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Jt three weeks after a natnal referendum showed strong support for gay marriage, Parliament voted overwhelmgly to follow the public’s lead.

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THOANDS RALLY FOR GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA AHEAD OF VOTE

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Dpe polls for years sayg Atralians were favour of sayg Y to gay upl beg allowed to wed, the noise around the mpaign had sudnly gone negative.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SURVEY: 'Y' AND 'NO' MPAIGNS RAMP UP ACROSS ATRALIASAME-SEX MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS HAVE DOORKNOCKED THOANDS OF HOM SYDNEY WHILE OPPONENTS GET READY TO LNCH THEIR "NO" MPAIGN VICTORIA. SOURCE: AAPEQUALY CAMPAIGN -LEAR ALEX GREENWICH HAS URGED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS NOT TO GET DISTRACTED BY THOSE WHO "THROW RED HERRGS".BOTH SIS OF THE MARRIAGE BATE RAMPED UP THEIR MPAIGNG ON SATURDAY WH RALLI, DOOR-KNOCKGS AND TEXT MSAGE AMONG THE MEDIUMS ED.THOANDS RALLIED THROUGH BRISBANE FOR THE ANNUAL PRI FTIVAL WHILE "Y" MPAIGNERS DOORKNOCKED TENS OF THOANDS OF HOM ACROSS THE NATN.MEANWHILE, A SMATTERG OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE OPPONENTS GATHERED SYDNEY'S GAY HEARTLAND WHILE PREPARATNS WERE MA FOR THE COALN FOR MARRIAGE'S VICTORIAN LNCH.MELBOURNE MPAIGNER CELLA WHE - ACCED OF FALSELY CLAIMG HER SON WAS TOLD HE ULD WEAR A DRS TO FRANKSTON HIGH SCHOOL - IS EXPECTED TO SPEAK AT THE CFM EVENT ON SATURDAY NIGHT ABOUT THE ABE SHE HAS RECEIVED SCE APPEARG THE GROUP'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD.MR GREENWICH, WHO IS A NSW MP, URGED SUPPORTERS OF THE Y MPAIGN TO FOC ON THE TASK AT HAND."IT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR THE MARRIAGE EQUALY MPAIGN THAT WE DO NOT GET DISTRACTED BY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALWAYS TRYG TO THROW RED HERRGS," HE TOLD AAP.HE SAID HE WAS HEARTENED BY THE FEEDBACK OM SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS VOLVED THE DOOR-KNOCKG MPAIGN AND SAID THERE WAS STRONG SUPPORT "ACROSS ALL MOGRAPHICS, ALL AG".THE MPAIGN ALSO EXTEND TO SMS WH A MSAGE URGG PEOPLE TO "VOTE YES FOR A FAIRER ATRALIA" AND HELP MAKE HISTORY.ON THE OTHER SI OF THE BATE, ABOUT 20 PEOPLE TURNED OUT FOR A RALLY DUBBED STRAIGHT LIV MATTER RALLY SYDNEY'S LGBTIQ HEARTLAND, DARLGHURST.ORGANISED BY A GROUP OF SELF-SCRIBED PATRTS, ONE OF THE SPEAKERS URGED PEOPLE TO PH BACK AGAST THE "SICK AND VILE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA" ATRALIAN SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSI."NO AMOUNT OF SURGIL MUTILATN BY SOME DODGY SURGEON THE PHILIPP N MAKE YOU A WOMAN," TOBY COOKE SAID.ATRALIAN CHRISTIAN LOBBY CHIEF LYLE SHELTON, AND KEH MILLS, THE LEAR OF IRELAND'S UNSUCCSFUL NO MPAIGN, ARE EXPECTED TO ADDRS THE COALN FOR MARRIAGE MELBOURNE.CFM HAS THIS WEEK BEEN HOLDG MEETGS ACROSS ATRALIA TO NVCE VOTERS TO REJECT A CHANGE TO THE LEGAL FN OF MARRIAGE.THE RULT OF THE VOLUNTARY POSTAL SURVEY ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS DUE ON NOVEMBER 15.MORE NEWS'Y' MPAIGN DOOR KNOCKG FOR SUPPORT'VOTE NO' MSAGE APPEARS ABOVE SYDNEYSAME-SEX MARRIAGE: CHRISTE FORSTER LASH 'NO' MPAIGNSAME-SEX MARRIAGE: AFL RESIGNS LOGO TO SUPPORT 'Y' MPAIGNSHARE3 M READPUBLISHED 23 SEPTEMBER 2017 7:14PMUPDATED 23 SEPTEMBER 2017 10:15PMSOURCE: AAPTAGSSOCIAL ISSUNEW SOUTH WALSYDNEYSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

”Mr Brady said they had to be “relentlsly posive” by enuragg gay people to tell their stori to iends, lleagu and relativ, believg that would ronate more profoundly. The amendment of the feral Marriage Act on 9 December 2017 gave same-sex upl the same right to marry as heterosexual was the culmatn of s of mpaigng by the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, queer, and asexual (LGBTIQA+) muni and their passg of the Bill the Hoe of Reprentativ was seen as a watershed moment for equal rights Atralia. In 2018, about 76 untri still crimalise homosexual activy.

Penalti for homosexual acts have varied across the stat and terrori but all have clud terms of imprisonment and dividuals were still beg arrted and charged to the 1970s.

ATRALIA VOT FOR GAY MARRIAGE, CLEARG PATH TO LEGALIZATN

Decrimalisatn of homosexualyFrom the 1960s the socially progrsive South Atralian Labor ernment wanted to repeal laws crimalisg homosexualy. However, was not until the May 1972 murr Alai of Dr Gee Dunn, a law lecturer and gay man, that premier, Don Dunstan, asssed that the muny mood was receptive to Dunn’s murr led to revelatns of how monplace vlence and harassment agast homosexual people Atralia’s Crimal Law (Sexual Offenc) Act, was enacted on 2 October 1975. It was a landmark LGBTQIA+ rights Atralia bee fully crimalised homosexual acts.

‘We are fay’ lead float, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para, 1992. Atralian Marriage Equaly B, Sydney Gay andLbian Mardi Gras, 2012. Proment Tasmanian gay rights activist Rodney Croome was also the was, said Geralde, John Howard's marriage amendments that sparked much-need actn a muny at the crossroads.

Only a year ago I was at a functn where someone me up to me and said I had stroyed the sancty of gay marriage.

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