2011 Winners

Thanks to everyone who participated in the GLORIA's in 2011.

The winners in each category are:

Sport: Jason Akermanis for his comments saying that gay AFL players should not come out.

Media: Channel 7 news reporter Adam Walters for his reporting on former Transport Minister David Campbell.

Politics: Victorian Liberal MP Geoff Shaw for his email to a 20 year old gay constituent who wrote to him to object to (then) proposed changes to the anti discrimination act.

Mr Shaw's email likened being gay to being a child molester, a drunk, a speeding driver, a murderer, drug abuser or thief.

Religion: Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby Jim Wallace for his ANZAC day tweet
"Just hope that as we remember Servicemen and women today we remember the Australia they fought for - wasn't gay marriage and Islamic"

Mr Wallace has apologised for this tweet but he also won for saying that expelling a gay child from a school for being gay was a loving response.

Online: The anonymous ex ADF member who set up the gay hate facebook group that named members of the ADF as gay resulting in members of the Australian Army receiving email threats.

International: Ugandan MP David Bahati for his (now withdrawn) Anti Homosexuality Bill - known as the "kill the gays bill" that would introduce the death penalty for people who have previous convictions (for being gay), or if HIV positive or if they engage in sexual acts with people of the same sex.

Law: The Australian Immigration Dept for the deportation of a man from Lebanon who had experienced serious physical abuse from his family as a result of being gay.

Silliest comment from someone within the GLBTI community: Gary Burns for his comments defending Channel 7's actions in relation to former Transport Minister David Campbell.

The Golden GLORIA for the comment of the year went to Jim Wallace from the ACL.