Here’s five stories we’ve found fascinating from around the web, take a look.

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Crackdown looms as Indonesia exorcises gay ‘demons’ 

The Australian

While gay conversion therapy is being outlawed in Western countries, the belief that gay people can be cured via counselling or religious intervention is a common practice in countries like Indonesia. As the government moves to increases legal penalties for being same-sex attracted there has been a corresponding growth in conversion therapy practices. Read the article

The Village Voice is dead and will leave a while in the LGBTIQ community

LBTIQ Nation

New York City’s The Village Voice one of the most influential and long running street press publications in the world has closed it’s doors. Two years ago the magazine moved to being an online only publication, now it’s all over. Sarah Toce looks at the ground breaking work it did and the effect it’s absence is likely to have.  Read the article

Australian wedding magazine under fire for gay silence

SBS

An Australian wedding magazine is under fire for refusing to say if it has a policy against same-sex weddings. The article from SBS has prompted aspiring politicians from the Australian Conservatives Party to demand that gay publications start publishing stories about heterosexual weddings in the name of equality. Read the article  

Richard Hedger on Same-Sex Parenting: This is just the beginning

The Guardian

We loved this story about former OUTinPerth photographer Richard Hedger and his family. In the story Richard talks about the never-ending paperwork challenges faced by families which have two Dads. Read the article

This is a column I did not want to write

Sydney Morning Herald

Catherine McGregor shares her thought on Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s dismissive comments about transgender youth.

“As the centre right of Australian politics disintegrates and trawls for the votes of evangelical Christians and atheist nationalists, trans people provide a rich source of demonology to forge a coalition of the pious, the viscous and brittle men emasculated by globalisation.” Read the article

OIP Staff