Deep Water: The Real Story

Guardian Australia.

This is fascinating.

I don't know if either of these programmes will be shown in the UK.

Gay Marriage: Next We Take Australia

First Dog On The Moon - See the rest of this cartoon here.

It's Australia's turn to join in the thrilling debate about equal marriage now.

The Guardian have even got a devoted sub-site Same-Sex Marriage (Australia).

Unjoy!

PS Less of this patronising happy-clappy crap, pls.

Gay Media: Going Down Under?

The Star Observer needs your help. We are facing a dire threat.

A perfect storm threatens the Star Observer, the not-for profit publication dedicated to Australia’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans* and intersex community.

We need to raise money to protect the Star, and ensure our community does not lose it's voice.

The independent nature of our reporting makes us a high profile target. Legal battles are a reality of investigative journalism, some battles are over, others ongoing. But the expense and distraction of these battles has been high at a time when the Star Observer has been reinventing itself.

Our community ownership structure prevents us raising funds from shareholders or commercial investors and so we are reaching out to you, our community for help.

Put bluntly, we need your support right now. If just 2,500 of you, our loyal readers, pledged a tiny $30, we will easily hit our funding target.

To see the Star Observer in action, have a look at our site, visit us on Facebook, or read our latest magazines...

Sydney's Star Observer turns to crowdfunding on Pozible. 

Harley Dennett - from Sydney Star Observer - on Guardian Unlimited.

Warning: May contain exaggerations.

PS Sorry about the photo - SSO's choice, not mine. 

Thought For The Day: Pam Ann

“My life is gay. I came up through drag venues and I live in a gated gay community. I know three straight people and they’re questionable, and that’s my mum, my dad and my brother."

Pam Ann interviewed on the Guardian' Australia Culture Blog for Sydney Mardi Gras.

Julia Gillard: Strewth!

Julia Gillard has been asked on a Perth radio program whether her live-in partner, Tim Mathieson, is gay.
Controversial talk back radio host Howard Sattler posed the question to the prime minister on Thursday afternoon on the premise of clearing up rumours and things "you hear."
Sattler said to the prime minister he would offer her a chance to clear up ''myths, rumours, snide jokes and innuendo'' during the interview on Perth's 6PR.
"Tim's gay?" Sattler inquired of the prime minister.
"Well that's absurd," Gillard replied.
"But you hear it," Sattler persisted. "He must be gay, he's a hairdresser. It's not me saying it."
"Well, Howard, I don't know whether every silly thing that gets said is going to be repeated to me now, but to all the hairdressers out there, including the men who are listening, I don't think that in life one can look at a whole profession full of different human beings and say gee, we know something about everyone of those human beings," the prime minister said, before adding "it's absurd."

The Guardian.

Today Howard Sattler was sacked by the station.
Whilst I know there is quite a history of sexist, misogynist and personal attacks on Gillard - and the presenter's tone seems sniggeringly homophobic - this seems absurd.
Was Andrew Marr sacked when he asked about Gordon Brown's alleged depression?
Or was Sue Lawley sacked after she asked Gordon Brown if he was gay?
Ah well, another victory for the ban-everything brigade. 

PS Guardian Comment Is Free Open Thread; 'Julia Gillard's hairdressing partner: does your job stereotype you? Julia Gillard was asked if her partner was gay by a radio host. Tell us what job-related assumptions people make about you'
Shnoreballs!

Australia: U R GAY! LOLZ!!!

If Australia were a car it would look something like this

I mean "gay", of course, in the offensive, playground, politically incorrect sense of the word. As in: "Your Dad's car is totally gay." Or: "That shark was so gay he didn't even manage to take your whole leg off." This is the kind of usage that would you have you arrested in Australia these days, such is the gag-making political correctness of the land they once called the Lucky Country but which now ought more properly to be named the Haringey of the Southern Hemisphere.
When I tell this to people who've never been to Oz they are usually surprised. Australia, they imagine, is a rugged, no-nonsense place where the men all look a bit like Crocodile Dundee (or, at least, the late Steve Irwin), and where their idea of a chat-up line to the Sheilas on Bondi beach is "Hey Sheila. Do you want a ****?" (to which they'll add, if Sheila is reluctant: "Well would you mind just lying there while I have one?")
But it's just not true. Australia handed in its testicles to the progressives long ago...

Somewhat bafflingly, James Delingpole, manages to use this dodgy and nasty intro to write a loopy Telegraph blog championing climate change denial.
Err, well done, mate. Bonzer!

Advertising: Pulled

The above tasteful and subtle online banner ad for Australia's official Gold Coast Tourism - aimed, but of course, at The Gays - has been pulled.
"That image did not represent the tone and style were were going for in our campaign, which is part of carefully planned niche marketing strategy that has been two years in development," GCT's director of communications and marketing services - Ben Pole ! - told the Mumbrella website;

"The image was used as a lead image in news stories about our campaign, which we think is an incorrect interpretation of our marketing strategy. We didn’t want that image reducing our marketing strategy to a crotch shot. So we have removed it from our site."

Julia Gillard: Crap

Julia Gillard, addressing the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday, had a simple lesson on media ethics.
''Don't write crap … Can't be that hard,'' she said.
''And when you have written complete crap, then I think you should correct it.''

The Prime Minister Of Australia there.

Marriage Equality: Wherever Next?

Australia?

• Some more Australian gay marriage video "AWWWWWW!-ness"

Rip & Roll: Ban This Filth!

This - let's be frank - disgusting advert was bannned in Queensland, Australia by billboard company Adshel after complaints from God-fearing Christians from the wonderfully literally named Australian Christian Lobby - on account of the fact that these two dudes are practiaclly bumming.
Sadly a partly Twitter-led campaign by perverts made Adshel change their decision within 24 hours.
Fortunately one of the posters in a Brisbane bus shelter has had the legend "Kill Em All" added, presumably by a Christian.
The Australian Christian Lobby are now campaigning to change the fag-worshiping name of Queensland.
Praise be!