Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1093 Wednesday 5 October 2011
GUEST MC
PANDORA BOXX
& MARZI PAN
Marriage
campaign
goes viral
An online forum on same-sex marriage has...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1093 Wednesday 5 October 2011
GUEST MC
PANDORA BOXX
& MARZI PAN
Marriage
campaign
goes viral
An online forum on same-sex marriage has
reachednearly650,000Twitterusers,whileastarstudded video released by Australian Marriage
Equality (AME) to promote the issue on Friday
hasalreadybeenseenbycloseto40,000people.
More than 340 users participated in the
September 29 Twitter forum, organised by
Toro Productions and the Star Observer,
including former NSW premier Kristina
Keneally, New Mardi Gras, dancer Ripley
Waters, DJs Seymour Butz and Dan Murphy,
and puppet drag queen Queen Miss Left Titter.
Their tweets broadcast to more than 20,000
people during the forum.
In the hours following the forum, retweets
appeared in the Twitter feeds of more than
645,000users.
In her contributions, Keneally urged people
to find common ground with supportive people
of faith and warned that civil unions would
“undermin
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