“And be aware that your emotions may not be that simple. You can feel relief, exhaustion, grief and generally overwhelmed, no matter what the result. It’s okay to feel negative emotions even if you got the result you wanted, and vice versa.” Source: https://www.sane.org/the-sane-blog/wellbeing/self-care-after-hearing-the-same-sex-marriage-result
Leading up to the result of the Australian Marriage Equality vote I was so very apprehensive. This debate has been ugly. And it has been a tough and scarring free for all at times. Sure it’s easy to say ‘both sides’ behaved badly, but that is way too simplistic. Personally I feel this never should …
This song randomly came on tonight… brand new P!nk song, and I am hooked from the first chorus! After her song ‘What about us’ – I think it is fair to say P!nk is well and truely back in the pop game… Have you been here? Have you experienced this? We were on fire I …
Written By Laurence Barber (From Star Observer 20 Sept 2017) Who cares if the ‘no’ camp is offended by our demands for equality? We have every right to be furious. For pretty much our entire lives, we’re forced to think about the version of ourselves we put across in public. As LGBTQIA people, we’re burdened …
I want to preface this with the simple fact two wrongs don’t make a right. No one should be bullied or victimised. Now try to fully empathise with the LGBTI community, bear with me I’m not trying to lecture here. But this is a community which has been having to fight against homophobia and bigotry …
At the moment there is a fight for equal rights in Australia. The government has decided its ‘mandate’ and unchangeable policy is to force the LGBTI community to be subjected to a non-binding postal survey. In my opinion it is a damaging and spiteful survey. Why? The rights of a minority should not be subjected …
The debate over same-sex marriage has the potential to elevate and amplify harmful messages. With the same-sex marriage postal survey now in full swing, children and young people across Australia are about to bear witness to an ugly and prolonged debate, and will also find themselves targeted by it.
Written By Gary Nunn (Reproduced from The Age Sep 18 2017) The marriage equality debate is unearthing attitudes I didn’t realise were so strongly felt in 2017. Whatever you want to call them – some use the term ‘homophobes’; other terms are stronger or more neutral depending on who you ask – one thing is …
Originally Written By Matt Jowett I want to say “find the no vote in your friends list and talk to them” but after the last 45 min Facebook chat with the No vote Christian in my list I want to gouge my eyes out with hot wire. It’s not “okay” to say no, the message …
Originally Written By Samuel Leighton-Dore Nobody was calling for a respectful debate back in 2004, when I was thirteen-years-old, being beaten up on the schoolyard during my first day of high school. Boys were shouting “faggot” across the schoolyard and I was being held by my neck against a brick wall by one of the …
