same-sex marriage
Fran Kelly says marriage equality debate was toughest ever interview
Longtime ABC Radio National host Fran Kelly has described interviews with opponents of same-sex marriage as some of her most challenging, as she prepares to leave her Breakfast hosting job of 17 years. Kelly announced last week she’ll finish up at the end of the year hosting ABC Radio National Breakfast, a job she’s had …
Marriage for All: resounding 64% YES vote in Switzerland
Swiss voters yesterday supported Marriage for All — Mariage Pour Tous — with a resounding 64% YES vote. In addition to winning the support of the majority of the electorate, the YES vote also triumphed in all Swiss cantons. The 64% YES vote exceeded the 55% predicted by opinion polls in advance of the referendum. …
Gay priest Lars Gårdfeldt refuses to marry straight couples
Openly gay Swedish priest, Lars Gårdfeldt, declared Wednesday he would stop marrying heterosexual couples. The gay priest from a parish in Gothenburg made the declaration ahead of a church election on Sunday. Although the Church of Sweden has allowed same-sex marriages since 2009, it allows priests with conscientious objections to refuse to perform a marriage. …
Thousands march in Switzerland for marriage equality ‘yes’ vote
Thousands of people have marched in Switzerland to support same-sex marriage as the country’s national referendum on the issue approaches. At least twenty-thousand people gathered for the annual Zurich Pride parade at the weekend. With Switzerland’s national same-sex marriage vote just three weeks away, this year’s parade was a large-scale marriage equality rally with the …
Aussie model Jordan Barrett married his boyfriend in Ibiza
Australian model Jordan Barrett has married boyfriend Fernando Casablancas in an intimate wedding in Ibiza. The 24-year-old Aussie married fellow model and artist Fernando on the Spanish island on August 11 in a low-key 15-person ceremony. Fernando, who’s 23, is the younger brother of The Strokes rocker Julian Casablancas. According to the Daily Mail, even …
Amy Schulkins Memorial Sunday night: Light a candle for Amy
Family and Friends will gather for an Amy Schulkins memorial on Sunday afternoon. Friend Phoenix Violet also invited anyone unable to attend to light a candle for Amy at 7 pm Sunday. Amy Schulkins disappeared on 30 December. Earlier, she and her wife visited her parents for dinner. Last Friday, police found her submerged car …
Former Home and Away star Kassandra Clementi enGAYged
Kassandra Clementi yesterday announced she was enGAYged to American actor Jacqueline Toboni. Kassandra played Maddy Osborne on Home And Away from 2013 to 2016. From 2014 to 2015, she dated Bondi Vet star Dr Chris Brown. Born in Adelaide, Kassandra Clementi began her acting career in 2009. She worked on various Australian and US television …
Brisbane couple puts 140-year-old Broadway Chapel up for sale
After hosting some 2400 weddings, the Brisbane couple who own the 140-year-old Broadway Chapel in Woolloongabba have put it up for sale. James Paulsen and Nick Dubinin (above) have owned the property for almost two decades. In 2004, the pair finished a beautiful restoration of the church and then reopened it as a non-denominational wedding …
Tennis legend Billie Jean King reveals her and her wife’s secret wedding
US tennis legend Billie Jean King has revealed for the first time in a new memoir she and partner Ilana Kloss tied the knot in a secret, intimate wedding in 2018. The 39-time Grand Slam and 20-time Wimbledon champion (above right) recounted the small, private ceremony in her new autobiography All In, according to Today. …
Aussie model Aweng Chuol abused online after marrying wife
South Sudanese-Australian supermodel Aweng Chuol has revealed the devastating toll of vicious homophobic abuse she received after marrying her wife. Aweng was born in a refugee camp in Kenya after her family fled a civil war. She moved to Australia at age seven. When Aweng was a teenager, a model scout discovered her while she …