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Contents:

• IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL ATRALIA
• ‘THIS IS SO WONRFUL': GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL ATRALIA
• ATRALIAN PRIME MISTER SH GAY MARRIAGE TO LAW
• AS GAY ATRALIANS HEAR WEDDG BELLS, VENDORS SEE DOLLAR SIGNS
• ATRALIA JT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE AND PEOPLE CAN'T STOP CELEBRATG
• OPNAMERI'S 'GAY WEDDG KE' URT CISN AND WHAT MEANS FOR ATRALIA
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL ATRALIA

“People that thk gay people makg a mment is a threat to her marriage fails to realise that the real threat is lack of mment, ” Mr Turnbull said.

7, 2017SYDNEY, Atralia — Atralia’s Parliament voted overwhelmgly to legalize same-sex marriage on Thursday, overg years of nservative ristance to enact change that the public had ma clear that fal approval the Hoe of Reprentativ, wh jt four vot agast the bill, me three weeks after a natnal referendum showed strong public support for gay marriage. “It is a huge affirmatn of the digny of gay people yet another untry, and that will reverberate the liv of people across Atralia and the world.

Turnbull noted that nothg the legislatn requir misters or other celebrants to oversee weddgs of gay upl or threatens the chary stat of relig groups that oppose same-sex marriage, two ncerns the lawmakers had fal bate the Hoe of Reprentativ, which lasted four days, featured more than 100 the first day, there was a marriage proposal: Tim Wilson, a gay member of Parliament wh the center-right Liberal Party, spoke of the stggl he and his partner, Ryan Bolger, had enuntered as a uple, before chokg up, fdg him the public gallery and askg: “Ryan Patrick Bolger, will you marry me? ”For many lawmakers and gay-rights advot workg behd the scen, the bate took on the feel of a munal reckong wh Atralia’s long history of one pot, Adam Bandt, a Greens Party lawmaker om Melbourne, psed for a moment of silence after referrg to the “nocent blood” of gay Atralians who were hurt durg the long battle for marriage Shorten, lear of the opposn Labor Party, asked for fivens “for the long lay, for the jtic and the digni both great and small.

‘THIS IS SO WONRFUL': GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL ATRALIA

”He also paid tribute to a Labor Party lleague, Senator Penny Wong, a gay polician who he said had walked “a lonely road and a hard road” to help change Atralia. Advot for gay marriage assailed the Turnbull ernment’s cisn to hold the referendum, llg a layg tactic tend to appease his party’s far-right factn. ”Many other gay Atralians said they had been hurt and trated by the referendum procs.

“The nversatn around marriage equaly was beg domated by those who were agast , ” said Tristan Meecham, the artistic director of the performance pany All the Queens Men and the founr of the Comg Back Out Ball, meant to enurage olr gay Atralians not to return to the out of the discsn, he add, were issu that go beyond marriage, such as the way olr men and women al wh earlier trmas tied to prejudice and gay bashg, or suici among teenagers alg wh issu of genr and sexualy. This bate has been my life ever sce I knew I was gay.

”In many untri where same-sex marriage is already legal, the tangible effects of stutnal acceptance have bee more visible, and posive, studi have study published earlier this year, the journal JAMA Pediatrics, found that rcg societal stigma through marriage legalizatn had led to a 14 percent rctn suici attempts among lbian, gay and bisexual Wolfson said that both the Uned Stat and Spa, which legalized same-sex marriage 2005, polls have found support for same-sex marriage growg stead of dimishg, a sign of the laws’ posive effects.

ATRALIAN PRIME MISTER SH GAY MARRIAGE TO LAW

Is Gay Marriage Legal Atralia? Gay marriage is legal Atralia and has been legal sce 9 December that date, upl of the same genr n get married Atralia and same-sex upl who married overseas n have their marriag regnised unr Atralian legalisatn occurred through the Marriage Amendment (Defn and Relig Freedoms) Act 2017 that altered the fn of marriage to be “the unn of two people to the excln of all others, voluntarily entered to for life.

”Prevly, marriage was fed as specifilly between a man and a legalisatn of same-sex marriage was long-awaed me after a natnwi voluntary postal survey om September to November 2017 that asked cizens of Atralia to rpond to the qutn of whether the law should be changed to allow for gay postal survey was not pulsory and the ernment was not obliged to act acrdg to the rult. Shortly after, the Bill was passed through parliament, legalisg gay this, Atralian history only showed one attempt to legalise gay marriage, and that was the Atralian Capal Terrory (ACT) 2013, where a marriage equaly bill was marriag were briefly allowed December 2013 until the High Court of Atralia termed that this act was valid bee the ACT’s new fn of marriage nflicted wh the feral fn of marriage at the Marriage Amendment (Defn and Relig Freedoms) Act 2017 was the first to change the feral fn of the first year of legalisatn, nearly 5, 500 same-sex marriag were performed Atralia. Among them was Christe Forster, the gay sister of Tony Abbott, the former Atralian Prime Mister who has long been seen as the face of the “no” mpaign.

AS GAY ATRALIANS HEAR WEDDG BELLS, VENDORS SEE DOLLAR SIGNS

Opponents of the chang argued they would legalize discrimatn agast the gay muny. The next day, Liberal MP Andrew Wallace, who is a vout Catholic, shared wh his lleagu how his gay dghter helped change his posn on same-sex marriage. “She said: Dad, the years to e, my generatn will look back and judge your generatn about how you al wh the issue of homosexualy the same way that your generatn nsired your parents’ generatn the way that they alt wh our digeno people, ” Wallace said.

Fightg back tears, Liberal MP Sarah Henrson told the story Wednday night of a close gay iend of hers who died months ago and who, one of their last nversatns, asked her to ntue to ph for same-sex marriage. Melbourne uple Amy and Elise McDonald beme the first gay pair Victoria to legally wed unr new same-sex marriage laws for siar reasons, the Herald Sun surprise weddg at Carlton Garns me about bee the uple had a mment ceremony planned for this weekend. Gay marriage Atralia beme a law Friday as the prime mister gaed a fal signature on a bill hours after was overwhelmgly endorsed by Parliament, and the natn started planng weddgs that n take place a month.

Cosgrove's signature mak gay marriage legal Atralia om Saturday, when same-sex upl who wed overseas will be regnized as married unr Atralian law. Coupl who tend to marry mt give a lendar-month notice, makg gay weddgs legal on Jan. Relativ have ntted wills that left tat to same-sex partners, and gays and lbians want rights to accs and medil nsultatn when a partner is hospalized.

ATRALIA JT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE AND PEOPLE CAN'T STOP CELEBRATG

Turnbull scribed Parliament votg late Thursday for gay marriage, wh only four lawmakers registerg their opposn, as a historic moment. Celebratns ntued late to the night Oxford Street, the center of Sydney's gay nightlife which is Turnbull's electorate. Turnbull has been a long-term advote for marriage equaly and is the first prime mister to attend Sydney's renowned annual Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, which is also his electorate.

Gay marriage was endorsed by 62 percent of voters who rpond to a natnal postal ballot by November.

Most gay rights advot believed the ernment should have allowed marriag years ago and saw var ias for a public survey as a layg tactic. While there are fewer and fewer rights and obligatns attached to married upl which do not attach to facto upl—a stat currently enpassg same-sex upl most legal ntexts—supporters of gay rights argue this is not enough, and that the remag differenc are unacceptable.

OPNAMERI'S 'GAY WEDDG KE' URT CISN AND WHAT MEANS FOR ATRALIA

Kev Rudd reversed his opposn to gay marriage May 2013, shortly before regag the Labor learship. In the electn mpaign, Abbott reaffirmed that he would not support legislatn to allow gay marriage. This article looks at the history of the marriage equaly movement  Atralia and s implitns for gay, lbian and transgenr people 2022.

Opponents of gay marriage argued that this regnn of facto relatnships provid gay and lbian people wh sufficient legal regnn. Today, there is both legal and muny acceptance of sexual inti beyond gay and straight, and other genr inti, such as transgenr, transexual and tersex. In a number of the untri (notably those erned by Sharia laws) homosexualy self is illegal.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

CANBERRA, Atralia (AP) — Atralia’s prime mister shed gay marriage to law on Friday by gag a fal signature on a bill hours after was overwhelmg endorsed by Parliament and as the natn started planng weddgs that n take place a Mister Mallm Turnbull traveled to Government Hoe where Governor-General Peter Cosgrove signed the bill to law on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II, Atralia’s nstutnal head of state. Cosgrove’s signature mak gay marriage legal Atralia om Saturday, when same-sex upl who wed overseas will be regnized as married unr Atralian law. ”Turnbull scribed Parliament votg late Thursday for gay marriage, wh only four lawmakers registerg their opposn, as a historic moment.

Celebratns ntued late to the night Oxford Street, the center of Sydney’s gay nightlife which is Turnbull’s electorate. Turnbull has been a long-term advote for marriage equaly and is the first prime mister to attend Sydney’s renowned annual Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, which is also his electorate. ”___This story has been rrected to show that four, not five, lawmakers voted “no” and that the date gay marriag will beg is January 9, not January 6.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

”In total, more than 20 suppliers — cludg terers, florists and planners — donated 40, 000 Atralian dollars, about $31, 470, servic to throw the men, Michael Petchell, 28, and Benjam Grham, 29, a weddg jt two days after the first same-sex marriag were Parliament approved gay marriage December, analysts have predicted the expected crease unns will create a 10 percent boom weddg dtry revenu.