Rodney Croome . gay advocate

The joys of blogging

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:21:37 GMT

Apologies to all my regular readers for not posting since August. My break from blogging has been the longest since I began in March 2004. So much has happened that I would previously have rushed to blog about - the passage of Australia's first marriage equality motion through the Tasmanian Parliament, the first ever official meeting between a Prime Minister and LGBT community reps, the release of the world's best ever marriage equality advertisement here in Australia, the Labor...

The real marriage equality debate

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:05:37 GMT

There has been a lot of activity on marriage equality in the lead up to next week's report-back on the issue by federal MPs. In the last week we've seen several rallies for and one against. We've also seen the launch of a...

Putting hate away

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:10:55 GMT

Daniel Stanley had a big weekend. He went to Victoria. It was the first time he had been outside his house for three weeks. At the beginning of the month Daniel was the victim of an anti-gay bashing in his home town of Ulverstone. Unfortunately, such attacks are periodic in Tasmania. They have even been given the name of...

Gay Gestapo

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:25:02 GMT

It's been a day since Loree Rudd, sister of Kevin, was reported as labelling marriage equality advocates "the global gay Gestapo" (for a look at the kind of despicable people she's talking about, click

Wake-up call

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:39:47 GMT

The NSW ALP has failed to join its counterparts in other states by endorsing marriage equality. Instead, it has hand-balled the issue to the National Conference later in the year. It's some compensation that leading Labour figures like Anthony Albanese and Paul Howes gave...

Freedom to marry

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:39:14 GMT

The achievement of marriage equality in New York has received much more attention than I expected. Commentary from the US says New York is important because it is by far the largest...

The long march

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:54:53 GMT

Western Australia is the next state in the long march to the ALP National Conference in December. On Saturday ALP state delegates will debate a motion calling for marriage equality. It helps that WA Labor leader, Eric Ripper, has...

'It's not important'

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:58:06 GMT

The Queensland ALP State Conference has voted to support marriage equality. This means a majority of state and territory conferences have endorsed...

Conviction

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:52:21 GMT

This week Senator Guy Barnett gave his valedictory speech. He was not re-elected last year, after being demoted to a hard-to-win position on the Tasmanian Liberal Senate ticket. Few equality supporters will lament his departure. GB tried to sabotage the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Tasmania in 1997. He begrudged the state's Relationships Act in...

Shhh!!!

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:43:41 GMT

Crikey.com has published an article by Brian Greig highlighting the likelihood of an increasingly-embarrassed Labor Party trying to shut down the marriage equality debate by establishing a Labor-friendly sock-puppet...