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The ABC is for everybody, and we want to celebrate the whole diversity of the rainbow. There are intolerances even within our own community, so we need to fight it from all angles. It was directed to hurt, and it was vicious. Topic: Journalism. If somebody tweets about me and anyone can see it, that's okay.

Since starting at the ABC, Byrne has become a popular and respected presenter, providing vital information during times of weather-related disasters and producing interesting and entertaining science stories from the field. Byrne was particularly stung by such intolerance after appearing on the first ABC Mardi Gras float in and receiving a nasty direct message on Instagram.

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If you're not seen, it's much easier for you to be discriminated against. Relaxed and engaging on screen, he'd never actually worked in TV before landing the News Breakfast weather presenting gig. The proposed ballot initiatives in Idaho, Nebraska, Virginia and Arizona would repeal state restrictions on gay marriage, including in some cases prohibiting the denial of a marriage license on.

And whenever it does come up again it lets me remind everybody that we're not done with this yet. He received huge support on social media and from the ABC. On air, colleague Michael Rowland slammed the "disgusting and disgraceful homophobic comments" and declared his support for Byrne and others who'd marched.

There have been more of them but that tipped me over the edge, and I thought no, I've got to do something. President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday landmark new federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples, capping both a personal and national evolution on an issue that's enjoyed.

He's open about being gay and last year shared his experience of anxiety that led to him having panic attacks on air. Before joining News Breakfast in , Byrne served 12 years in the navy, initially as a maritime wartime officer, driving ships. I love it.

But in that case, that person had direct messaged me — written to me in a way that only I could see. You are putting your awful opinion out there and it can be judged by the public who read it or, as is so often the case, there is no reaction just silence, which is, I think, sometimes the best thing.

ABC News. He's refreshingly down-to-earth and very comfortable being himself. And I thought that that is happening quietly, silently, behind closed doors, in email inboxes and on phone calls all around us all the time and it shouldn't. Starting out as a maritime wartime officer, Nate Byrne went on to qualify as a meteorologist and oceanographer.

I feel like I'm trying to keep people safe and whether I'm helping one person or a million people I think I get to do something really important every single day. With a bachelor of science in biophysics under his belt he qualified as a meteorologist and oceanographer trained at the Bureau of Meteorology and became a maritime geospatial officer, responsible for providing critical forecasts for ships at sea.

Supplied: Nate Byrne. But a year travelling around Australia hosting live shows about science for kids as part of a master's in science communication through the Australian National University and Questacon — the National Science and Technology Centre — proved to be a great training ground.

I really love it," he says. We need to have pride in who we are in order to make sure that our voices are heard. Despite the unnatural middle-of-the-night wakeups, Byrne bounces around the ABC studio with remarkable energy and enthusiasm for all things weather and science. While concealing the person's name, Byrne made the post public, calling out the "unprovoked spray of hatred".

And it did. The Friday Read He Made Gay Marriage the Law of the Land. I can turn this into some good. I've had a lot of people I've met or who have written to me who thanked me for talking about it.