Australian PM to host dinner for lesbians and gays

Prime Minister Julia Gillard, an opponent of same sex-marriage, will host a meal for two lesbian couples and a pair of gay men at her official residence on Tuesday after an Australian activist group won a charity auction.

The couples will use the dinner in the national capital of Canberra to lobby the prime minister to allow gay marriage.

The 12-year-old son of one of the women, Matthew Miller, will present Gillard with flowers and two letters explaining why he and his brother Dylan, aged 9, would like their biological mother Sandy Miller, 40, to marry the other woman whom they call their mother, Louise Bucke, 36. But the Sydney-based boys won't stay for dinner.

"Since they're not allowed to get married, they're basically being called not normal and we're not known as a proper family," Matthew Miller said at a function at Parliament House before the dinner.