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HIGH COURT OF ATRALIA’S GAY MARRIAGE POSTAL VOTE CISN

For one, ’s been s sce the first Gay Solidary march Sydney 1978, an actn that beme Sydney’s annual Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras.

The cisn to exclu gay upl om the Marriage Act prompted Atralia’s gay and lbian muny and s supporters to stand up for same-sex marriage. The gay and lbian muny beme unted the Atralian cens for the first time 2011.

Countg same-sex upl the cens is a fe step toward formally acknowledgg gay and lbian partnerships.

ATRALIA APPROV GAY MARRIAGE IN A CONTROVERSIAL MAIL-IN VOTE

” GAY MARRIAGE ‘LEGAL BY XMAS’Gay marriage will likely be legal by the end of the year if the majory of Atralians vote ‘Y’ the upg postal survey. “It’s time to move forward as a natn, to move forward, to vote ‘Y’, and to liver marriage equaly for gay and lbian people across Atralia, their iends and their fai, ” Human Rights Law Centre director of Legal Advocy Anna Brown said.

“Vote ‘Y’ for the digny of gay and lbian people, vote ‘Y’ to allow them to marry those that they love, vote ‘Y’ for love. Liberal Senator Eric Abetz, a vol opponent to legalisg gay marriage, weled the urt’s said the vote would allow “fotten” Atralians to have their say spe “el” tryg to stifle mocracy.

LGBTI groups said a plebisce would value the stat of LGBTI people by treatg them separately om regular parliamentary vot, and would subject them to harassment and homophobia the n-up to the plebisce. The Equaly Campaign is n by mpaign director Tim Gartrell, a former secretary of the Labor party and lear of the Regnise mpaign team, and the director of Atralians For Equaly, Tiernan says that about 1, 300 muny anisatns, fah groups, unns and rporatns will help make the se for same-sex groups Jt Equal and Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays, mpaigng anistn Get Up, polil parti Labor and the Greens, and Coaln members Libs and Nats for Y will also mpaign for y.

GAY MARRIAGE ADVOT PREPARE FOR ATRALIAN POSTAL VOTE

Image source, Getty ImagTwenty years after Tasmania beme the last remag Atralian state to crimalise male homosexualy, the untry is havg s say on same-sex marriage. I've been lled a homophobe, a bigot and been told that my views are disgtg.

Advertisements will also need to be vetted and broadsters mt ensure opposg views are shown or heard on May, Alan Joyce, chief executive of Qantas, Atralia's natnal airle, who is gay, was ambhed durg a speech at a bs breakfast Perth by a man who threw a lemon mergue pie his face. His assailant was reportedly a church-goer opposed to gay marriage. In other untri the policians had the urage to make the cisn as elected members on behalf of the people, " explaed Vce Mchell, a profsor at the Universy of Sydney Bs ptn, Prof Vce Mchell believ the postal ballot will have a cleansg effect on AtraliaAtralia hered anti-gay laws om Brish lonisers, who arrived towards the end of the 18th Century.

THOANDS RALLY FOR GAY MARRIAGE BEFORE ATRALIAN POSTAL VOTE CLOS

Until 1949, the ath penalty remaed on the statute books for sodomy the southern state of Victoria, but bold legislative change did eventually e September 1975, when South Atralia clared that male homosexualy would no longer be a crime. In between, police arrted more than 50 people at the first Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para Sydney Mchell believ that, although ntroversial, the postal ballot uld have a cleansg effect on a untry that ntu to harbour unease and mistst about same-sex relatnships.

"Still wh (Atralian) society there is some latent phobia about what gay relatnships stand for, " he told the BBC. The anti-reform Coaln for Marriage hop to nvce the uncid that should same-sex upl be allowed to marry there would be ser nsequenc for children, who would be exposed to "radil" views on homosexualy schools. Amics say the fight over gay marriage Atralia is a classic polil mpaign of "hope vers fear".

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