hey hey! ho ho! homophobia's got to go!

As I mentioned a few days ago here, 1 August was Australia’s National Day of Action for Same-Sex Marriage.

Demonstrations were held in every capital city of Australia as our community called for the right to be legally married. Zanne and I were stoked to attend Brisbane's rally - we waved our placards and screamed our lungs out for same-sex marriage.

The result of our collective efforts?:

"Gay rights advocates lost a backroom battle at the ALP National Conference to advance the recognition of same-sex couples.

Instead Labor agreed to a compromise removing the explicit definition of marriage being between a man and a woman from its national platform.

And across the country Labor will continue towards a nationally-consistent framework for the registration of same-sex unions."

Read The Age's full article here.

It is a disappointing result however, as Corey Irlam from the Australian Coalition for Equality notes, it is a positive change:

"For the first time ever the Australian Labor Party has the words lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex in their platform."

We have a ways to go, but I believe we'll get there eventually. Why? Well, because figures suggest the majority of Australians support same-sex marriage, and further, because last Saturday there were hundreds of people in Brisbane all passionately yelling:

What do we want?
Same-sex marriage!
When do we want it?
Now!
And how we gonna get it?

Fight for it!

And I honestly believe we're all gonna fight for it. As I mentioned here peeps, write to the government, take action!

Shan

PS. Kat of Rock n Roll Bride has also blogged about Australia’s National Day of Action for Same-Sex Marriage. Read her post and see photos of the demonstations in Melbourne here.