The Gay & Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands

[cdybedahl]

Does any of the gay rights-type people here know how (or if) real this is? If there is any truth to it, it'd be kind of fascinating that a bunch of gay activists pretty much succeeded in doing something that a much larger bunch of rightwing libertarian types spent years and years failing at.

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[yonmei.livejournal.com]

It's not exactly a spoof, but it's not exactly for real either - AFAIK it's two guys (and their friends?) making a political statement.

Coral Sea Islands

[(Anonymous)]

Well, speaking as both a "gay rights-type" person and as a self-taught specialist in the realm of international law focusing on sovereignty issues, I'd point out that the Coral Sea Islands are but one among many phantom-like entities dotting the globe, so-called "fifth nations" or "nation-less states" falling into the same category as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (Italy), the Principality of Seborga (Italy), the Sultanate of Ocussi-Ambeno (East Timor) and Akwesasne Mohawk Nation (US/Canada).

Do the Coral Sea Islands exist? Yes, unassailably they do. Australia claims to administer them nominally as a Federal Territory, but given that only one of the four islands is inhabited, and that one only temporarily by four Australian federal meteorological service employees, one needs to how does Australia effectively control them?

The answer is "probably not."

So, in real terms and for all the good it does anybody to administer these "sand dunes in the sea" I'd say the Royal Government of the Gay & Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands has about as meritorious a claim as anybody else.

I love and endorse the idea of a separate gay and lesbian homeland, but it ought to have both a meaningful quantity of territory as well as historical credibility. My vote is for seizing the "Sotadic Zone" proposed by Sir Richard Burton in the 19th century. It's really, really, really big, and has cart-loads of natural resources; in his 'Terminal Essay' Sir Richard described its territory thus:

"... bounded westwards by the northern shores of the Mediterranean (N. Lat. 43°) and by the southern (N. Lat. 30°). Thus the depth would be 780 to 800 miles including meridional France, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Greece, with the coast-regions of Africa from Marocco to Egypt. Running eastward the Sotadic Zone narrows, embracing Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and Chaldaea, Afghanistan, Sind, the Punjab and Kashmir.
In Indo-China the belt begins to broaden, enfolding China, Japan and Turkistan. It then embraces the South Sea Islands and the New World where, at the time of its discovery, Sotadic love was, with some exceptions, an established racial institution."

Crikies, that's about half the world. But there's a bit of a problem, and that is the question of what to do with the breeders who already make their abodes in the Sotadic Zone's territory?

Clearly, any reasonable, humane solution has to evenly benefit both gay and lesbian settlers as well as the heterosexual 'indigenes.' I'm thinking something along the lines of a Territorial Depopulation Fund out of which would be paid a monetary award to heterosexuals who either (a) limited the size of their families; (b) agreed to leave the territory and settle elsewhere or (c) agreed to voluntary sterilization.

Time would provide its own remedies in such an instance.

It would (or it will, perhaps) be interesting to see what happens in any case!

Cheers,

Bill Courson