"Last week Magda Szubanski, Kath & Kim star and easily regarded as one of Australia’s comedic icons, decided to come out on Valentine’s Day as “gay, gay, gay, gay, gay” and throw her support behind same-sex marriage as two Bills entered parliament aiming to change the 2004 amendment of the Marriage Act to remove the clause that defines marriage between a man and a woman only to between two consenting adults.
Her announcement ended years of speculation and was greeted with massive support. And rightly so, it was a moving gesture and Magda handled it spectacularly. So much so that later in the week Tory Shepherd at The Punch was moved to suggest that unless there was a “genuine reason not to high-profile members of the GLBT community really do have a moral obligation to come out, to give younger gay people role models.”"