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A Second Term
Four years ago I was working as an errand boy (“editorial messenger”) for Adelaide’s daily metro newspaper, The Advertiser, when Senator Barack Obama won the US presidential election. I was driving one...
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Anti-gay voices: Ron Brookman
Closet-case Ron Brookman It’s sort of intriguing when you poke around a little on the internet to see what the ultra-bigots are up to. Obviously the ACL is the highest profile, but there’s a whole...
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Gay Voices: Rodney Croome
Australian Marriage Equality national convenor Rodney Croome writes in the Gay News Network: I was not looking forward to returning to Parliament House last week to lobby for marriage equality. After...
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Anti-gay voices: Jim Wallace
Earlier this year, you might recall, I sat down and went through six months’ worth of ACL press releases and podcasts and found that the organisation devotes an unholy amount of time to campaigning...
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Straight allies: Mia Freedman
The mommy blogger to rule all mommy bloggers, Mia Freedman, offers some insights and tips for parents on how they should parse “the gay talk” with their kids. The Gay Talk is the new Sex Talk. At some...
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Gay voices: Senator Penny Wong
Finance Minister Penny Wong recorded a message for the Community Brave Foundation, an online project targeting homophobia. I encountered a fair bit of racism when I was younger, so I know how isolating...
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Clear as mud: Joe Hockey
I don’t know quite what to call Joe Hockey. You wouldn’t exactly call him an “anti-gay voice” but it’s definitely stretching it to say he’s a “straight ally.” I’m even less certain after hearing his...
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Straight allies: Maya Newell
Kids need a mother and a father only so long as we keep those roles quarantined and artificially separated into rigid, airtight compartments. In this day and age it is safe to say that dads have...
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Straight allies: Senator Simon Birmingham
Coming from a born and bred Adelaide boy, South Australia has to be the weirdest state, politically-speaking at least. On the one hand, Christopher Pyne and Cory Bernardi. On the other Penny Wong and...
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Great atheists: Christopher Hitchens
It’s been a whole year since Christopher Hitchens died so I thought I’d share a few more of my favourite Hitch moments. Because it feels timely, in light of the Australian royal commission into the...
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Gay voices: Jason Ball
The AFL has been tentative about moves to help eradicate homophobic attitudes at all levels of the game, but they’ve made big strides in the last year. Yarra Valley footballer Jason Ball was behind...
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Anti-gay voices: Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg, sexpot. Ugh, this guy. The New Revised Perversion Bible Good news folks! For all those who love their sin and want complete Biblical justification for it, helpful publishers are now...
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Anti-gay voices: Loree Rudd
This is honestly one of the most bizarre statements I’ve ever heard. Loree Rudd, the sister of the former prime minister, who made a very dramatic show of leaving the Labor Party after it voted to...
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Anti-gay voices: CANdo
Courier Mail writer Paul Syrvet skewers the new Australian ultra-conservative lobby group CANdo, the newest antipodean iteration of the just-about-defunct Tea Party movement, consisting of Alan Jones,...
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Anti-gay voices: Jenny Stokes
Melbourne-based Salt Shakers calls itself a “Christian Ethics Action Group” which aims to “help Christians make a difference” and it’s run by evangelical husband and wife team Peter and Jenny Stokes....
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Anti-gay voices: Salt Shakers
Scouting around the Salt Shakers website as I was yesterday, I found a link to another site of theirs called “Resistance Thinking,” which appears to just be a vanity project for one guy, Cameron...
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Happy anniversary week to my sweetheart – yes, we have a whole week! – as we celebrate the amazing fact that we are now in year 25 together! — Anton Enus (@AntonEnus) December 31, 2012 Reader Clare...
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The Project on ‘pray away the gay’
In 2011 I interviewed Ben Gresham, featured in this story, about his experience going through these gay conversion therapies. I’ve met and spoken with a few other people who’ve gone through similar...
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Catholic research officer: homosexuality leads to paedophilia
Probably doesn’t deserve anything more than a snarky retweet, but this is bothersome for obvious reasons. Patrick Langrell is the research officer for Bishop Anthony Fisher of Parramatta, who served...
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Straight allies: Jim Jefferies
I love stand-up comedy and I’m Australian and a pretty hardcore atheist, but for some reason I hadn’t heard of Jim Jefferies until a few months ago, when I stumbled on a clip on Youtube one night. I...
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