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July 18
Eye on parenting
Same sex parenting is clearly on the rise in WA, and has today made its way into the pages of the West Australian. New parents Leonie and Marnie Woodley and Josh O’Keefe, along with their son Quinn Silas Woodley-O’Keefe are featured on pages 2 and 23. Josh is the biological father of Quinn, who was created with an egg from Marnie and carried by surrogate Leonie. Josh will stay an active donor as Dad and help raise Quinn with his two mothers.
The feature gives great insight into the hardships, difficult decisions and determination involved same sex parenting; issues often overlooked by those who oppose, and indeed the wider general public. While trying not to drag the four of them into becoming a case study for political debate, the sharing of their journey gives ammunition in dispelling the many myths surrounding same sex parenting.
At first glance, this family flies in the face of many who argue that a child born, or adopted, to gay parents is at a disadvantage because of the lack of a male or female role model. … “We’ll raise our child with open-mindedness and we expect others to do the same and treat his family with the same respect that we expect our son to treat other family units” [said Marnie].
“At the end of the day we love Quinn more than anything,” says Josh. “Quinn is the priority and his wellbeing is number one… what form the family takes is irrelevant.”
All fantastic messages to be promoting. A personal annoyance of mine is the gap in justification between drugged up bogans from Rockingham, Gosnells, wherever, who can end up with an unwanted mistake pregnancy and be able to carry the baby, and committed same sex couples who really are dedicated to the raising of a child, but have to jump through many hoops to do so. Both are extreme ends of the spectrum but the point remains. The West Australian’s feature story also makes a few opposing argument grabs, and you know, I may be a seething atheist, but opposition to this topic always comes from religious family groups. (Keep reading after the cut).
May 25
Two bears from the burbs
Hah, in your face every major religion in Australia. Last night 60 Minutes had a great piece on two Melbourne bears who are the first gay couple in the country to have children via commercial surrogacy. Earlier this month they became fathers to twin girls. It all came at a hefty price; they paid a total of $40,000 for their sperm to be inserted in a donor egg, then implanted into an unrelated woman in India. Surrogacy like this is currently illegal in Australia.
Unfortunately Channel 9 haven’t put the video up, but you can read a transcript of the story on their site. Looking from the most cynical perspective, current affair stories like these are great at helping dispel the myth that same sex couples are too promiscuous and too unstable to care for kids in the long term. You can tell these guys really are committed to their new family. It only reiterates my feelings that if drunk hetero bogans can have a sloppy one nighter, end up with a mistake foetus and carry it to full term all the while feeling it’s a burden, same sex couples who really will care for their kids should have the right to conceive.
Some interesting comments from Gautum Allahbadia, the doctor who oversaw the surrogacy (and also pinged on my gaydar).
I believe every human being has a right to procreate and as long as I’m practising medicine within the purview of Indian law I would offer this service to anybody
Liz Hayes also asked a Muslim woman, who had previously been a surrogate, how she’d feel if her baby went to a gay couple:
I would rather do it for a couple who’s really looking for children
It’s going to take a while to change attitudes like these, in both India and Australia.
May 18
Kochie: if two people love each other does it really matter?
Did you watch Sunrise this morning?… Uh, you didn’t? Well I don’t blame you, the show does make me nauseous. This morning they took a break from discussing the potential cost savings of buying home brand toilet paper and decided to heat it up with a little gay marriage debate. Yes, you totally heard me correctly!
After stuttering their way through a run down of what’s happening with gay rights in the US they opened the floor to a Peter Furness, Australian Marriage Equality Convener who did a really good job of civilly explaining the reasoning behind the need for gay marriage rights in Australia. I was impressed because Sunrise didn’t just round up a gay rights nut job - the type who constantly screams ‘prejudice’ well after everyone’s stopped listening. Instead they round up a nut job for the opposing argument: some guy from the Australian Christian Lobby. Major lols ensured.
You can watch the whole segment here (10 minutes). Big round of applause for host David Koch who at one point totally shut down the Australian Christian Lobby panellist for implying that gay couples abuse their children. If you can’t be bothered watching the video here are some of the fantastic things we learnt from the Australian Christian Lobby today:
- If gays are given marriage rights in Australia, people will be able to demand the right to marry their cat
- Gays don’t believe in monogamy or longevity of relationships (he tells this to Peter who has been with his partner for 16 years)
- Preventing gays from getting married is the same principle as telling smokers they can’t smoke in no smoking areas… that um, totally makes sense… uh.
May 17
гомосексуалиста времени
I thought I would do a Eurovision post because I know of a lot of Eurovision parties happening around Perth tonight. The final was very entertaining: while the musical performances were less camp than last year, I was still glued to my set. I can’t even imagine the amount of money Russia pumped into production - the visual styling and stage design blew my mind.
Unfortunately there’s saddening news: Gay rights protesters who arranged a rally to coincide with the media attention that Eurovision brings were quickly arrested and whisked away by riot police. In fact, they arranged 1000 riot police to break up demonstration. In the mean time an anti-gay protest elsewhere in the city was given a permit to go ahead (although some of these protesters were arrested as well). Stuck in the middle Eurovision had to ignore the entire thing was happening.
But back to the competition: my favourite performances were Greece (super, super gay), Russia (very powerful), Armenia (awesome visuals), Sweden (super freaky opera singer) and Germany (for some reason they were represented by an American gay guy and Dita Von Teese! What!). Not to be forgetting Slovenia putting up a protest during the result announcements! Pure gold.
And my absolute favourite part… the host - what a hottie! If there are any guys in Perth who look like Ivan Urgant please contact me asap. Ahh Ivan… one day you will be mine!
May 14
Fun distractions
It’s so easy to laugh at other people’s pain when they’re all the way on the other side of the internet. That’s why I read the Ask Bossy blog. It’s the only decent thing on New Limited’s website. Take for example, I caught my boyfriend looking at she-males on the net… should we still get married? Ahhh….. for sure!
I heard strange noises coming from our study so I pushed opened the door and saw my fiance half naked getting himself off while looking at a porn site named: SheMales-YUM!
The fact some one put the effort into adding “YUM” to the title of that website brings it to a whole new level of funny. Don’t place any bets on that wedding, folks. Be sure to check out the equally entertaining I caught my boyfriend approaching men for sex… what should I do?. Do we really need to spell it out for you, hun?
A few newspapers have piped up that after Home and Away featured a lackluster lesbian kiss Neighbours is ‘copying’ them and doing their own homogametic pash. Problem is, Neighbours have already done the lesbian kiss plot line - twice already! Although, they’ve introduced a new element - this time it’s a lesbian asian person! For more info check out the website InterracialLesboKiss-YUM!
And to be my usual ranty self isn’t this a whole lot of double standard? When are we going to see hot, sexy, family friendly man-on-man pashing during crappy Aussie primetime soap operas? I want to see Harold get down daddy/son style with a barely 18 euro twink he met through manhunt by using a fake photo. Now that is actually real life.
Here is a previous lesbian kiss on Neighbours. I imagine deep within the Channel 10 studios there’s a whole vault full of unused gay kiss scenes that never went to air.
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May 5
lesbians are teaching toddlers how to dooo eeeeeiitt
Well, according to this moronic drivel from News Limited.
A BOOK which teaches children about lesbian mums getting pregnant using sperm donors is being pitched at kids as young as two.
The controversial publication, Where Did I Really Come From?, also features a drawing of two gay men holding a baby in a chapter about surrogacy.
I hate it when gay men hold babies! It’s so unsettling and offensive. And so it sexting! If your teenage daughter sexts some one it is guaranteed she will become a lesbian. Spread the moral outrage people!
News Limited’s office seems to have a dedicated phone line straight through to Family First / Focus On The Family / every religious group’s public relations department, because they publish trash like this every time a family group feels they need to irritate the public. The article calls the item in question a “sex instruction book aimed at toddlers”, which is sensationalism at its best.
“It devalues the traditional family unit and at the very least desensitises us,” Focus On The Family spokeswoman Deb Sorensen said yesterday.
Hate to break your belief system there Deb, but the traditional family unit doesn’t actually exist, and hasn’t for a very long time. The issue here is choice: if you want to show this book to your child (the recommended age on the book is two - twelve) then you do that. If you don’t, you don’t. Just don’t smother your beliefs over everyone else’s face. Your lack of tolerance suffocates us.
If you’re allowed to be producing crap like ‘Preventing Homosexuality’ then us heathens should be able to publish our ‘Where Did I Really Come From?’ book. kthx.
Well, now that I got that little tantrum out of me, there was an interesting news story today about a girl in Melbourne who has been allowed to have his breasts removed because he is more comfortable being a boy. He’s been given the androgynous pseudonym of ‘Alex’ because Alex is still underage.
Without knowing too much about the situation, it does seem the Family Court is doing the right thing for Alex’s welfare. If you’re feeling newsey have a read. The Age can’t seem work out which gender preposition to use - it’s almost like they’ve done it on purpose.
Justice Bryant said having breasts constrained Alex socially. She had to avoid being hugged by friends, could not go to the beach and had to wear binding. “So it was quite an impediment to his social development, which everyone thought was very important.”
April 20
News bites
The St Mary’s Catholic Community in South Brisbane today left their resident church building after being excommunicated by the Brisbane Archbishop. St Mary’s Parish Peter Kennedy was removed from the Roman Catholic Church for “unorthodox” views, namely supporting same sex partnerships and the right for woman to preach. To add salt to the nine inch nail wounds, the Roman Catholic Church said anyone who continues to follow Kennedy will be condemned by the Church.
Gosh, Roman Catholics are just the most delightful and loving bunch of people. The nice part of this story though is St Mary’s continues to push on, finding a new headquarters for its followers just down the road from the church house they were evicted from. You can download and listen to a really interesting segment on Triple J’s Monday Hack program. The story features some of the progressive Catholics in exile who still support St Marys.
Media loudmouth Perez Hilton has gone a bit ape at Miss California after she stumbled through a question about gay marriage during the Miss USA Pageant. As the video above shows she basically doesn’t agree with it. Afterward Perez had a big video blog rant calling the contestant a “dumb bitch”.
This is where things get a bit cloudy: he clarifies she is dumb because she didn’t answer the question politically (ie. sitting on the fence like a good Barbie Doll should do), not because of her actual views. Fair enough, and fair enough that she doesn’t believe in gay marriage. I don’t know if everyone on the extreme left and right wing are going to see it that way though. The righties will use it as a pin up for freedom of speech while the lefties will call foul for public homophobic. Funnily enough, my article in next month’s WAX Magazine looks at this very topic. Way to go, shameless self promotion!
Even if you’re not politically minded have a watch of the video - you can have some real fun pinpointing the exact moment when her Barbie Doll smile starts to crack and she thinks “oh, shiiiit”.
April 15
Absurd news bites…
… from the last few days. Armies of homos on twitter went crazy over Amazon removing the sales rankings of gay literature items on their website. Amazon’s public relations department were busy taking sedatives and could only respond with “it’s a glitch” and mumbled something about their system for protecting children from inappropriate content, which made everyone even angrier.
This all happened over the weekend, and most sales rankings have since been restored. A hacker has also come forward to claim responsibility. I’m too busy focusing on what Amazon Xanax PR have called the incident: “embarrassing and ham-fisted”. Apparently ‘ham-fisted’ is a common American term for clumsy. But dammit, now I can’t stop thinking about what ham-fisting would involve.
In Poland a conservative politician criticised his local zoo for importing a gay elephant. Apparently this is news.
“We were supposed to have a herd, but as Ninio prefers male friends over females how will he produce offspring?” said Grzes, who is from the right-wing opposition Law and Justice party.
Well Grzes, you just need to find a lesbian elephant to act as the surrogate. Disclaimer: I did steal that joke from another website.
The head of the Poznan zoo said 10-year-old Ninio may be too young to decide whether he prefers males or females as elephants only reach sexual maturity at 14.
Poor elephant, only 10 years old and already being forced into a gender role.
Within Australia that lipstick lesbian kinda indie if you squint your eyes hard enough MTV VJ Ruby Rose is defending accusations she took a ham-fisting from a straight guy. Her convincing defense on twitter was that hooking up with a guy was just as likely as…
“an alien snowboarding in Iraq with a poodle”
ACTUAL QUOTE.
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