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Australian Marriage Equality
For many Australians marriage is a profoundly meaningful way to demonstrate love and commitment. Denying anyone that right
because of their gender or sexuality is simply not fair.
Most Australians pride themselves on our nation's commitment to a
fair go for all yet in 2004 the federal parliament amended the law
to prevent same-sex couples from marrying.
As a result, we also refuse
to recognise same-sex marriages legally entered into in
a growing number of countries around the world such as Canada, Spain and South Africa.
Australian Marriage Equality is campaigning
to change the law so that civil marriage is available to all Australians.
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I Do, I Do, I Do
7 May 2008
Nine years after
meeting my boyfriend, we wished each other a happy anniversary and listened as
Robert McClelland informed us that we had been discriminated against “for too
long”...more
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Mildred Loving Followed Her Heart and Made
History
3 May 2008
Mildred Loving died
yesterday at her home in Virginia, USA, aged 68. In 1967, in the case of
Loving v. Virginia, the US Supreme Court struck down laws that prohibited
blacks and whites from marrying...more
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No Marriage in Government's Gay Reforms
30 April 2008
Same-sex couples will continue to be
denied marriage, adoption rights and IVF despite the government's
decision to remove discrimination against gays in a range of
commonwealth laws...more
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Never Too Late: Lesbians Marry In Nursing Home
24 April 2008
Ruth Pogson, 83, and
Beth Aime, 79, were married yesterday in a civil wedding
ceremony as relatives, friends and other residents of the
Island View nursing home in Victoria, Canada looked on...more
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Norway Next In Line For Equal Marriage
14 March 2008
The Norwegian
government introduced legislation today to provide for
same-sex marriage with gay rights groups having complained
that current arrangements had created two classes of
citizenship...more
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Registrar-General Apologises To Same-Sex Couple:
Current Laws Compromise My Staff
23 February 2008
The Queensland Registrar-General for Births,
Deaths and Marriages, David Mackie, has apologised to a same-sex couple...more
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Al Gore Speaks Out in Favour of Same-Sex Marriage
23 January 2008
Former US Vice
President and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Al Gore, has spoken out in favour
of same-sex marriage in a video released last week on his website, Current TV...more
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Overwhelming Support For Equal Marriage in Sweden
22 January 2008
As
the Swedish government prepares to take up legislation that would allow same-sex
couples to marry a new poll shows the idea has the support of 71% of the
electorate...more
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Gay Wedding Opens Sydney Festival
9 January 2008
This year’s Sydney
Festival opened last Saturday, 5 January, with the wedding of New Mardi Gras
Director Greg Small and Avan Tiong in front of approximately 20,000 onlookers...more
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Gay Nobel Nominee Weds Partner
6 January 2008
South African AIDS
activist Zackie Achmat and his partner Dali Weyers married yesterday in the
presence of close friends and family at the Imperial Yacht Club in Lakeside,
near Cape Town...more
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Irish Gay Rights Group Takes On Civil Partnerships
16 December 2007
A new
Irish gay rights group organised its first protest yesterday
in Dublin in the company of Ann-Louise Gilligan and Katherine Zappone (of the
KAL case)...more
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UK Civil Partnerships Not Equal Study Says
7 December 2007
A
new report launched in Britain this week to coincide with
the second anniversary of civil partnerships has found there
remains significant disparities with civil marriage...more
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