Please Enjoy Anna Wintour Dragging The Australian Prime Minister Over LGBT Rights
Slamming Margaret Court? For her terrible views on same sex marriage? Groundbreaking.
Anna Wintour, the (unofficial) inspiration behind The Devil Wears Prada, is visiting Australia for the first time.
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The editor of Vogue, who has been dictating our wardrobes for the past 31 years, is in town right now for the Australian Open as she is a mad tennis fan. The good news is that she thinks our Aussie style is "quite relaxed" and "fun".
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But, like florals for spring, she is absolutely not impressed with our politicians or sporting legends.
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Speaking at a lunch for about 400 people on Thursday, Wintour criticised Prime Minister Scott Morrison for his views on LGBTQ rights calling them "backward in all senses".
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"I have been alarmed by your prime minister's record on LGBTQ rights, which seems backward in all senses," she said. "That no-one can be expelled from school for their orientation, should not require clarification. A government should protect its people, not make it unclear whether they will be accepted."
Wintour also weighed in on the controversy surrounding Margaret Court following the Australian tennis great's vocal opposition to same-sex marriage. She then pledged her support to a campaign that is calling for Margaret Court Arena to be renamed.
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"I find that it is inconsistent with the sport for Margaret Court's name to be on a stadium that does so much to bring all people together across their differences," she said. "This much I think is clear to anyone who understands the spirit and the joy of the game. Intolerance has no place in tennis."
It was a bold move for the fashion veteran who is renowned for choosing to ignore and put things "out of Vogue" instead of publicly dragging them. And for that I stan.
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