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Posted: 3/3/05 at 1:32am
Two stories to warm the heart or chill the blood:
The gay mums who sparked a parliamentary debate by appearing on PLAY SCHOOL last year have been announced as "chiefs-of-parade" for Saturday night's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade. Vicki Harding, her partner Jackie and their eight year old daughter Brenna will travel in the open-top car preceding the first float. "Brenna is beside herself", said Harding. "Very, very excited. We haven't told her she's up the front or I don't think we'll ever hear the end of it. She's already said,'That car we're going in, is it a limousine?'" Vicki and Jackie--who also produce children's books such as THE RAINBOW CUBBYHOUSE featuring gay and lesbian characters--are no Mardi Gras virgins.
"I marched when I was pregnant with Brenna nine years ago", Harding says. "She knows about Mardi Gras, which she pronounces Mardi Grass."
The leader of the Christian Democrats, the Reverend Fred Nile, knows why the Australian version of QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY was axed after only three weeks. "It's a reflection of the will of God. The show sets out to make the heterosexual male look stupid." Reverend Nile went on to say that he was sick of seeing homosexuals on "amost every television show" and that we should learn from the US's mistakes. "The homosexual lobby is so powerful in America now, they now have the same influence as the Negroes", he said.
The gay mums who sparked a parliamentary debate by appearing on PLAY SCHOOL last year have been announced as "chiefs-of-parade" for Saturday night's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade. Vicki Harding, her partner Jackie and their eight year old daughter Brenna will travel in the open-top car preceding the first float. "Brenna is beside herself", said Harding. "Very, very excited. We haven't told her she's up the front or I don't think we'll ever hear the end of it. She's already said,'That car we're going in, is it a limousine?'" Vicki and Jackie--who also produce children's books such as THE RAINBOW CUBBYHOUSE featuring gay and lesbian characters--are no Mardi Gras virgins.
"I marched when I was pregnant with Brenna nine years ago", Harding says. "She knows about Mardi Gras, which she pronounces Mardi Grass."
The leader of the Christian Democrats, the Reverend Fred Nile, knows why the Australian version of QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY was axed after only three weeks. "It's a reflection of the will of God. The show sets out to make the heterosexual male look stupid." Reverend Nile went on to say that he was sick of seeing homosexuals on "amost every television show" and that we should learn from the US's mistakes. "The homosexual lobby is so powerful in America now, they now have the same influence as the Negroes", he said.
