“If any young person is hurt by all these, please know that I stand with you. I’m on your side. So is the Victorian Government.”

Daniel Andrews is having none of this homophobic bullsh*t.

The Victorian Premier says he is “getting really sick” of state-sanctioned actions which tell same-sex attracted young people that they are abnormal.

“We won’t put up with this kind of cruel rubbish in our state,” he said of the New South Wales Liberal Government’s decision to ban the screening of the film Gayby Baby during school hours.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews with his family and the creators of Gayby.

In a moving statement posted to his Facebook page he described the film as an “award-winning Australian documentary about same-sex parents who are raising beautiful families”.

Not, as The Daily Telegraph claimed, “homophobic propaganda.”

He said that he and his wife Cath had taken their children to a recent screening of the film at Melbourne International Film Festival and their whole family loved it.

He said that his NSW counterparts were wrong to assume it was a “confusing and distressing subject for high school students,” and had this powerful message for young people in his own state about the film:

Well said, Daniel.

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