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.
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- QUEER SOVEREIGNTY: THE GAY & LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
- 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
- GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
- GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
- THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM
QUEER SOVEREIGNTY: THE GAY & LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
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. * gay and lesbian kingdom of the coral sea islands *
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.
QUEER SOVEREIGNTY: THE GAY & LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
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.
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. The Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands (also known as The Gay Kgdom) was erected by gay right activists 2004 to prott agast the Atralian ernment refal to regnize same-sex marriage.
GAY & LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
Based on the law of ‘Unjt Enrichment’ and wh reference to ternatnal law, which stat ‘Opprsed people of overseas terrori have a right to self ernment and self termatn’, the activists claimed ‘terrorial pensatn’ by tablishg an pennt gay state on a group of unhabed islets east of the Great Barrier Reef. The kgdom was dissolved when the Atralian ernment legalized gay marriage 2017.
This ‘homeland’ even has a Gloria Gaynor 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 clared the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea 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 a tip?
Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea IslandsFrom Wikipedia, the ee encyclopediaJump to: navigatn, searchThe Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands is a micronatn tablished as a symbolic polil prott by a group of gay rights activists based southeast Queensland & Lbian Kgdomof the Coral Sea IslandsFlagMotto: tbaMil Anthem: I am what I amType of enty:MicronatnLotn:Coral Sea IslandsArea claimed:Coral Sea Island TerroryMembership:Gay & Lbian peopleDate of foundatn:14 June 2004Learship:Emperor Dale I(Dale Parker Anrson)Purported anisatnal stcture:Constutnal monarchyLanguage:EnglishPurported currency:EuroContents[hi]1 History2 Emperor3 Petn to Atralia4 Referenc5 External lksHistoryMap of the claimed 'kgdom'On June 14, 2004, the group 'claimed' the Coral Sea Island Terrory and 'seced' om Atralia after sailg to the largt island the group and raisg the rabow flag there. The clu two Amerin-based groups, the Gay and Lbian Commonwealth Kgdom, head by Jaix Broox, and the Unified Gay Tribe, led by Bill Freeman and Enrique Pérez, and the German based Gay Homeland Foundatn led by Victor Zimmermann.
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
EmperorEmperor Dale I (Dale Parker Anrson)Emperor Dale was a member of the Gay and Lbian Board of Admistrators and at the age of 38 was elected Sovereign of Kgdom on the June 14, the gay muny have asked why the Board chose a Monarchy over a Republic as the gay natn’s form of ernment.
At this stage both emotnal and physil fear were very real to the gay people occupyg the Coral Sea islands. Therefore the gay people, to ga add protectn by law than that which they already had unr ternatnal law, the Board adopted the stat of an pennt Kgdom rather than a republic which offered them no protectn unr Atralian law. Petn to AtraliaAfter a June 13 plebisce on secsn that rulted a 100% pro-secsn vote, the gay ernment prented the issue of secsn to Atralia’s Governor General and to the Atralian Parliament, along wh pi of the Kgdom’s claratn of pennce.
To this end, the legislative assembly submted three qutns for legal advice, which were answered a 2004 Reference Opn:Unr the Atralian nstutn, n the Gay Assembly, legislature or ernment of the Gay and Lbian kgdom effect the secsn of the Coral Sea Island Terrory om Atralia unilaterally? Do ternatnal law give the Gay Assembly, legislature or ernment of the Coral Sea Island Terrory the right to effect the secsn of the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands om Atralia unilaterally?
GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
In the event of nflict between domtic and ternatnal law on the issue of the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands unilateral secsn, which would take precence Atralia? Wh rpect to Qutn one, the legal advice given stated that the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands may unilaterally sece om Atralia and be nsired lawful dog so. Implicly ncedg that the Atralian Constutn allowed other former overseas Atralian terrori of Papua New Guea, the N and the Cos Keelg Islands the right to self termatn wh Papua New Guea and N choosg to bee pennt rpect to Qutn two: the legal advice obtaed by the Gay and Lbian Kgdom siarly held that ternatnal law do nfer a right to unilaterally sece on eher the cizens of the Coral Sea Islands or s reprentative stutns.
GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
Focg on the fact that ternatnal law plac great importance on the terrorial tegry of natn stat, the legal advice stated that ternatnal law th perms unilateral secsn on elements the gay people of the Coral Sea Islands were an opprsed people and that the Gay and Lbian Kgdom a lonised overseas terrory. The legal advice also noted that the homosexual people occupyg the Coral Sea Island Terrory have endured threats to their existence and human rights.
After listg numero, areas of equaly and discrimatn faced by homosexual people all areas of Atralian ernment legislatn, law and life – as well as the var social, polil, cultural, and enomic rights that they do not enjoy – the legal advice found that the Coral Sea Islands did meet this legal advice also found that opprsn to be the ma argument that ternatnal law implicly perms unilateral secsn and acknowledged that var Uned Natns documents clare the importance of self termatn furtherg s goals of global peace and stabily. Unr the circumstanc, and aid by the facts listed above, the legal advice siarly nclud that the Gay and Lbian people of the Coral Sea Islands had every right to secsn and self termatn and to clare the Coral Sea Islands and Inpennt Sovereign Gay and Lbian Kgdom unr ternatnal law. Therefore, the legal advice found unnecsary to answer Qutn Government of the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands claimed victory followg the cisn on the grounds that the Gay and Lbian Kgdom has a right to self termatn as the law appli to them as they are an opprsed and lonised people who have been nied fundamental human rights.
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.
THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM
[3][4][5] On 13 September 2004, the Gay Kgdom clared war on Atralia. 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”.
Instead of fancial pensatn, the activists have chosen “terrorial pensatn” by tablishg an pennt gay state on a stterg of tropil islands the Coral Sea. The iative for the foundg of a gay kgdom was taken durg the Brisbane Gay and Lbian Pri Ftival. 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.