People are adorning the front of their homes with fairy lights and it’s got nothing to do with early holiday celebrations – though the organiser does want to make your street “gayer than Christmas”.
Sydney man Steve Spencer wanted to find a positive way to contribute to the push for marriage equality and encourage Australians to vote ‘yes’ on their postal same-sex marriage survey. So last week he arranged fairy lights to form the word ‘yes’ on his front fence and encouraged others to do the same and share the photo with the hashtag #PutOutYourFairyLights, prompting people around the country to join in.
Spencer told Mamamia he thought the response had been “fabulous” so far.
“I’ve seen so many photos come through online of people putting their fairy lights out, and just walking the streets I see people putting out a big lit-up YES,” he said.
The 25-year-old said when he came up with the idea he wanted to create something simple and uniting.
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The most recent polls I've seen put the Yes vote a comfortable, approaching crushing 60%. However they also show a massive collapse of that number if objectors of conscience are stripped of protection.
There seems to be gaining traction around the issue of wanting the legislation available before effectively signing a blank cheque.
This makes my heart happy.
In my ideal world, the entire population bins their form as a big 'f' you Malcolm with your non-binding plebiscite where a 'no' majority will mean no but a 'yes' majority may still mean no.