It's our 100th episo! And for this special ocsn, Nancy sound signer Jeremy Bloom go on a qut to fd the tth behd a myster gay and lbian island kgdom.
Contents:
- QUEER SOVEREIGNTY: THE GAY & LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
- GAY & LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
- ATRALIA’S LGBT-ONLY ISLANDPARADISE FOUNDMARRIAGE EQUALY DISCRIMATN LED A GROUP OF ATRALIAN ACTIVISTS TO SET THEIR RABOW FLAG ON CATO ISLAND. THIS ‘HOMELAND’ EVEN HAS A GLORIA GAYNOR ANTHEM.NA STROCHLICUPDATED OCT. 11, 2019 3:47PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 18, 2015 6:45AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTWHEN ATRALIA REFED TO ALLOW S GAY CIZENS EQUAL RIGHTS TO MARRIAGE, A GROUP OF ACTIVISTS SERTED THE UNTRY, SAILED 200 NTIL TO AN ISLAND OFF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF AND HOISTED A RABOW FLAG THE HIGHT SPOT THEY ULD FD.THEY CLARED THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS.THE IMPET ME 2004 DURG THE BRISBANE GAY PRI FTIVAL, WHEN A LLECTIVE OF IENDS CID THAT WHOUT BEG GRANTED LEGAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS THEY WOULD LEAVE AND START THEIR OWN MORE CLIVE UNTRY.NA STROCHLIC
- THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM
- GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
QUEER SOVEREIGNTY: THE GAY & LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
Marriage equaly discrimatn led a group of Atralian activists to set their rabow flag on Cato Island. This ‘homeland’ even has a Gloria Gaynor anthem. * gay and lesbian kingdom of the coral *
What n the spectacle of gay natnalism tell about the realy of our smopolan dream?
The Gay & Lbian Kgdom (GLK) seced om Atralia 2004. A set of stamps om the Gay & Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea IslandsWikimedia. Gay & Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands.
Pete troIn 2004, a group of gay rights activists om Atralia tablished the micronatn as a symbolic polil prott, after the ernment of Atralia's refal to regnize same-sex marriag. It was loted Atralia's external overseas terrory of the Coral Sea Islands, unhabed islets east of the Great Barrier iaMatthew Briggs me up wh the iative to tablish the "gay kgdom" durg Brisbane Gay and Lbian Pri Ftival 2003.
GAY & LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
On June 14, 2004, the activists arrived at Cato island on the Gayflower ship, raised the rabow pri flag and clared the Coral Sea Islands an pennt gay and lbian state. The Kgdom was dissolved November 2017 after Atralia legalized gay marriage.
ATRALIA’S LGBT-ONLY ISLANDPARADISE FOUNDMARRIAGE EQUALY DISCRIMATN LED A GROUP OF ATRALIAN ACTIVISTS TO SET THEIR RABOW FLAG ON CATO ISLAND. THIS ‘HOMELAND’ EVEN HAS A GLORIA GAYNOR ANTHEM.NA STROCHLICUPDATED OCT. 11, 2019 3:47PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 18, 2015 6:45AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTWHEN ATRALIA REFED TO ALLOW S GAY CIZENS EQUAL RIGHTS TO MARRIAGE, A GROUP OF ACTIVISTS SERTED THE UNTRY, SAILED 200 NTIL TO AN ISLAND OFF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF AND HOISTED A RABOW FLAG THE HIGHT SPOT THEY ULD FD.THEY CLARED THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS.THE IMPET ME 2004 DURG THE BRISBANE GAY PRI FTIVAL, WHEN A LLECTIVE OF IENDS CID THAT WHOUT BEG GRANTED LEGAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS THEY WOULD LEAVE AND START THEIR OWN MORE CLIVE UNTRY.NA STROCHLIC
As other Wtern mocraci creasgly legalize gay marriage, Atralia still languish due to polil foot-draggg, spe of pollg that dit more than 60 percent of Atralian voters support marriage equaly.
THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM
An outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, Abetz suggted that the flags of anti-gay groups like the Marriage Alliance should also hang alongsi the rabow flag, which he scribed as an activist symbol of a "polil mpaign. "By way of some slight humor on this issue, this particular flag, you will realize, is the flag of the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands, " said Abetz, smirkg as he shuffled a stack of papers.
GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
"The senator was referrg to a ragtag troupe of radil gay activists who, June 2004, claimed an archipelago of ty unhabed islands as their newly formed kgdom—a vast, 300, 000-square-e external terrory of Atralia that's jt off the ast of by their emperor, Dale Parker Anrson, they set out on a ship dubbed the "Gayflower" and sailed for 200 ntil to the Coral Sea Islands Terrory.
Upon landfall, Anrson and his ras planted the rabow flag, their chosen natnal emblem, on ty Cato Island, where they set up a post office, erected a monument and selected Gloria Gaynor's "I Am What I Am" as the natnal anthem.