Gay and lesbian kingdom

Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website. That year was a tough one for queer people in Australia. The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands, whilst a creative approach to tackling discrimination, also demonstrates a radical story of micronationalism.

Already have a WordPress. The idea for the founding of a gay kingdom was taken during the Brisbane Gay and Lesbian Pride Festival in The newly proclaimed Emperor Dale raised the gay rainbow flag and claimed the island in his name as homeland for the gay and lesbian peoples of the world.

Micronations - tiny countries declared by ordinary people - repeat and reproduce the act of establishment maintained by sovereign nations. Like Loading Leave a comment.

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We are not permitted to do so. Sign me up. The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands (also known as the Gay Kingdom of the Coral Sea) was a putative micronation established as a symbolic political protest by a group of gay rights activists based in Australia.

Log in now. Comment Reblog Subscribe Subscribed. In countries where we have lived for centuries, we are still cried down as strangers…. However, swimming, reef walking, lagoon snorkelling, bird-watching, seashell-collecting, and shipwreck-exploring were all gay government-sanctioned non-economic activities.

Inover kilometres off the coast of Queensland, a new, all-gay nation was created: the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands. In vain we are loyal patriots, our loyalty in some places running to extremes; in vain do we make the same sacrifices of life and property as our fellow citizens; in vain do we strive to increase the fame of our native land in science and art, or her wealth by trade and commerce.

By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. Declared in June in response to the introduction of a government bill to the Australian Parliament in May (and passed in September that year) that codified. In Maythe Howard government introduced an amendment bill to “protect the institution of marriage” by defining marriage “the union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others”.

I think we shall not be left in peace. In the world as it is now and for an indefinite period….