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19 Oct 2017

Melbourne are you ready for YESFEST

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This weekend, Equal Love Melbourne are throwing a HUGE YESfest with a rally and concert in support of Marriage Equality. Anthony Wallace stopped by MAD Wednesday for a chat to tell us all about the event and the fight for equality that has been going on during the postal plebicite.

Sunday the 21st of October:Equal Love’s final event as part of our YES Fest Campaign for Marriage Equality is on Sunday 22 October and is proudly supported by The Victorian Trades Hall Council and the Equality Campaign.

At 1pm we will meet at the Victorian State Library for a short rally before we march through the CBD to our main stage set up in the Alexandra Gardens where we will continue to hear from community leaders, political figures, celebrity endorsements and marriage equality advocates. These speeches will be broken up with an afternoon of live performance from some of our favourite local performers ending in a DJ set to send us off dancing to what we hope is an overwhelming YES Victory!

GUEST PERFORMERS:
SPIDERBAIT
TIM CAMPBELL
THE VAUDEVILLE SMASH
JUKE BOX RACKET
GREG GOULD
LULU MCCLATCHY
TOTTIE GOLDSMITH
DOLLY DIAMOND
JAKE FEHILY
ROCCO D’AMORE
DJ LUKE AGIUS
and more

Our Speakers list includes:
RO ALLEN
PETER MARSHALL
WIL STRACKE
TENNILLE MOISEL
FELICITY MARLOWE
and more to be annoucned.

This is the FINAL COUNTDOWN week. We will have only 7 days from this event to encourage everyone who is yet to mail in their ballots to do so and to encourage everyone who attends to reach out to their circle of family and friends to ensure every YES vote is posted back to the ABS in time to be counted.

Equal Love hosted the largest rally for gay rights in Australian history on 26 August this year with over 24,000 rallying and marching together. Sadly our record remained only a week long before Sydney smashed that figure with an estimated 30,000+. Melbourne, can we reclaim the title as the most vocal and committed to achieving Marriage Equality and beat Sydney’s turnout and get 40,000?

Let’s show the country Melbourne will fight and campaign till the last minute and come out in the biggest display of solidarity to ensure a YES Victory is achieved in what has been an incredibly divisive and unwarranted vote on our equality.