ABOUT — GAYTIMES

Contents:

• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• GOLN GAYTIME: 98 PER CENT OF ATRALIANS VOTE TO KEEP STREETS INIC ICE CREAM NAME
• GAY TIM SACKS EDOR AFTER ANTISEMIC AND OFFENSIVE TWEETS EMERGE
• A TRIBUTE TO GOLN GAYTIME: ATRALIA'S FAVOURE ICE CREAM
• ATRALIAN MAN LNCH PETN TO RENAME ‘OFFENSIVE’ GOLN GAYTIME
• ATRALIA’S CUR PATH TO LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• ASIE MAN LNCH PETN TO GET GOLN GAYTIM RENAMED
• THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRYGaytim wish to acknowledge the tradnal owners and ctodians of the land on which the event tak place, the Bunurong/Boon Wurng and Wundjeri People of the Kul Natn, and pay rpects to their elrs past and prent.

Cosmopolan Sydney is nsired Atralia’s gay pal and boasts more LGBTQIA+-foced venu than any other cy the untry, spread across several neighbourhoods (see below). And the spa untry of ral Victoria, about a 90-mute drive om Melbourne, the town of Daylford (nicknamed “Gaylford”) is a thrivg getaway spot for rabow upl and sgl. In Perth, you’ll fd a ncentratn of welg venu the cy centre and the nearby suburbs Maylands and Bayswater (between 10 and 15 mut’ drive away), which are affectnally referred to as “Gaylands” and “Gayswater”.

November is also Pri Month Brisbane: annual events anised by Brisbane Pri clu the glzy Queens Ball, which origated on Tambore Mounta the Gold Coast hterland the 1960s, when homosexualy was still crimalised.

GOLN GAYTIME: 98 PER CENT OF ATRALIANS VOTE TO KEEP STREETS INIC ICE CREAM NAME

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. ”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. “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.

GAY TIM SACKS EDOR AFTER ANTISEMIC AND OFFENSIVE TWEETS EMERGE

”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.

A TRIBUTE TO GOLN GAYTIME: ATRALIA'S FAVOURE ICE CREAM

Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras – SGLMG is one of the olst and ntuoly operatg LGBTQ+ anizatns Atralia and was built on the foundatns laid by early muny activists who fought for queer rights a time of opprsn. Midsumma Ftival - this annual ftival  Melbourne is one of Atralia’s leadg and long-nng LGBTQ+ events and is nsired alongsi Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras as one of the major pri celebratns the untry.

ATRALIAN MAN LNCH PETN TO RENAME ‘OFFENSIVE’ GOLN GAYTIME

Jt sayg — Mch Feltscheer (@mchfel) July 13, 2023The cleart harbger of this era is the double whammy of gay pop that Atralia has produced recent months. It is, perhaps, the bt fence of twk Rh is merely a chaser to that other tentpole of gay Atraliana: Kylie Mogue, whose sgle Padam Padam skyrocketed to the top 10 of the UK charts last month and has (mostly) stayed there sce. How lucky we are to be livg through the entire spectm of queer all, evably, serv as a precursor to Sydney WorldPri – that 17-day party earlier this year rponsible for the stctn of every gay person’s sleepg habs.

Atralians are urgg ice cream giant Streets to keep the name of s inic Goln Gaytime followg a petn that lled for to be 1150 people have signed the petn that argu the name of the ice cream, which was first released 1959, was “outdated” and “offensive” – and implor for the term “gay” to be banished om s rears have spoken out agast the requt, wh a whoppg 98 per cent votg to keep the renowned a survey published on Wednday, more than 45, 000 voters said the name is “harmls and not offensive”.

ATRALIA’S CUR PATH TO LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

RELATED: Why renamg Goln Gaytim would be a terrible cisnOver 1000 agreed wh the petn set up by an Atralian man known only as Brian Mc who said he felt was “time that the Goln Gaytime is lled out for beg outdated, pecially when Streets is releasg new products and cross promotns 2021” a statement to NCA NewsWire, Streets strsed the word “gay” had not been applied to genr preference when the product was first released the 1950s. “The orig of the ‘Gaytime’ name was and remas related to havg a joyo or happy time and is meant to pture the pleasure that wh enjoyg an ice cream, ” a spokperson said a statement. “Jt to be a gay man, even 2021 is still hard … (we) still have a long way to go to be fully accepted as equals, but if we see an area life that’s not equal, and we are able to change for the better, why wouldn’t you speak up, ” Mr Mc said.

ASIE MAN LNCH PETN TO GET GOLN GAYTIM RENAMED

The edor of Gay Tim has been sacked for tweetg a seri of antisemic and misogynistic ments as well as g Twter to attack gay people, homels people and disabled Rivers, the first BME edor of a gay men’s magaze, took the posn only last month, but his future was placed jeopardy after a strg of cendiary posts on his Twter acunt between 2010 and 2015 me to light. He was spend by the magaze on Wednday and on Thursday morng, announced that had dismissed a statement, said: “After an vtigatn of the facts surroundg historil tweets by Josh Rivers, the newly appoted Edor of Gay Tim magaze; we announce that his employment has been termated wh immediate effect. Every Atralian has enjoyed a Gaytime at some stage of their life, but for non-Atralians who’ve been prived of the privilege, troduce yourself to the toffee, cholate and honeyb masterpiece that is Atralia’s favoure ice cream.

The sweet, sweet history Streets released the first Goln Gaytime 1959 and the humble ice cream quickly beme an Asie summer staple throughout the Swgg Sixti.

THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA

Of urse, when the label was first cid, the word ‘gay’ didn’t rry the homosexual nnotatn do now—but Streets’ marketers have never been shy of the cheeky double entendre.

Sce the 1980s, the product’s slogan has been: “It’s hard to have a Gaytime on your own”, and the four-pack supermarket box rry the tagle, “Four lic chanc to have a gay time.