Australia’s gay marriage ban has inspired the formation of a Gay Kingdom on Cato Island off of Queensland in the Coral Sea. A tongue-in-cheek declaration proclaims Gloria Gaynor’s “I Am What I Am” the national anthem. Dale Anderson, self-appointed “Emperor” told the Sydney Star Observer, “We’re very serious about it. The government’s obviously not going to recognise it but if we can force them to do something about it, then they can’t ignore it.”
Anderson doesn’t expect many visitors, however: “It’s a bit hard to get there because there’s no harbour and you have to park the boat off the reef and wait for a wave.”