IDAHO day has grown in prominence over the last few years, if you haven’t come across it before it’s the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, and it’s on May 17th. Now I didn’t automatically assume that IDAHO day was from Idaho, it is after all an acronym, but I did presume that this new [...]
Am I a feminist? Annie Lennox has got me thinking, Last week Lennox took to the stage at London’s Royal Festival Hall to a rapturous round of applause and cheers, but the iconic vocalist was not there to sing she was on stage to talk about feminism and equality for women. Activist Annie has one [...]
Benn Dorrington announced in the office the other day there’s a new acronym we all need to learn. SSAW, it stands for same sex attracted women, women who don’t indentify as gay or lesbian but do acknowledge their attraction to other women. Is it another box and another label? Maybe it is. I’m not sure [...]
Where are we up to in the fight for gay rights? Was equality achieved when the laws were changed at a federal level in 2008? Will the finishing line be same-sex marriage? Far from it, the harsh reality is that there is still a huge amount of injustice, bullying and abuse of gay, lesbian. bisexual [...]
‘It’s OK, I’m cool with it,’ my slightly shocked friend responded. I’d just told him I was gay. I’d come out six months earlier in late 1999, but this friend had been away overseas and since this was in the days before Facebook, he was unaware of my significant status update. Relieved that my friend [...]
Thirteen years ago today Matthew Shepard died. He’d met two men at a bar who agreed to give him a ride home. Instead of taking him home they drove to a remote rural spot and robbed him., He was pistol whipped and tortured, he suffered a severe brain stem injury and his body lost the [...]
I remember reading a newspaper article back in 1987 that was about the 20th anniversary of The Beatles releasing Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The article was cleverly titled ‘It was Twenty Years Ago Today’, taking the opening line of the title song. At the time as a 13 year-old I wondered how old [...]
How important is that the LGBTI community, is a community? With the removal of many discriminating laws, growing acceptance in the workplace and increasingly more of our community living in the suburbs than the inner city, do we still need to band together like we did in decades past? You’ll notice that we’ve reduced the [...]
The reports to federal parliament last month from politicians canvassing their electorate’s views on same sex marriage were disappointing. Most reported their electorates were not supportive of gay marriage, despite many polls over a number of years showing growing community support. I cannot help but wonder if some of our elected representatives just sought out [...]
There’s a line outside of people waiting to get in, crowd controllers stand over and even though it’s snowing and the temperature is below zero the waiting queue is not deterred. They just pull up their hoodies, tighten their coasts and wait for the slow shuffle forward so they can be on the other side [...]
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