Hello sailor! Australia plans first all-gay cruise
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"Bingay" will replace bingo when  Australia launches its first all-gay cruise ship charter next  year.
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Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, one of the biggest of its kind in the world, went green this year with a message to Australians that they must take action to protect a threatened environment.
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New Australian PM reportedly plans to use armed vessel to track Japanese whalers
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By Brooks, Josh  Pindar's passion for round the-world sailing has led it to set up its first business venture in Australasia.
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Australians seeking love on Valentine's Day speed-dated in deckchairs on Bondi Beach, while Japanese trekked through snow in search of romance and Filipinos sang syrupy ballards.
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The Royal Air Force is to strike a blow for equality in the military by becoming the first of the country's armed forces to take part in a gay pride event, it said.
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Gays across France celebrated the launch of the country&#39;s first television channel for homosexuals on Monday, anticipating a pink mixture of fashion, travel, talk, cult movies, music and soap operas.
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Australia or South Africa will get to host the Square Kilometre Array, a giant next-generation radio telescope.
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Australia will send planes and a ship to conduct surveillance of Japanese whaling ships off Antarctica, the government announced Wednesday.
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Gay porn and &quot;Wonder Woman&quot; repeats are to be offered in heavy doses on television in France as the country's first station aimed at homosexuals starts operations via cable and satellite.
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Police and soldiers began deploying to outback Australia Monday as part of a radical plan to end child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities which has been criticised as a return to the nation&#39;s paternalistic past.
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Candles outside Australian parliament spell out apology as official opening ceremony is marked by aboriginal welcome for first time
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Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, one of the biggest of its kind in the world, is going green this year with a message to Australians that they must take action to protect a threatened environment.
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The launch of France's first gay television channel, Pink TV, on Monday has been touted as a big step for television and a new era for homosexuality in this largely Roman Catholic country.
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Australia&#39;s plans to create a maritime surveillance zone reaching into Indonesian waters is an example of its insensitivity to Asia and will bolster the view of Australia
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A gay pub in the Australian city of Melbourne wins the right to ban heterosexuals.
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Nelson Minar blogged about the recent Queer Eye for the Straight Guy episode where the "straight guy" was a US soldier about to go off to Iraq.  Nelson says :  "It seems appropriate that the show was not overtly political. There's one small "gays in the military" joke, but no comments about what's going on in Iraq, just lots of sympathy for the situation the soldier is in. But you can't watch the human scale of this, this poor guy being taken away to fight a disastrous war started under false pretenses, and not get angry. At least, I couldn't. But the Queer Eye team was smart and stayed away from that. Let their viewers draw their own conclusions."  This would be a brilliant reality TV show. ...