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Queer comedians wed to highlight marriage inequality

A gay man and a lesbian walk into a bar – and marry one another, since they can’t marry their actual partners.

12 Apr 2016

Richard Watts

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Comedians Zoë Coombs Marr and Rhys Nicholson will get married at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Festival Club this Friday, with their nuptials staged to highlight marriage inequality – neither is currently able to marry their own same sex partners under Australian law.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts