From The Editor
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I sat at my desk thinking ‘Oh my god… how do you run a newspaper?’. Well I’m not exactly sure I know the answer to that one yet, but OUTinPerth is somehow still here, three years later.
Working with, and for, the GLBTIQ community as Editor of OUTinPerth has been a great experience and learning curve. It’s great to see some of the positive changes in the community in that time – movement towards equality, thanks to the Rudd government’s 85 reforms; the gay baby boom; some great research initiated by GRAI and WACHPR; renovations in our major venues and many people finding it easier to come out and be themselves. Community groups have had their ups and downs but most are chugging along, trying out new events and new strategies and in the process building a great community. (more…)
Letter From The Editor
Somehow, the year has whipped around and here, smacking us in the face again like a drunken straggler from a hen’s night beating her way to the dance floor podium, is the festival of all things acronymious, Pride.
And while to many Pride is a graceful (though a somewhat sequin besmattered) swan gliding smoothly through our fair Spring, for those in GLBTIQQOPP+ organisations, community groups and businesses all the paddling keeping that same swan afloat can get a little frantic. One wonders what on earth one is doing as the feet of a waterfowl? (more…)
Life OUT Loud :: On Becoming a Girl and Finding the Glass Ceiling
So there I was at Sunset Coasters, sent by She for Whom We Jump to supervise Young Oliver (erstwhile Ad Man of OUTinPerth) and his camera, with a perfectly delightful group of professional gentlemen assembled in the sultry summeresque evening at the Lucky Shag. Marvellous folks really – if you’re interested check out Sunsetcoasters blogspot for details of their Christmas function. Civilised as it was, I was the token girl there. I was feeling a bit out of place, out of sorts and then, while musing on a theme that has had me fascinated for the last few weeks, I hit what was more of an Unlucky Snag. (more…)
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