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• THE MOST IMPORTANT LGBT INS ATRALIA TOM SMH 24 NOVEMBER 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT FOR A UNTRY THAT WAS SO UNFASHNABLY LATE TO THE MARRIAGE EQUALY PARTY UNTIL THIS MONTH’S ROUNDG ‘Y’ VOTE ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ATRALIA SURE DO LOVE S GAY INS. AND THE ARE THE DOZEN ATRALIANS — GAY, STRAIGHT, OR WHEREVER THEY S BETWEEN — THAT HOLD A PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT PLACE AMONG THE NATN’S LGBT MUNY. VIEW ALL TRIPS KYLIE MOGUE BRISH TABLOID THE SUN NAMED KYLIE THE WORLD’S GREATT EVER GAY IN 2007, NEARLY 20 YEARS AFTER TROUP OF DRAG QUEENS FIRST STARTED PERFORMG HER MIC SYDNEY BARS WAY BACK WHEN SHE WAS STILL JT CHARLENE ON NEIGHBOURS. THAT HUGE TERNATNAL LGBT FOLLOWG HAS LED TO SEVERAL FAMO PERFORMANC AT THE SYDNEY MARDI GRAS, AS WELL AS THIS LEGENDARY QUOTE: “GAY INS UALLY HAVE SOME TRAGEDY THEIR LIV, BUT I’VE ONLY HAD TRAGIC HAIRCUTS AND OUTFS”. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP TURKEY EGYPT ICELAND SOUTH AI MEXI THAILAND INDIA ECUADOR MOROC CROATIA JAPAN BALI GREECE SPA KYLIE MOGUE PERFORMG AT THE MARDI GRAS | © EVA RALDI/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS IAN ROBERTS THE GBY LEAGUE HARDMAN WAS ARGUABLY ATRALIA’S TOUGHT SPORTSMAN BEFORE HE ME OUT AS GAY — AND THERE WAS NO ARGUMENT ABOUT AFTER HIS GROUND-BREAKG ANNOUNCEMENT 1995. ROBERTS REMAS THE ONLY PROFSNAL ATRALIAN TEAM-SPORT ATHLETE TO E OUT TO THE PUBLIC WHILE STILL PETG, AND HAS REMAED THE SPOTLIGHT POST-RETIREMENT WH A HOLLYWOOD ACTG REER AND A RPECTED PUBLIC VOICE ON LGBT ISSU. MAGDA SZUBANSKI MAGDA BEME ONE OF THE UNTRY’S FAVOURE IC ACTORS THANKS TO HER PERFORMANCE AS SHARON STRZELECKI THE BELOVED ASIE S KATH & KIM, BUT SHE’LL BE REMEMBERED FOR THE FAR MORE SER ROLE SHE PLAYED THIS YEAR’S MARRIAGE EQUALY POSTAL SURVEY. OUT SCE VALENTE’S DAY 2012, SZUBANSKI WAS THE PUBLIC FACE OF THE ‘Y’ VOTE, LENDG HER TSTED PERSONALY TO THE ENORMOLY SUCCSFUL MPAIGN. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP MAGDA SZUBANSKI AT A MARRIAGE EQUALY RALLY | © ATRALIAN PROGRSIVE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS ALEX GREENWICH MAGDA MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE HIGHT-PROFILE ADVOTE FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY, BUT HER GOOD IEND ALEX WAS THE DRIVG FORCE BEHD THE SCEN. A KEY FIGURE THE FIGHT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ATRALIA SCE HE MARRIED HIS GERMAN PARTNER VICTOR HOELD ARGENTA FIVE YEARS AGO, THE YOUNG PENNT POLICIAN IS A TIRELS MPAIGNER FOR FAIRNS AND EQUALY FOR LGBTI MUNI. RUBY ROSE THE TWTERSPHERE SHARED ONE UNIVERSAL REACTN WHEN THE SPECTACULARLY TATTOOED GENRFLUID ACTOR BUTED ON CULT NETFLIX SERI ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK 2015: “SHE TURNED ME GAY”. RUBY MA A NAME FOR HERSELF AS AN MTV PRENTER BEFORE TURNG HER HAND TO MOLLG AND ACTG, AND OF URSE, BEG RPONSIBLE FOR LNS OF PEOPLE’S SEXUAL AWAKENG. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. RUBY ROSE | © EVA RALDI/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS PETER ALLEN THIS BOY OM THE BH HAS BEEN SCRIBED AS THE MAN WHO “GAVE ATRALIA THE PERMISSN TO BE MP. HE DRAGGED OUT OF A DIM, BUTTONED-UP ENGLISHNS AND TOOK ON A PERMANENT SUMMER HOLIDAY”. THE EX-MR LIZA MELLI ME OUT AS GAY THE 1970S AND LIVED WH PARTNER GREGORY CONNELL UNTIL THEY BOTH DIED OF AIDS-RELATED ILLNS 1984 AND 1992 RPECTIVELY — AND HIS LEGACY WAS IMMORTALISED BY HUGH JACKMAN’S 2003 BROADWAY MIL THE BOY OM OZ. - AME - CATE MCGREGOR THIS IS A WOMAN WHO BOASTS ONE HELL OF A CV. HIGH-RANKG MEMBER OF THE ATRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE, RPECTED CRICKET MENTATOR, AND — SCE SHE CID TO TRANSN TO WOMANHOOD 2012 — ATRALIA’S HIGHT PROFILE TRANSGENR PERSON. BORN MALLM MCGREGOR 1956, CATE WENT PUBLIC AS TRANSGENR 2013 — AND DOG SO, BEME THE HIGHT RANKG TRANSGENR ARY OFFICER ANYWHERE THE WORLD. IAN THORPE MUCH LIKE THE OTHER ATHLETIC IAN ON THIS LIST, ATRALIA’S MOST RATED OLYMPIAN WAS ALREADY BELOVED BY THE PUBLIC FOR HIS ACHIEVEMENTS THE SPORTG ARENA — BUT WHEN THE FIVE-TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL-WNG SWIMMER ME OUT 2014, HE EARNED A NEW SET OF FANS THE LGBT MUNY. AFTER YEARS OF PUBLICLY NYG HIS SEXUALY, THORPE SCRIBED THE RELIEF HE FELT WHEN HE MA THE ANNOUNCEMENT: “I DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL THE SAME WAY I DID… AND I HOPE THIS MAK EASIER FOR OTHERS NOW, AND EVEN IF YOU’VE HELD FOR YEARS, FEELS EASIER TO GET OUT”. IAN THORPE | © DOHA STADIUM PL QATAR/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS PORTIA ROSSI HOW ULD WE POSSIBLY LEAVE MRS ELLEN DEGENER OFF THIS LIST? KNOWN AS AMANDA LEE ROGERS BACK WHEN SHE WAS GROWG UP RAL VICTORIA, PORTIA CRACKED HOLLYWOOD WH HER ROLE ALLY MCBEAL AND LATER ARRTED DEVELOPMENT, AND HER PROFILE HAS SKYROCKETED AS ONE HALF OF PERHAPS THE MOST FAMO SAME-SEX UPLE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. MOLLY MELDM WHEN MOLLY SUFFERED A LIFE-THREATENG FALL OM A LADR 2011, ATRALIA HELD S BREATH FOR A BONA FI NATNAL TREASURE, ONE OF THE UNTRY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY TV STARS. THE 74-YEAR-OLD HAS THANKFULLY RETURNED TO HEALTH, GIVG THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY — AS WELL AS THE ATRALIAN PUBLIC AT LARGE, PARTICULARLY LGBT PEOPLE — A RENEWED APPRECIATN FOR THE LEGENDARY MIC PERSONALY. MOLLY MELDM | © EVA RALDI/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS ANDREJA PEJIC ANDREJA BEME THE FIRST TRANSGENR MOL TO APPEAR ON THE ONT VER OF VOGUE MAY 2015… NOT BAD FOR SOMEONE WHO WAS DISVERED WORKG AT A MELBOURNE MCDONALD’S AS A 16-YEAR-OLD. BOSNIAN-BORN PEJIC MOLLED AS BOTH A MAN AND A WOMAN BEFORE UNRGOG SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY 2014, GIVG THE PUBLIC AN TIMATE SIGHT TO HER JOURNEY. “I WANT TO SHARE MY STORY WH THE WORLD BEE I THK I HAVE A SOCIAL RPONSIBILY… I HOPE THAT BY BEG OPEN ABOUT THIS, BE LS OF AN ISSUE.” PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DERT THE FAL ENTRY ON THIS LIST IS AN ANIMATE OBJECT — BUT, HEY, WHO SAID A B ULDN’T BE A GAY IN? AFTER ALL, THE INIC LAVENR TOUR B WAS THE VEHICLE — BOTH LERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY — THAT TRODUCED MASTREAM ATRALIAN DIENC TO LGBT CHARACTERS THE CLASSIC 1994 FILM OF THE SAME NAME, FERRYG TWO DRAG QUEENS AND A TRANSGENR WOMAN THROUGH THE ATRALIAN OUTBACK ON A ROAD TRIP FOR THE AG. - AME - VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GAY THE WORLD?
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• HOW MANY GAY PEOPLE ARE THERE ATRALIA?

THE MOST IMPORTANT LGBT INS ATRALIA TOM SMH 24 NOVEMBER 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT FOR A UNTRY THAT WAS SO UNFASHNABLY LATE TO THE MARRIAGE EQUALY PARTY UNTIL THIS MONTH’S ROUNDG ‘Y’ VOTE ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ATRALIA SURE DO LOVE S GAY INS. AND THE ARE THE DOZEN ATRALIANS — GAY, STRAIGHT, OR WHEREVER THEY S BETWEEN — THAT HOLD A PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT PLACE AMONG THE NATN’S LGBT MUNY. VIEW ALL TRIPS KYLIE MOGUE BRISH TABLOID THE SUN NAMED KYLIE THE WORLD’S GREATT EVER GAY IN 2007, NEARLY 20 YEARS AFTER TROUP OF DRAG QUEENS FIRST STARTED PERFORMG HER MIC SYDNEY BARS WAY BACK WHEN SHE WAS STILL JT CHARLENE ON NEIGHBOURS. THAT HUGE TERNATNAL LGBT FOLLOWG HAS LED TO SEVERAL FAMO PERFORMANC AT THE SYDNEY MARDI GRAS, AS WELL AS THIS LEGENDARY QUOTE: “GAY INS UALLY HAVE SOME TRAGEDY THEIR LIV, BUT I’VE ONLY HAD TRAGIC HAIRCUTS AND OUTFS”. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP TURKEY EGYPT ICELAND SOUTH AI MEXI THAILAND INDIA ECUADOR MOROC CROATIA JAPAN BALI GREECE SPA KYLIE MOGUE PERFORMG AT THE MARDI GRAS | © EVA RALDI/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS IAN ROBERTS THE GBY LEAGUE HARDMAN WAS ARGUABLY ATRALIA’S TOUGHT SPORTSMAN BEFORE HE ME OUT AS GAY — AND THERE WAS NO ARGUMENT ABOUT AFTER HIS GROUND-BREAKG ANNOUNCEMENT 1995. ROBERTS REMAS THE ONLY PROFSNAL ATRALIAN TEAM-SPORT ATHLETE TO E OUT TO THE PUBLIC WHILE STILL PETG, AND HAS REMAED THE SPOTLIGHT POST-RETIREMENT WH A HOLLYWOOD ACTG REER AND A RPECTED PUBLIC VOICE ON LGBT ISSU. MAGDA SZUBANSKI MAGDA BEME ONE OF THE UNTRY’S FAVOURE IC ACTORS THANKS TO HER PERFORMANCE AS SHARON STRZELECKI THE BELOVED ASIE S KATH & KIM, BUT SHE’LL BE REMEMBERED FOR THE FAR MORE SER ROLE SHE PLAYED THIS YEAR’S MARRIAGE EQUALY POSTAL SURVEY. OUT SCE VALENTE’S DAY 2012, SZUBANSKI WAS THE PUBLIC FACE OF THE ‘Y’ VOTE, LENDG HER TSTED PERSONALY TO THE ENORMOLY SUCCSFUL MPAIGN. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP MAGDA SZUBANSKI AT A MARRIAGE EQUALY RALLY | © ATRALIAN PROGRSIVE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS ALEX GREENWICH MAGDA MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE HIGHT-PROFILE ADVOTE FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY, BUT HER GOOD IEND ALEX WAS THE DRIVG FORCE BEHD THE SCEN. A KEY FIGURE THE FIGHT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ATRALIA SCE HE MARRIED HIS GERMAN PARTNER VICTOR HOELD ARGENTA FIVE YEARS AGO, THE YOUNG PENNT POLICIAN IS A TIRELS MPAIGNER FOR FAIRNS AND EQUALY FOR LGBTI MUNI. RUBY ROSE THE TWTERSPHERE SHARED ONE UNIVERSAL REACTN WHEN THE SPECTACULARLY TATTOOED GENRFLUID ACTOR BUTED ON CULT NETFLIX SERI ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK 2015: “SHE TURNED ME GAY”. RUBY MA A NAME FOR HERSELF AS AN MTV PRENTER BEFORE TURNG HER HAND TO MOLLG AND ACTG, AND OF URSE, BEG RPONSIBLE FOR LNS OF PEOPLE’S SEXUAL AWAKENG. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. RUBY ROSE | © EVA RALDI/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS PETER ALLEN THIS BOY OM THE BH HAS BEEN SCRIBED AS THE MAN WHO “GAVE ATRALIA THE PERMISSN TO BE MP. HE DRAGGED OUT OF A DIM, BUTTONED-UP ENGLISHNS AND TOOK ON A PERMANENT SUMMER HOLIDAY”. THE EX-MR LIZA MELLI ME OUT AS GAY THE 1970S AND LIVED WH PARTNER GREGORY CONNELL UNTIL THEY BOTH DIED OF AIDS-RELATED ILLNS 1984 AND 1992 RPECTIVELY — AND HIS LEGACY WAS IMMORTALISED BY HUGH JACKMAN’S 2003 BROADWAY MIL THE BOY OM OZ. - AME - CATE MCGREGOR THIS IS A WOMAN WHO BOASTS ONE HELL OF A CV. HIGH-RANKG MEMBER OF THE ATRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE, RPECTED CRICKET MENTATOR, AND — SCE SHE CID TO TRANSN TO WOMANHOOD 2012 — ATRALIA’S HIGHT PROFILE TRANSGENR PERSON. BORN MALLM MCGREGOR 1956, CATE WENT PUBLIC AS TRANSGENR 2013 — AND DOG SO, BEME THE HIGHT RANKG TRANSGENR ARY OFFICER ANYWHERE THE WORLD. IAN THORPE MUCH LIKE THE OTHER ATHLETIC IAN ON THIS LIST, ATRALIA’S MOST RATED OLYMPIAN WAS ALREADY BELOVED BY THE PUBLIC FOR HIS ACHIEVEMENTS THE SPORTG ARENA — BUT WHEN THE FIVE-TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL-WNG SWIMMER ME OUT 2014, HE EARNED A NEW SET OF FANS THE LGBT MUNY. AFTER YEARS OF PUBLICLY NYG HIS SEXUALY, THORPE SCRIBED THE RELIEF HE FELT WHEN HE MA THE ANNOUNCEMENT: “I DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL THE SAME WAY I DID… AND I HOPE THIS MAK EASIER FOR OTHERS NOW, AND EVEN IF YOU’VE HELD FOR YEARS, FEELS EASIER TO GET OUT”. IAN THORPE | © DOHA STADIUM PL QATAR/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS PORTIA ROSSI HOW ULD WE POSSIBLY LEAVE MRS ELLEN DEGENER OFF THIS LIST? KNOWN AS AMANDA LEE ROGERS BACK WHEN SHE WAS GROWG UP RAL VICTORIA, PORTIA CRACKED HOLLYWOOD WH HER ROLE ALLY MCBEAL AND LATER ARRTED DEVELOPMENT, AND HER PROFILE HAS SKYROCKETED AS ONE HALF OF PERHAPS THE MOST FAMO SAME-SEX UPLE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. MOLLY MELDM WHEN MOLLY SUFFERED A LIFE-THREATENG FALL OM A LADR 2011, ATRALIA HELD S BREATH FOR A BONA FI NATNAL TREASURE, ONE OF THE UNTRY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY TV STARS. THE 74-YEAR-OLD HAS THANKFULLY RETURNED TO HEALTH, GIVG THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY — AS WELL AS THE ATRALIAN PUBLIC AT LARGE, PARTICULARLY LGBT PEOPLE — A RENEWED APPRECIATN FOR THE LEGENDARY MIC PERSONALY. MOLLY MELDM | © EVA RALDI/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS ANDREJA PEJIC ANDREJA BEME THE FIRST TRANSGENR MOL TO APPEAR ON THE ONT VER OF VOGUE MAY 2015… NOT BAD FOR SOMEONE WHO WAS DISVERED WORKG AT A MELBOURNE MCDONALD’S AS A 16-YEAR-OLD. BOSNIAN-BORN PEJIC MOLLED AS BOTH A MAN AND A WOMAN BEFORE UNRGOG SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY 2014, GIVG THE PUBLIC AN TIMATE SIGHT TO HER JOURNEY. “I WANT TO SHARE MY STORY WH THE WORLD BEE I THK I HAVE A SOCIAL RPONSIBILY… I HOPE THAT BY BEG OPEN ABOUT THIS, BE LS OF AN ISSUE.” PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DERT THE FAL ENTRY ON THIS LIST IS AN ANIMATE OBJECT — BUT, HEY, WHO SAID A B ULDN’T BE A GAY IN? AFTER ALL, THE INIC LAVENR TOUR B WAS THE VEHICLE — BOTH LERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY — THAT TRODUCED MASTREAM ATRALIAN DIENC TO LGBT CHARACTERS THE CLASSIC 1994 FILM OF THE SAME NAME, FERRYG TWO DRAG QUEENS AND A TRANSGENR WOMAN THROUGH THE ATRALIAN OUTBACK ON A ROAD TRIP FOR THE AG. - AME - VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

The worldwi LGBTQ populatn by untry reports timate that approximately eight percent of the world intifi as homosexual, bisexual, or pansexual.

It is timated that the younger generatns are more likely to be open about their sexualy, wh Generatn Z beg the most likely to be openly gay, bisexual, or asexual or pansexual.

Millennials are the next most likely to be openly gay, and Baby Boomers are the least likely to report or intify as openly gay. In 2011, one report dited that approximately 96.5 percent of the populatn was heterosexual, while the remar of the populatn reported, intified as homosexual or asexual.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GAY THE WORLD?

More women than men reported as homosexual, while 19 percent of women reported as said they had at least one same-sex attractn their life. By 2020, a separate study found that 7.1 percent of the populatn intified as gay, and the remar intified as heterosexual. Of those that do intify as LGBTQ, over 50 percent of them are bisexual and 24 percent are gay, while 11 percent are lbian.

Canada’s Gay Populatn. In Canada, 1988, only one percent of the populatn would adm that they were gay.

By 2012, five percent of the populatn were intifyg as gay, lbian, transgenr, or bisexual. The age group most likely to say they were gay or bisexual was the age group of 18-34. In 2016, a study or poll on women alone dited that eight percent were gay.

GAY ATRALIA

Israel’s Higher Gay Populatn. Compared to many untri, cludg Canada, Israel has a higher than average gay populatn when parg LGBTQ populatn by untry.

The gay populatn Israel was approximately 11.3 percent 2012 for men, and 15.2 percent for women. Israel follows su wh other untri that are reportg or intifyg as gay. The younger generatns are more likely to intify as gay or report as gay.

“We n see the impact of preventn strategi like creasg HIV ttg, treatment as preventn, and pre-exposure prophylaxis particularly among gay and bisexual men, for whom new diagnos have been droppg signifintly sce 2014. They show that the majory (57 per cent) of new HIV s ntue to be diagnosed among gay and bisexual men. Atralia's world-leadg HIV rctns gay and bisexual men.

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Atralia has achieved a remarkable 57 per cent rctn new HIV diagnos among gay and bisexual men sce 2013, showsg the succs of prehensive approach to HIV preventn wh this populatn. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

HOW MANY GAY PEOPLE ARE THERE ATRALIA?

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Of that 6%, gay mal make up for a massive percentage (44%) of LGBTQ+ hoeholds Atralia, closely followed by bi-sexual (26%) and lbian (15%) inty hoeholds. For a untry that was so unfashnably late to the marriage equaly party until this month’s roundg ‘y’ vote on same-sex marriage, Atralia sure do love s gay ins.