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- THOANDS RALLY FOR GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA AHEAD OF VOTE
- WHY A PLANNED VOTE ON GAY MARRIAGE HAS DIVID ATRALIA
THOANDS RALLY FOR GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA AHEAD OF VOTE
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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. 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.
WHY A PLANNED VOTE ON GAY MARRIAGE HAS DIVID ATRALIA
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".
[nL4N1LB1TJ]Rally aniser Anthony Wallace om activist group Equal Love said 15, 000 people attend the event, makg one of the largt gay rights ralli Atralian history. 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. Opponents of the chang argued they would legalize discrimatn agast the gay muny.