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GLAAD Awards screening in Australia

For the first time in the 19 year history of the GLAAD Media Awards, they are going to screen the ceremony on Aussie TV. The GLAAD Media Awards recognise and honour media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Awards will be shown on ARENA on Thursday 5th June at 9:30pm. This year’s award ceremony will be hosted by gay comedian Jade Esteban Estrada, and it will include appearances by Kevin Bacon, Billy Baldwin, Jennifer Beals, Ilene Chaiken, Cindy Crawford, Alan Cumming, Sally Field, Kathy Griffin, Mariska Hargitay, Janet Jackson, T.R. Knight, Kyra Sedgwick, Sharon Stone, Barbara Walters and Rufus Wainwright.

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Gay Couples Get Financial Equality

The Federal Government is introducing legislation into parliament that will give gay couples the same rights as de facto heterosexual couples in terms of taxation, superannuation, social security and aged care.  However, the government stops short of legally recognising gay couples as one of their election promises was not to introduce same-sex marriage. Yes, you heard that right, to pander to the homophobic Christian voters, the government promised never to legalise same-sex marriage.

Now, I am happy that Lelak and I will finally be recognised as a couple for our 2009 tax return instead of having to file as two separate individuals.  We may actually get a decent tax return.  However, I am pissed off that the Rudd government won’t grow a pair of balls and introduce civil unions for gay and straight couples. Come on, Kevin Rudd, make some ground breaking legislation and give gay couples legal recognition.  Call it a civil union so that you can keep your promise of not legalising same-sex marriage,  it is just a name.  All I want is the same right afforded every other citizen in this country and that is to have my relationship legally recognised and respected.  I am sick of living like a second class citizen in my own country.

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Number plate of a wholesale meat truck - “MRPORK”

Seen on a restaurant chalkboard - “Soup of the Day - Pumpin & Chives”

Mmmm… gotta get me some of that pumpin soup.

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Stunning Photography

Smashing Magazine has a feature of the 50 most stunning photos online. The photos are absolutely gorgeous. I wish I could take a photo that looked half as good as these photos.

I really can not decide what photo I love the most. It is either this one;

or perhaps this one

or maybe this one

Actually I just love them all. they are just so beautiful.

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Horrors of the Mind

This news story broke today - a woman in Austria who was kept locked in a basement by her father for 24 years. If that was not bad enough, her father raped and abused her and she gave birth to 7 children, 6 of whom are still alive. The horrors go on, three of those kids were “adopted” by the father who told his wife that the daughter abandoned them on the doorstep. The other three kids (now aged 19,18 and 5) were kept locked in the basement with their mother. These kids have never seen sunshine nor have they received any education.

Imagine the life of that poor girl being subjected to those horrors for so long and her kids who have spent their entire lives in only a handful of rooms locked away from the rest of the world. It is more than I can truly comprehend. How are those kids going to adjust to the outside world? They will never be normal and it is doubtful they will ever gain employment. Imagine being that man’s wife not knowing that your daughter had not run away but was locked up under your floorboards raising three kids as you raised the other three who you thought she had abandoned. That would seriously fuck with your mind. You would never be the same after discovering that horrible secret.

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