In this month’s edition of Sports Illustrated Magazine American pro-basketball player Jason Collins has announced that he is gay. In doing so Collins became the first professional American athelete, playing a team sport, to ever declare that they are same sex attracted. Upon first hearing the news you might wonder why this is such a [...]
Last month I caught up with my ex for dinner. Aware that she’d recently moved in with her girlfriend, I enquired about the new flat. This is when she informed me that her girlfriend was in the process of moving out. Foot suitably wedged in mouth, I began to apologise but was quickly cut off. [...]
Glen (not his real name) decided to leave his marriage. He’d known he was gay when he married but hoped it was only a phase. Now 15 years and 3 children later he accepted his sexual orientation. His difficulty was how to tell his children and build new positive relationships with them. Many men experience [...]
My boyfriend keeps chatting to other guys on Grindr, he says it’s just fun chat, but I want him to delete the app. Am I being unreasonable? How often I have wondered if life were not simpler in the ‘good old days’ – whatever that means. Maybe days without apps, and mobile phones and long [...]
Last month as soon as the March edition of OUTinPerth hit the streets my partner and I headed to the airport for an overseas holiday which began with a ten day stay in New York City. One afternoon, upon exiting my favourite NYC music store Other Music, we saw a giant billboard on the back [...]
It recently dawned on me that I have never actually dated. Having only had two girlfriends in my 31 years, I most certainly have courted, but in both instances I was familiar with the lady before the relationship began. Truth be told, my only experience with lesbian dating thus far has been via a British [...]
I met my girlfriend about seven months ago and it was instant love on both sides. She has a teenage daughter and has been on her own for about five years. These months have been just amazing! We never fought, gave each other everything and started to talk about moving in together. I can’t [...]
OPINION Rumours surfaced earlier today that federal opposition leader Tony Abbott was set to reverse his view on same sex marriage on this Sunday’s edition of the Channel Nine program ’60 Minutes’. A story at ‘City News’ claimed a ‘well placed source’ had confirmed the story. The rumours however were just that, with the Executive [...]
At the start of every year Lake Superior State University in the USA releases its list of banished words. It’s a collection of words and phrases that the academics deem to be overused in the media and society in general. This year for their 38th annual list they included phrases such as “spoiler alert, Y.O.L.O, [...]
“To redefine marriage is discriminatory towards those who hold the sincerely held religious belief that is a sacred institution between a man and a woman” Kyle McCarter, State Senator of Illinois. “Marriage should be limited to [unions of a man and a woman] because they alone can ‘produce unplanned and unintended offspring.” Paul Clement, Los [...]
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