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The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands is a micronation near Australia.  This is their flag:

The Gay Kingdom (as it is colloquially known) was founded in 2004 in protest against Australia’s legal stance against same-sex marriage.

Here are some of their stamps:

They are currently ruled by Emperor Dale I, and their currency is the Pink Dollar.

they have a declaration of independence that talks a bit about gay rights and then just flat out copies the “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” part from the american declaration of independence. and here’s the best part: the founding group actually elected their emperor. he was originally going to be called the “administrator” of a republic. their website, however, says that “upon legal advice, his title was changed to that of Sovereign on the grounds that under Australian law a defacto prince trying to claim his crown cannot be charged with treason”. so they made it a kingdom and he now claims to be a descendent of edward ii.

everything about this is glorious and everyone should know about it.

As previously mentioned, the idea originated at Pride (Brisbane 2003) in reaction to punitive anti-marriage legislation

“On the 14th day of June 2004, at this highest point in the Coral Sea, Emperor Dale Parker Anderson raised the gay rainbow flag and claimed the islands of the Coral Sea in his name as homeland for the gay and lesbian peoples of the world. God Save our King!”

The campsite/capital Heaven was named after the London nightclub

War was declared on Australia in September 2004

The aforementioned stamps were issued in July 2006 “with the aim of creating a high and distinctive reputation amongst the philatelic fraternity”

They were never recognized legally/internationally as a micronation (and in fact Anderson refused to attend a conference in 2010 because they weren’t actually trying to be a sovereign nation)

In Feb 2017, Abetz was objecting to the flag of a “hostile nation” being flown

[ID: Two images showing a digital comic of the character Ladybug from Miraculous. In the first comic, it shows Ladybug looking at her yoyo, waiting for a response from Chat Noir as he types. Her previous messages say, “hey its been a bit r u still coming for patrol? just wanna make sure u remember we changed the time.” Chat Noir responds back, “Sorry, got caught up with talking to my family. Coming now” and he adds a smiley face at the end.

Ladybug thinks to herself, “Chat Noir has a family… I wonder what they’re like?” It cuts to show a picture that’s labeled “Chat Noir’s Family according to Ladybug’s mental image.” It shows civilian Chat Noir sitting in a chair. He still has his cat ears even with no mask. A black cat with a bowtie is sitting on the backrest of the chair and is labeled “M. Noir.” There’s another black cat with a ribbon tied around the neck sitting on the chair’s armrest labeled, “Mme. Noir.” In a box on Chat Noir’s lap, there are two kittens inside labelled, “litter of little siblings.” Ladybug is trying not to laugh at her own imagination. 

In the second comic, it starts by saying, “After identity reveal.” Ladybug looks furious and says, “I cannot believe M. Noir turned out to be Gabriel Agreste,” with Gabriel Agreste underlined. There’s a picture of a cat with a bowtie labelled, “cute fluffy cat dad” that’s there in direct comparison to a picture of Gabriel labelled, “DISGUSTING.” Ladybug keeps on talking, “mon chaton deserves only the best parents this world has to offer!” Then, a lightbulb pops over Ladybug’s indicating she has an idea. She smirks to herself as she thinks, “I have the best parents.” The word I is underlined. The next panel shows her with a bigger smirk as she thinks, “Plan to Get Chat Noir a New Family: Step 1. Convince Adrien on the merits of eloping.” There’s a cartoony drawing of Marinette on one knee proposing to Adrien. End ID]  

the drawn version of a post i made a couple days ago. in summary of that post i want marinette to think about what chat noir’s civilian life is like. and i want her to come up with the most bizarre conclusion possible because she really cant imagine chat noirs life at all. and also because she cant contemplate him being anything but a catboy.

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