It’s huge. 85 Federal laws that discriminated against same-sex couples and their families have been reformed. These historic 85 reforms reward decades of protesting. To celebrate, 85 artists are designing 85 T-Shirts inspired by each reform. 85 influential Australians are wearing these T-shirts with pride, to spread the knowledge across the country. Courtney Act & Shane Jenek are two of the spokes people for the campaign along side other influential Australians including Ruby Rose, The Veronicas, Richard Reid, Kylie Gillies.

Natalie Bassingthwaighte has dedicated her new single, “Love Like This”, to celebrate the Wear it with Pride campaign. This song and its video are key parts of the campaign, and the video features some of the influential Australian’s who have designed T-Shirts. Make sure you support this fabulous song and clip by buying it on iTunes. Look out for cameos by Shane & Courtney too!

Love Like This video clip:

Courtney is a key spokesperson for the Wear it with Pride campaign, stating that the reforms are “really important for everybody and they’re a really big step forward.” You can read an interview with her below:

Why did you decide to take part in the campaign?

This campaign represents real change and a step forward in human rights for our country.  Obviously we are all equal, that is a fundamental truth, and the law should have no standing or impact on our ability to feel so.

Having the law catch up and recognise our equality is important because along the way a lot of us, on both sides of the fence, have forgotten this. When people see each other as equal rather than greater or less than the human race comes together rather than apart.

In your opinion, why is this new campaign so important?

It’s extremely important that people know we are moving in the right direction because it is this awareness that inspires society and helps remind people that we are all equal. Bringing awareness that, under law, gay and straight people are now recognised as equal (except for that one itsy bitsy marriage thing) means legal segregation has ended and now hopefully social segregation can too. Perhaps when we stop focusing on our differences we will realise that they are far outweighed by our similarities.

There is lots more information, as well as the rest of the interview, online at http://www.wearitwithpride.com.au/law-reforms/workplace/courtney-act-shane-jenek/

Here is my Christmas Card for 2009. It is my 6th Annual card and I think… my favourite. Thank you to the gorgeous Daniel G Online for posing, Sam Dunn for the digital art, John McRae for the photography and Megan Fox for the tits!

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I am very excited for the 2009 Mardi Gras Festival. The Festival Guide gets launched today and all of the exciting acts will be revealed. I know Joan Rivers, Alan Cummngs & Roberta Flack are all included in the line-up which sounds fabby!

Trevor Ashley and I are teaming forces as well to bring to the stage a very camp musical comedy titled Gentlemen Prefer Blokes. Trevor Ashley, Phil Scott, Tony Taylor and myself have been working on the show for months now, and we are just getting ready to film some camp video sketches to stitch the madness together.

We open in Parramatta at the Riverside Theaters on February the 19th (the day after my birthday) and then in Sydney at the Civic Hotel Underground on the 20th of February all the way through to the 6th of March. The Civic has undergone some very glamorous refreshments featuring state of the art lighting and sound, white leather, mirrors and perspex for days!

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New club on the block, Oxford Art Factory, features a big glass cube in the middle of the venue linking the main dance floor to the bar. So when the lovely peeps at “Get Together” asked me to come up with an idea for the booth I excitedly set my mind to work. I recalled a video of Farrah Fawcett I had seen one night late on TV when I was about 14. She was painting… with her body… naked. I recall her covered in gold paint naked using her breasts as a paint brush. This became my inspiration for my performance art piece in the glass cube.

 I started off the evening entering the cube, which had been set up as a dressing room, with all of my friends. We sat down cracked open a bottle (or two) of bubbly and proceeded to have our own little get together. I put on my hair and makeup through out the next hour and a bit, and finished up in a white dressing gown. As the get together wound down I said goodbye to my guest and sent them on their way. Then there was a knock at the door! It was my art subject, Simon, wearing a white robe, just in time to be my still life model. He entered the booth, hoped up on the podium, next to the paint brushes, paint and bowl of fruit and dropped his robe. I began to paint, instead of the canvas, his body. First with a brush and then, when the brush was not giving the coverage I required… with my fingers. One thing led to another and pretty soon Simon and I (as close to naked as one can be ie flesh coloured underwear) were smearing lashings of paint all over eachother and the booth. The spirit of Pro Hart entered the cube and i could hear the voice of his cleaner, from those great Australian commercials from the 90’s, “Oh Mr Hart what a mess!!”. There was paint splattered all over the walls, the floor and us.  But  soon we grew weary of stepping on tubes of paint and rubbing our bodies up against the glass and so Simon grabbed the bunch of grapes from the, already upturned and smashed, bowl of fruit. He proceeded to branch out into viticulture and squash the grapes… all over me. We ate from the forbidden fruit and threw oranges and bananas around the room. It was the most fun one can have standing up.

Last night I did a show at a club in King Cross called The Lincoln. It was a great night and their first week of shows with the hot female dance troup – The Dirty Pretty Jewels. The place was heaving post fashion-week and the show went off. The girls perform there regularly on Friday nights and do a unique blend of burlesque. Other performers coming up include Melissa, Jade McRae and I will be back (by popular demand I am told) on Friday 23rd June… Come on down and check it out!