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Contents:
- THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM
- GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
- QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM
Whilst protected by equaly laws, lbian gay and bisexual (LGB) teachers have varyg experienc wh Uned Kgdom schools. Schools are predomantly heteronormative, moreover LGB has been posned as nflict wh disurs of childhood nocence. However, recently there is more expectatn of cln of diverse genr and sexuali. Although how this is enacted is nsistent wh and between schools. By drawg on terview data nducted 2020, this rearch analys the experienc of LGB teachers. Moreover, brgs together two bodi of lerature that do not often speak to each other—rearch that explor teacher inty and rearch that centers LGB teacher inty. Fdgs suggt there are monali between the bodi of rearch, for stance around the importance of ‘beg yourself’ and of teachers’ past experienc. However, there is special signifince for LGB teachers whose inti have historilly been nied schools, bee of their sexual inty. In addn, there is the expectatn unr neoliberalism of dividuals actng cln. As such, the LGB teacher may bee a pedagogil rource. None of this is equally available, although marketized notns of diversy place rponsibily onto the dividual. In their actns, the LGB teacher inty is always profsnal, personal and polil. * gay and lesbian kingdom *
Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea IslandsHistory of same-sex marriage AtraliaMarriage Amendment (Defn and Relig Freedoms) Act 2017Gay Kgdom clar war on AtraliaCato ReefCoral Sea Islands. The Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands (also known as The Gay Kgdom of the Coral Sea - for example on postage stamps) was tablished as a symbolic polil prott by a group of gay rights activists based Atralia.
Found June 2004, the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands was created by a group of gay protters agast the refal of the Atralian ernment to acknowledge same-sex marriag. On Cato Island, the settlers found a mp se they named "Heaven" after the famo gay nightclub London, and set up a post office where they obta funds for the kgdom by "sellg s unique s and stamps". The Gay Government announced that the Emperor would not be attendg the nference on the grounds that the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands beg a former overseas external Terrory of Atralia was not a micronatn.
The pennce of the kgdom is based on Atralia beg guilty of "unjt enrichment", bee of the ernment’s plan to amend the marriage act so as to prevent homosexual upl who were married overseas to have their relatnship regnised. The gay activists believe that the change the marriage law has taken om homosexual people the right to be treated equally, “whether be marriage, superannuatn, hospal viss, adoptn or IVF treatments”. The activists also prume that neher the Uned Kgdom nor Atralia has any rights to the Coral Sea Islands, bee neher ernment has provid to the gay ernment any rerdg of anyone proclaimg the Coral Sea Islands as part of the Brish/Atralian Crown.
GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
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"On the 14th day of June 2004, at this hight pot the Coral Sea, Emperor Dale Parker Anrson raised the gay rabow flag and claimed the islands of the Coral Sea his name as homeland for the gay and lbian peopl of the world. In a scheme siar to Israel's Law of Return, a person is tomatilly granted permanent rint stat and is immediately eligible for cizenship the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands simply by beg gay or lbian. 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.
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. "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.
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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. Even so, the Gay and Lbian Kgdom may fact reprent the first terrorial claim of sovereignty by an LGBTQ group for an pennt gay 'd be easy to wre this seemgly absurd pennce movement off as a creative brand of direct-actn prott—a silly stunt to garner prs for the e.
Yet 's a le of thought that has existed LGBTQ liberatn sce s earlit days, maniftg everythg om a radil proposal to take over a California unty to lbian-only mun to ltle-known groups prently lobbyg for an pennt gay as longstandg tensn wh the LGBTQ muny between social assiatn and separatism—that is, the bate over whether queer people should try to blend wh the rt of society or reject society outright—ntu to churn, the roots and history of queer natnalism seem as relevant as of the rnerstone exampl of a queer natnalist state is known rmally as Stonewall Natn, a 1970 plan to tablish a separatist gay muny Alpe County, a mountao and ral rner of northern California, which, at the time, had 384 registered voters. Activist Don Jackson argued that 'd only take 400 gays and lbians relotg to nstute an electoral majory, eventually leadg to gay ntrol of every elected office lol ernment. "It would mean a gay ernment, a gay civil service, a unty welfare partment which ma public assistance payments to the refuge of persecutn and prejudice.
Historian Lillian Farman, thor of the prehensive gay liberatn overview The Gay Revolutn, told me that some supporters genuely yearned for a sort of gay natn wh a natn; others saw as a prs ploy to monstrate that the gay and lbian movement had teeth.
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 *
"Straight people the 1970s were very upset about the notn that gay people uld take over a town and jt tablish their own ernment there, " Farmen told me.