Wake Up Gay Australia

Having a plebiscite to resolve the matter of gay marriage, singling us out as a group of people who can’t be treated like all the other groups of people in society, is the equivalent of handling us with a pair of tongs, you know, like you would something poisonous, or something diseased. That is the continuation of how we have traditionally been treated by straight society, which we thought we’d, actually, moved passed. (silly us) And then “they” tell us to be grateful for getting that much, the crumbs, the compromise to being granted equal rights. Wake up gay Australia, rails Rowan Dean, we are deigning to give you this great honour. Well, you know what straight Australia, and this will probably come as a shock to you, but we don’t, actually, give a “flying” what you think.

Wow, how ungrateful we must be, to opt to wait for a better idea than a plebiscite, however long that may take, than accepting people saying whatever they like about us, as they argue why we shouldn’t be given equal rights. Not only are they going to say what they like, the bigots and the homophobes (Oh yes, that's right, isn’t that one of the rules set down by the great straight majority, if you could refrain from calling homophobes homophobes during the plebiscite “free for all”, we’d appreciate it, as straight conservatives don’t like being called names) the government is paying them to do it. A cashed up bunch of bigots ready to spew bile all over us, oh yes please, where do I sign up for that.

When the Liberals realised that the marriage act didn’t, actually, specify a man and a woman in 2004, they had the legislation drawn up on the same day to change it, (I guess, it has to be said here, sadly, that Labor supported them) no need for a pesky plebiscite then, and yet to change it back has taken how long? And they are still delaying.

And another whinny conservative commentator, Rowan Dean, gets on his high horse, with his natural sense of entitlement challenged, and berates gay people for not supporting the conservative lead, straight man’s answer to legalising gay marriage. God knows (intended use) “they,” straight society majority, couldn’t just have a parliamentary vote on the subject, because “they” can’t be seen to be violating their conservative ideals, presumably, so the decision has to be farmed out to “whoever” in society (I’m not sure it matters, as the plebiscite was only a delaying tactic anyway) so it can never be claimed that “they” actually made a progressive decision. Then “they” can always point to the will of the great unwashed, if ever their god-fearing "mommies," priests, bishops, popes, whoever, come back and point the finger, I am guessing.

You can almost hear the hurt in Dean’s writing that gay Australians haven’t jumped at the crumbs that “they” have thrown us. How ungrateful gay Australian’s are that we haven’t embraced wholeheartedly this rare capitulation by the conservative right. Good God is there no end to the gays disrespect.


But of course, it is the extremist lefty gay thugs that have taken over the debate, which somehow have silenced the moderate gays. There is the usual nonsensical claptrap about where are the gays that look like me, sound like me, live like me, in who I recognise myself, Dean yaps on about ad nauseum. Where are the gays who agree with me? They must exist, he moans. You know the ones who think like me. How can they be silenced by the gays who disagree with me? People have to agree with me, where are they? In the usual right wing display of self delusion. What is that tired old right wing, conservative mantra, “If you don’t agree with what I think you are a communist.”

Well, Rowan Dean, I’ll let you in on a little secret, gay Australians don’t give a fuck about what you think.