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The Catch Up

Catch UpIt’s been a busy week on the OUTinPerth website. Here’s the most popular stories from the last 7 days. If you missed them earlier, here’s your chance to catch up.

Police Ask Protestors to Remove Anti-Abbott T-Shirts

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At the Equal Love rally for marriage equality in Stirling Gardens police approached protesters wearing a T-shirt design that contained profanity and ask protestors to consider removing their shirts before marching through the city centre.

Will Radicals Set Back the Marriage Equality Movement?

This opinion piece by OUTinPerth editor Graeme Watson received a wide range of responses following it’s publication. Following controversy over a banner in Queensland’s Equal Love protests and T-shirts in W.A. Graeme asked if the marriage equality movement had gone off track?

STEPS Star Faces Online Abuse

There was shocking news from the UK this week when former lead singer of the band Lost Prophets, Ian Watkins, pleaded guilty to horrific child abuse crimes. Sadly many people online mixed up the rock star with Ian H Watkins from camp dance band STEPS and barraged his Facebook and Twitter accounts with abuse.

Fabulous Peter Pan

The WA Ballet’s production of ‘Peter Pan’ is delightful. It’s a perfect balance of traditional and contemporary, maintaining a strong linkage to traditional ballet, but with enough freshness from modern dance to make it engaging and eye catching.

Anti Gay Group Uses Gay Bands Tune in Advertisement

As Croatia heads towards a poll that calls for a ban on same sex marriage an anti-gay group has been caught out using the music of a very gay friendly band, and the band is not happy about it.

 

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On This Gay Day | Marriage Equality was achieved in Iceland in 2010

The country's PM was one of the first to get married.

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