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They sent copies of the Kingdom’s Declaration of Independence to Prime Minister John Howard and then-Governor-General Michael Jeffery.
By September 2004, the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom declared war on Australia over its stance on marriage equality.
‘The flag of a hostile nation’
Over ten years later, Liberal Senator Eric Abetz famously brought up the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom in a tongue-in-cheek exchange during a Senate Estimates hearing, during a homophobic crusade against a government department flying the rainbow flag.
“This particular flag, you will realise, is the flag of the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands, that declared war on Australia,” Senator Abetz said at the time.
“It is the flag of a hostile nation if we are to believe them.”
Later that year, Australia held its excruciating and completely unnecessary postal survey on same-sex marriage.
Politicians finally inked marriage equality into law back on the mainland.
The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom formally dissolved on November 17, 2017.
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That same year, Australia held a postal survey regarding the question of marriage equality.
In 2004, over 300 kilometres off the coast of Queensland, a new, all-gay nation was created: the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands.
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The rising momentum for marriage equality was met with hysteria across the West.
They formed the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands.
The group boarded a seaplane they’d christened The Gayflower.
Emperor Dale and his crew flew to Cato Island, where the capital city 'Heaven' was formed and a traditional 6-stripe rainbow gay Pride flag (the official flag of The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands) was raised.
They created an official Declaration of Independence and installed a commemorative plaque which read:
‘On the 14th day of June 2004, at this, the highest point in the Coral Sea, Emperor Dale Parker Anderson raised the gay rainbow flag and claimed the Islands of the Coral Sea in his name as the homeland of the Gay and Lesbian people.
While nothing violent occurred after their declaration, a hard-right Liberal Senator did express ironic concern about the display of a rainbow flag in the lobby of the Department of Finance in 2017:
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This also means that the Kingdom sees itself as an independent country.