Why should we have to vote for a party to get the outcome? Why don’t they just up and make good if they feel things are so unfair?

And as for a party that refuses to come to the party on marriage equality, well honestly, that just stinks. Here you homopoofs, take our generosity, but don’t expect we really like you because you’re still second-class citizens, and you’re not as worthy as heterobreeders.

The Labor party and those who defend them are just arse-kissing wankers without an ounce of integrity or back-bone.

If you as a gay man want to be treated like a second-class citizen then fine by me but don’t expect the rest of us to go along with you.

I have no problems with and have supported many organisations that have fought the good fight. I am not an object for the government to try and impress me one month out form an election. These matters have been known issues for years and they have done nothing, despite the lobbying of many organisations. It’s only now that they pick to tell us what a great job they will do when re-elected. The Bracks/Brumby government should have all this already in place, before the election.

So perhaps you should remove yourself a step and see how bad this makes the labor party look.

I am a long time supported of the labor party, but I know a bribe when I see one.

“I hope people will realize that in spite of the headline (in the Age newspaper, Saturday 23 October), John Brumby’s policy announced today builds on a ten year project in Victoria of significant reform in laws and practices, so that it is solid and embedded, and no flash in the pan.” – Jamie Gardiner, human rights and GLBTI activist (and former VEOHRC Member, Vice-President of Liberty Victoria & Secretary of the ALP’s GLBTI Affairs Policy Committee)

Dozens of queer activists have engaged the state government to progress policy beyond the many law changes already enacted by them and the reviews and research initiated and commissioned by them. We have met, organised, worked tirelessly to achieve change and now we see ground breaking change and the Bruceys of the world go toxic.

If you want to slap the government Bruce, don’t slap down the community groups and individuals who have worked hard for these proposed changes – and many of us have undertaken this work as community volunteers rather than paid for our time.

Take a cold shower mate – a long cold shower – and add your voice to the discussion of how we progress these advances after the election. After all, if you know down the Labor government, there’s no other political party stepping up with GLBT vision and shifts the ground for any successive government.