About Tony Robertson
Some Biographical Information:
I was born in Geelong, Victoria on February 23 1953.
� Greatest Hits Best Song: Keep it Gay (Perry Como)
� The AFL Footy results for the year
� Geelong West City Band gets new leader
� Sir James Darling appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
� Ballarat Begonia Festival began
� 28 January: Jim Scullion dies. First Irish Catholic Labour PM of Australia
� 10 April, Dag Hammarskj�ld takes the oath of office as Secretary-General of the UN
� 2 June: Coronation of Betty Windsor
This is a birthday I share with other celebrities including Handel, Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya Norman Lindsay and of course, Maria Gloria von Sch�nberg-Glauchau wife of prince Thurn un Taxis, among others!! It’s also the day on which a few famous luminaries went to meet their maker including St Polycarp (thank God my parents didn’t chose to name me after the saint on whose day I was born!!) Other famous spirits who watch over me from on high on this day include John Keats, Nellie Melba, Augusto Sandino and Edward Elgar, . What a company!! More famous people who have shared my birthday!It’s always been a busy day in history!
In the past 50 years I have lived in:
� North Geelong
� West Geelong
� Plumpton (NSW)
� Wynnum North (Qld)
� Clayton North
� Fitzroy
� North Melbourne
� Collingwood
� Seddon
� Kiunga (PNG)
� West End
� Annerley
� Fairfield
St John’s Primary School, North Geelong
St Patrick’s Primary School, West Geelong
St Joseph’s College Newtown
Catholic Theological Union Hunters Hill
Australian Catholic University McAuley Campus
Southbank TAFE
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Values and Passions
I’m a fringe dweller in every sense. My sexual orietation as a gay man, politics, lifestyle choices and my social activism means that I have made choices and decisions that leave me somewhere on the edge of the mainstream.
This has had an impact on my family and faith community experiences.
The choice to celebrate sexuality empowers us to “make space” for our sisters and brothers who live in a culture that prefers to treat us as an issue rather than welcome us as integral companions on life’s journey.
March 4, 2008 at 10:23 pm
June 2, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Hello Tony
I often read your posts on Cathviews and I’m always disappointed at the amount of homophobia that is rampant from most of the other posters. When I first came across the Catholic db it was the the one organised by Cathnews and, for the most part it was the most homophobic experience I have ever encountered. Every time I posted about my life and and relationship and how it was just as important and relevant as any one else’s life and relationship, I was vilified and had the most hateful bile spat at me. A lot of the time they would temper their assaults by stating that “it is the sin and not the sinner” nonsense but it all rang hollow.
I am a gay man in my mid fifties and I am very comfortable with my sexuality and I adore my partner of thirty years. The catholic church is a hard nut to crack and it is doubtful that its attitude will ever chance.
Regards
DavidB