She has been one of the most loved reps of Her Maj :
Dame Marie Bashir the retiring Governor of NSW. Last night it was time to honour the Governor herself at Parliament House at a dinner organised by the Gay & Lesbian community- the LGBTI Community Tribute Dinner for ( we love her full title)
Her Excellency Dame Marie Bashir AO CVO.
Pictured right is
Adrian Bartels and a pal with Dame Marie. Bartels was just pipped at the post at the last state election by current MP
Alex Greenwich. also openly gay.
Aren't we lucky in the Eastern Suburbs ?. A choice between the very
David Beckham style Bartels or our favourite descendent of Russian Nobility Alex !
## also pleasing to see Sydney Councillor
Christine Foster ( PM
Tony Abbott's sister ) at the
St Vincent de Paul sleep out in Redern helping to raise awareness for homelessness.
Dame Marie was described by the LGBTI as a
"powerful advocate for the powerless" and this has been evident on so many occasions as evidenced by our exclusive pic taken at the mansion
Boomerang at a fundraiser for the
Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross. Marie was only too happy to chat to former
Guantanamo Bay inmate
David Hicks (
left).
Dramas in the world of Opera as a twitter outrage grows over Georgian soprano
Tamar Iveri, scheduled to sing Desdemona in
Otello for
Opera Australia in July and
Tosca later this year in Melbourne
Iveri has been condemned for an open letter she wrote to the Georgian President
Mikheil Saakashvili in May last year. In the lengthy diatribe, posted on her Facebook page, she describes
LGBT people as
“deviants” and suggests that homosexuality is part of the
“faecal mass” being foisted on Georgia by the West.
Iveri was commenting after LGBT activists marched to mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) in the city of Tbilisi. The marchers were attacked by thousands of fundamentalist Christians (?) with some barely escaping with their lives. The loopy soprano said she was
“proud of the fact how Georgian society spat at the parade” and that
“
often, in certain cases, it is necessary to break jaws in order to be appreciated as a nation”. Charming!
She really is coming to the wrong town
. Somehow I think Ms Iveri's visit may be cut short.
Below is a video from the march-what a contrast to the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras !
Never fear : there is a line-up of controversial names appearing with former PM Malcolm Fraser and ex-pollie Mark Latham, writers Salman Rushdie and John Pilger and some Russian controversy with the infamous Pussy Riot. Tickets are available here.
