourne suburb of Hallam on Saturday morning, where the controversial World Congress of Families conference was scheduled to begin. Many speakers, including the American campaigner Angela Lanfranchi, who planned to speak on the thoroughly debunked link between breast cancer and abortion, were …

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Bingham Cup: Day Two Highlights

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AUSTRALIA: Gay Couple Legally Marries At British Consulate In Sydney

Gay Star News has the story: From today British consulates around Australia are allowed to marry same-sex couples where at least one of the parties is a UK citizen. What is believed to be the first such marriage in Australia took place today around 3pm at the British consulate near Sydney’s Circular Quay and involved a Scottish Australian couple. Peter …

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Sydney Rings In 2014

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Tom Thum At TEDxSydney

Possibly the best beatboxer I’ve ever seen and the bit where he mocks German techno (5:50) really cracked me up. (Tipped by JMG reader Fritzrth)

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AUSTRALIA: Premier Of New South Wales State Backs Same-Sex Marriage

“As a Liberal who believes that commitment and family units are one of the best ways in which society is organized, I support the concept of same-sex marriage. It was New Zealand that in 1893 first gave votes to women; it took us another nine years to do it. It shouldn’t have to take us another nine years to get …

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Petition Of The Day

The petition is from the global rights group All Out.

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Police Brutality Mars Sydney Mardi Gras

A spokesman for the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras this morning sent us the below press release. Late Tuesday evening, SGLMG received and viewed footage  involving NSW Police arresting a spectator with excessive force at the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade on March 2, 2013. This incident is quite distressing and our thoughts are with the individual, his family, friends …

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Sydney Celebrates 2013

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Sydney Mardi Gras Has A Kiki

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Sydney Mardi Gras Condom Ad

(Via – Copyranter)

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Sydney Rings In 2012

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