And so our review of the last 12 months comes to a conclusion with events that happened just in the last few weeks.
On World AIDS Day the WA AIDS Council called for Prep treatment to be made available in Australia. The city of Perth marked World AIDS Day by including a message on Council House.
Liberal Trent Zimmerman became the first openly gay member of the federal House of Representatives when he won a by-election replacing Joe Hockey.
Connections Nightclub celebrated their historic 40th birthday with a mega-party.
Police upgraded the investigation into missing WA man Rigby Fielding to a suspected homicide investigation.
Australian Liberty Alliance senate candidate Bernard Gaynor won a landmark case against the defense force. A judge overturns Gaynor’s dismissal from the army reserves. The defense force have announced they will appeal the decision.
Western Australian HIV advocate Cipriano Martinez was elected President of the National Association of People Living with HIV Australia.
Former owner of The Court Hotel, Rod Kelly, passed away.
A pastor in the UK claimed children’s TV show ‘Rainbow‘ made people gay.
Australian Marriage Equality laid out their plan for achieving marriage equality in 2016. Rodney Croome called for a respectful debate on marriage equality, the head of the Australian Christian Lobby said the proposal was laughable.
Liberal Senator Dean Smith raised questions about the decision to go to a plebiscite.
Labor’s Shayne Neumann is the latest MP to declare his support for marriage equality.
A bizarre Christmas advertisement from the UK left us all scratching our heads.
Tasmania announced it would remove historical convictions for same sex activities and offer an apology to those convicted.
An announcement from local school Perth College that girls could bring a same sex friend to the school ball was welcomed.
A Lync hair products advertisement that featured a same sex kiss was revealed to be one of the most complained about advertisements of 2015.
A review of the ABC program ‘Q&A’ found that overall the show had good editorial judgement, but the balance was off-kilter during a gay themed episode earlier in the year. Â Government MP Eric Abetz labeled it a “lettuce leaf” review and called on the new Managing Director of the ABC to “end the leftie love-in”.
